Prime Sawmill Last Day

Last day of production at Prime Sawmill Gisborne New Zealand. OVer 60 jobs lost when the gates were shut at Christmas 2010

[@phillipthornton4578]

Great video! Thanks for sharing. It's cool to see how forestry is down around the globe. I work for a timber company in Georgia, USA and these Radiata pine saw logs make our longleaf/loblolly saw logs look like toothpicks!

[@MrThisIsMeToo]

Great video of a real sawmill in action. Thanks for sharing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@shedasaurus]

thanks mate, it was hard to recognise without the bark, good size logs

[@hedonic10277]

thanks for uploading mate i was always interested in what process the timber went threw before it was sold as planks etc..

[@advocatevinodsharma6956]

nice video. Best for the students who are going to pursue their career in wood manufacturing strand.

[@joeparkes828]

great vid guys brought back a shitload of memories for this old dude

[@garynz345]

@pit4life03 hey, would do about 230m3 in a 8-9 hour run, not the fasted around now but not bad for head rig type mill from the mid 1980's

[@garynz345]

@MrDeanuddin Cheers, there are some better mills around, not many on youtube, but this place was great to work for!!

[@garynz345]

radiata pine is what was cut at this plant most the time.

[@MrDeanuddin]

This is the best saw mill that I have ever seen. Thanks mate.

[@shedasaurus]

what type of timber is that? thanks for posting

[@imgwannakickbooty]

McDonough headsaw? If so i used to run one. Sawmill work is tough, dirty work and the business tends to the crooked side...IME.

[@pit4life03]

hey awesome video man, how much cube per day did she put out?

[@ashlaygrant9076]

Round about 280m3 my dad was the head rig operator

[@ashlaygrant9076]

In a 8hr shift

[@garynz345]

@youusedmyname hey cheers, yeah bit sad for the guys with families to support, thought some people might like to see how a mid 1980s saw mill works. cheers

[@wrekstacy]

Hey man, how much board feet do you guys put out in a shift. I work at a sawmill in Ontario and we usually do 400,000 in 11 hours. We have a much different process tho.

[@wax333]

do you do Lvl ? or just core wood?

[@richardgrumpywelsh2485]

It is too bad that the plant closed, but all good things have to come to an end sometime

[@garynz345]

Richard *Grumpy* Welsh hey mate, i believe someone has bought it and fired back up in the last couple of months

[@richardgrumpywelsh2485]

Glad to hear that the plant may be back in operation, it would be a shame to let all of thoes fine logs go to waste, thanks for keeping me informed

[@rdmccun]

lots of maintenance workers around there? so many moving parts

[@IzKavvvy]

mean for missing the table

[@garynz345]

Could you blame the crew on their last day? Luckily this mill was sold and is back up and running, they been back running over a year now I think, taking on a second crew is the plan from the news paper reports. Cheers!!

[@IzKavvvy]

garynz345 yeah mate mills up and running I’m in the mill and wanted to see who was on the table way back then

[@IzKavvvy]

garynz345 I’m talking about the table hands outside pulling the wood off, would’ve been cool to see that

[@garynz345]

Yes I understand now sorry, I didn't even realise that was not on this clip. The boys on the table worked hard, I remember being on a night shift there and it was a massive southerly blowing through with so much rain and wind they shut the mill down because it wasn't fair on guys on the table

[@IzKavvvy]

garynz345 yeah bro I’ve been down there on some days where the southerly and rain are pounding, all apart of the fun though lol cheers bro

[@hacidemirdemsanmakinasanay9518]

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[@cluideman]

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[@christopherlovelock9104]

Far too much waste, - unless the buyers only want certain sizes. Why couldn't the big chips be made into 'pressed board'.? If 60+ jobs were lost where were the workers - I only saw 1 in the entire video - oops sorry 2.

[@dylanslee9956]

this dude obviously has never worked in a mill

[@garynz345]

When filming the intention was to not include too many people as the emphