Log to Lumber - How American Lumber is Made

[@sondangthai4885]

Watching this process reminds me of a friend who spent his whole life working in lumber mills. When his father passed, he took over the family business, cutting and shaping wood that would eventually build homes. One day, while working on a special project, he paused, ran his hand over a piece of wood, and whispered, 'This is for you, Dad.' His connection to every piece of timber was more than just work-it was a tribute to family and legacy.

[@lucass9328]

As someone who's been working in a sawmill for the past 4 months, this is exactly what I was hoping to see, thanks!

[@someasiandude4797]

It must be unreal sitting next to a river and watch a unending stream of logs float by

[@RandyStalding]

Not so much these days. Very few log rafts are needed today because you have to use log trucks to get the logs from the woods to the river. The lumber mills are usually located next to the river anyway. We export a lot of timber products using the river. We remember those days of log rafts. My father-in-law used to wear "corked" boots to work the log rafts. Corked boots have their soles covered in short steel spikes so as to not slip on the logs as you walk across the rafts..

[@WoodworkWhispers]

Remarkable! I was thoroughly impressed by the sawmilling techniques shown. It's fascinating to see the detailed work involved in sawmilling. The clarity and detail in this video are outstanding. I can't wait for your next video. Continue sharing these amazing videos!

[@Kobeheeley]

great content, thanks for the information 😁

[@JacksonJongsma]

Yes i found this film quite enjoyable, splendid to see someone else thinks the same.🤗

[@SawmillJourneys]

Amazing! I love seeing the transformation from logs to lumber. The way the logs are cut with precision is impressive. This video taught me a lot about wood processing. Looking forward to more content like this. Please keep sharing these awesome videos!

[@BigMachines-j3m]

Exceptional!

[@stevenikitas8170]

I have been saying for many years that the entire global energy supply can be gotten from wood. The world's forests are 4 times the size of the United States, including Alaska. If you only used one of those forests, and harvested it in sustainable ways, the world could use wood as its primary energy source while only harvesting 1% of the trees. Wood is just like coal. It has been used for thousands of years as a heating element for both residential and commercial purposes. Not only can wood be burned directly in power plants, industrial applications and for home heating (chips or pellets), but it can be used to produce methanol fuel (alcohol fuel). This is done by putting wood (like sawdust or chips) in water, boiling the water and then drawing off the liquid, which has absorbed chemicals from the wood (just like making whiskey from corn). The leftover wood then can be dried and burned as fuel. Methanol can be used as heating fuel or to power automobiles.

[@cattleNhay]

Hemp would be much more efficient, grows hundreds of times faster and bio diesel can be made from seeds..paper, clothing and 50´000 other products. Everyone could sustain themselves with energy needs on just a few acres..but a few rich people would loose billions so that will never happen.

[@hollyedwards4789]

Hemp is batter then trees for what you are talking about

[@spiritus-scriba693.]

Energy is all around us. Free energy re: Nikola Tesla here soon.

[@alanburke1893]

Study the economics behind Drax in the UK... only sustainable due to massive government subsidies and importation of wood pellets from US. Neither economical nor ecological.... just a clever short-term accounting trick

[@hemachandramanamperi5450]

Thanks, Steven - Herein Sri Lanka sawdust is used as a base material for composting animal dung.Any way saw dust from trees containing resins ie pine wood cannot be used.

[@WoodworkWhispers]

Outstanding! I was thoroughly impressed by the sawmilling techniques shown. The skill displayed in processing these huge logs is amazing. This video is extremely clear and well-made. Looking forward to more of your excellent content. Keep producing such fantastic content!

[@SawdustStories-ny]

Remarkable! This video gave me a new perspective on sawmilling. It's fascinating to see the detailed work involved in sawmilling. This video is extremely clear and well-made. Looking forward to more of your excellent content. Keep producing such fantastic content!

[@WoodworkWhispers]

Exceptional! I was thoroughly impressed by the sawmilling techniques shown. Watching those giant logs being handled with such precision is captivating. The video quality is top-notch. I'm excited to see what you share next. Continue sharing these amazing videos!

[@ChainsawChronicles-1]

Chainsaw engineering has come so far-amazing to watch!

[@SawdustStories-ny]

Superb! I learned a great deal from this video. Seeing those enormous logs being precisely cut is amazing. This video is exceptionally clear and well-produced. Eagerly anticipating more of your content. Keep up the excellent work!

[@caseymurphy244]

A big supporter of the Timber industry. Had 12 year's in a Plywood plant in Montana. But damn what a tough way to make a living. And honestly doesn't pay that well. Im a janitor now working at a local university. The particle board plant in my hometown start workers out only about $2 an hour more than Im making. Developed carpal tunnel and rotary cuff issues from the mill also.

[@佯谬]

你被资本家剥削了。

[@clausbuhlsrensen602]

In Europe, the rule is the bigger the company, the bigger the pay. Big capital intensive companies, as rule has wages as a small part of the overall costs. One man at strike, could cost millions of dollars.

[@caseymurphy244]

@@clausbuhlsrensen602 update on that particle board plant in my hometown. Shut down the beginning of Summer. My neighbor lost a $90k year job As their purchasing manager. Won't be able to replace that here in Missoula.

[@sondangthai4885]

Sounds like you’ve put in some serious hard work over the years. Respect for your dedication, both in the timber industry and now at the university. Hope you're able to take care of those injuries-tough jobs leave their mark in more ways than one.

[@И.В-ю4ы]

It's like a good old edcuational video from 1980s. Great!

[@TheHarvestTV-us]

My father has done that job for decades. Now he has retired

[@WoodworkWhispers]

Outstanding! I learned so much from this informative video. It's fascinating to see the detailed work involved in sawmilling. The video quality is top-notch. Looking forward to more of your excellent content. Continue sharing these amazing videos!

[@hemachandramanamperi5450]

From Sri Lanka - Educative video especially showing how to fell a tree in the required direction. Thanks.

[@OBKS68]

I appreciate the focus on sustainability in lumber production. How do mills ensure that they are sourcing wood responsibly?

[@williamhuber7423]

Where is the replanting in the process?

[@HubertofLiege]

After logging in the spring

[@TronVila]

This video is all staged. They replant before they remove a single tree. It chokes out the forest and the trees they want die and fall over. Then the loggers give the fallen trees gentle hugs and they float out of the forest if the chosen trees identify as lumber in the afterlife. We never assume the gender of a fallen tree.

[@swagtech_]

6:15 American lumber is produced quite well 😍

[@ketchupgamin969]

Im doing a research project into sawmills, my biggest question is how you get all of those logs out of the water. Is it trough ramps or cranes or other methods?

[@davidbowden8362]

Clear and precise, subscribed.

[@Goranggareng18]

trimaksih boss 🙏

[@dennisfeero6965]

It is kind of fun to see how things were done 50 years ago in the lumber industry. Do you have any video of modern equipment and methods?

[@hollyedwards4789]

We still do it like this in most places around the world in 2024 not much has changed in the logging industry

[@RandyStalding]

If you visit the Pacific Northwest of the US, you may notice homes built with three-car garages. Two of the garage doors are of the standard size and one is much higher. The high door is for a logging truck. Many people have one or more logging trucks to use in their independent log trucking business. In our community we have many mills. Three to cut logs into lumber and three make paper products. A young man can't grow up in our community without having spent some time working in these mills. It's sort of a right of passage.

[@AnySawTVG]

I love woodworking ❤❤❤

[@Donatenajavavt2]

Satisfying.

[@rat8356]

those firewood brick are better than firewood anyday!!..low moisture content around 7-10%..burn and heat amazing!..only problem is most places want 300-400$ a ton/pallet of them and i would burn about 6 pallets a winter..they are hard to move around and unload and restack and availability is bad..i may as well burn fuel oil for the price and work of them

[@davefoc]

When was this video made? Transporting logs on streams or rivers was almost entirely ended in the 70's because of the environmental impact on the rivers. I suspect the vast majority of lumber for timber is cut down by large machines that also strip the lumber.

[@leendert16]

I am missing the section of replanting the forest..

[@nadeemmustafa6450]

Informative video

[@Angkertvg]

Amazeng❤🥰🙏👍

[@josuemirandadeoliveira8324]

Parabéns ótimo vídeo sobre manejo florestal!

[@frankmorgan2772]

MAs quando os brasileiros comecam a fazer um "manejo florestal" na regiao amazonica.....eles gritam e protestam, as ONGs recebem malas$$$$ para criar narrativas de criminosos agricultores, enquanto os americanos e canadians derrubam milhoes de arvores nas suas florestas !!! Eu sei que muitas dessas arvores sao reflorestamento, mas as grandes, centenarias arvores nao , sao florestas nativas sendo derrubadas !!

[@lolomsitlhou9343]

Intresting

[@BigMachines-j3m]

It is kind of fun to see how things were done 50 years ago in the lumber industry. Do you have any video of modern equipment and methods?

[@michaelarnold9445]

How is cut😮

[@frankanddanasnyder3272]

Don't believe 70% was wasted, I believe you inverted your statistic...only 30% was wasted!

[@Goranggareng18]

trimakSih boss 🙏

[@SENOL_um]

👍👍👍

[@heningviolin]

It cannot be denied that the needs of life and natural disasters always go hand in hand. Until later when this earth is swallowed into human stomachs. There is no need to mourn and regret the consequences.

[@jasoneverett]

In the intricate tapestry of existence, an inexorable intertwining of life's exigencies and the capricious whims of natural cataclysms becomes manifest. One cannot gainsay the symbiotic dance between the imperatives of survival and the capricious orchestrations of terrestrial upheavals. A temporal trajectory unfolds, envisaging a future epoch wherein this terrestrial orb, in its cosmic fate, succumbs to the engulfing maw of humanity's alimentary pursuits. Amidst this cosmic spectacle, a chorus of existential tribulations may arise, yet there exists a resolute injunction against the lamentation and rueful retrospection of the resultant repercussions. In the intricate calculus of cosmic choreography, the nexus of necessity and calamity persists as an enigmatic tableau, inviting contemplation without the pallor of remorse.

[@chrisball7335]

Seedless trees make seedless people

[@paulcookies]

That looks like a good job but a bit dangerous I think

[@AnaseNazy]

Hello sir, I am a craftsman in the field of tree cutting and automatic saw maintenance. I am looking for work. Can I find work with your team? I am from Morocco.

[@carloscarlinhos2940]

Top

[@BigMachines-j3m]

Amazeng❤🥰🙏👍

[@vicenteviloria487]

they cut trees too good DO they plant trees too ?

[@fasx56]

487 Depending on the State Laws where the logging is going on there are tree re- planting in logged areas and in areas where Forest Fires have burned large areas. Tree planting in logged areas started back in the 1950s .

[@bobshagit]

its shipped in from Canada lol

[@jamescampbell7780]

Is that a computerised commentary?

[@steventurner8428]

I always though lumber was grown as trees, apparently in America it's made Amazing!!

[@TronVila]

Trees are grown. Lumber is made, from trees. “I always thought lumber was grown as trees” bud be safe out there, your brain isn’t firing on all cylinders

[@MayaLarson58]

@@TronVilabuddy. Don’t be rude its not like you know everything

[@KeithSage]

What kind of horsepower are in your trucks?

[@knotbumper]

450-600 HP for highway trucks, up to 1000 HP for off highway trucks

[@larrylefebvre2237]

Skidders not skitters.

[@MatthysJohannesSmit-t3m]

Better known as skidsteers here by us in south africa

[@benji-tintin]

👍🏿

[@texanleons]

Too bad my 2x4's are crooked and warped and even chewed up by machines.

[@edwardcarberry1095]

The Miss Noomer of """' Fossil Fuel """ is Really that what comes from the earth as it makes / produces it! So Never has been a shortage of Mineral oil. Just the Greed of needing to make more.

[@Goranggareng18]

pohonya besar besar ya boss

[@clarencetrice4442]

IVE seen some lumber that was terrible it had bowed and twist it didnt dry like it shouldve 2 green or it was from a bad log 😮😮 when U look down a peace ✌😊 of lumber it should be straight just like string line or chalk line both sides top and bottom there shouldnt be no bows ir twists either it wont stay straight and nails 💅 wont do much 2 keep lumber like that straight 😮😮 and the last time I seen lumber like that at a store U had 2 go through it and see if U could U could get enough 2 make a dog 🐶 😊 house the rest wasnt even fit 2 make a dog house much less anything else 😮😮 I shook my head and said lumber like that isnt fit 2 be in a store like that there was no helping that lost cause 😊😊 OMG 1O 26 2O23

[@MRALBERT571]

A lot of the crooked lumber is from the heart of the tree the best lumber is the outside of tree, the sap wood. In a lot of trees that would be the white or lighter colored wood if i remember right.

[@barnacles62]

America is the most wasteful country in the world for wood as well as other resources. We will tear down and build again in as little as 10 years, just to satisfy ignorance of things like "it`s outdated", "it's to small", "it's not the style I want" and so much more. When suburbia began, and it was dubbed the American dream, families of 4 to 5 lived in 900 to 1200 sq ft homes,1200 being big. Now days, the same average family has to have 1900 to 2500 sq ft, and even more. There are all sorts of excuses they dub as reasons why, but before that even starts, just remember several Native Americans lived in Tepees a lot smaller, and were content, so what's your excuse? The whole American consumerism is an addiction, and like any addiction, there is denial and rationalization over the reality behind the problem. Its nauseating to hear these people that make entirely more money than they have sense go on about how they have to have space. It`s in their heads, its wasteful, selfish and needs to be controlled. I have done virtual home tours through modern homes 250.000 to 400.000. Closets in some of these homes are bigger than average living rooms. Entirely narcissistic to feel you need that. The amount of wasted resources to build that is redundant. If mankind could ever learn that simple surviving and spiritual fulfilment is all that's necessary, we would be a better world. But the emotional fears of humanity keep driving it to doom itself, in Americas case the way average people are merited in status is monetary and materialistic achievements, the more the higher in the social respect you earn. It's not about how well you achieve; it's about how well you maintain. Not just for yourself, but all around you. Addicts love to rationalize reality to fit their own narrative, they believe their own lies, then get hostile and defensive when someone else doesn't. Achievement is necessary to maintain in life, but to what degree that's done is entirely controlled. If you deem the need to have any more than you need you need to assess your morals and ethics. Don't confuse arrogance with wisdom, denial and rationalization will make over achievers think they are smarter than others. It's a lie you made yourself believe, you're not mentally healthy....

[@dm55]

How American Lumber are Made How American education has failed.

[@Goranggareng18]

trimakSih bosss 🙏

[@PiotrPaszko-s8w]

And in to food!!!!!!!!!!!!!¡!!?

[@BigMachines-j3m]

Christmas Tree growers Funds? 🎄🎄🎄?$🤳$

[@jonathanthornton9413]

first scene of sawmill loading logs on a container going to China!!! Should not be allowed!

[@kanchanamuralidhar8531]

Christmas Tree growers Funds? 🎄🎄🎄?$🤳$

[@carmiethompson2676]

Hey FLT; the Lumber Industry doesn't do anything that doesn't generate an income. Your 'environmentally friendly' shows how deaf you are. What is the advantage of wood pellets or blocks compared to fossil fuels...ZERO! It's still a burning practice that releases CO2 into the atmosphere. It's only advantage is the local availability of the product & ease of transport. It's not the Lumber Industry job to be 'Eco-Friendly'; it's to make a profit & that's done by reducing waste as much as possible. Using what's available & finding a market for the product or waste product. This is Capitalism, not climate change making everyone fearful of nothing.

[@peterlukac6850]

And this is how our forests disappear !!!!!

[@eddiekulp1241]

Waste nothing now

[@lauriemckay7089]

100 years , gone in minutes along with the oxygen it creates, You are with evil intentions,

[@chrisball7335]

Take all of the seedless trees thanks nobody wants them

[@snydedon9636]

How American wood is made? We ship the logs to Canada, they do all the milling and ship the finished lumber back to America. We don’t do $hit in America anymore. Shame on US.

[@BigMachines-j3m]

And this is how our forests disappear !!!!!

[@ratratrat59]

This AI crap sucks

[@ChristLink-Channel]

How lumber "are" made? Seriously? Maybe you should by a book on English grammar...

[@HubertofLiege]

Buy

[@joehallstrom9568]

Buy

[@Ante-m5g]

Os maiores destruidores da natureza virgem...

[@josuemirandadeoliveira8324]

É de área reflorestada,tu não viu que é floresta homogênea,nada de floresta nativa kkkkk

[@วิชัยปอขุน]

ไม้เอามาจะสายคอนลานตำรวจติตามจะตัวด่วน

[@derekshaw144]

This man who narrates sounds like something off the x files

[@williamfleaher5834]

I was once a lumber man!! Did not like plastic straps holding units together!! Canfor thar good buddy!!!🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫

[@Goranggareng18]

trimakasih boss 🙏🙏

[@WoodworkWhispers]

Exceptional! This video gave me a new perspective on sawmilling. It's fascinating to see the detailed work involved in sawmilling. This video is extremely clear and well-made. I can't wait for your next video. Keep up the superb work!

[@เทพเทพเทพ-ด2ฒ]

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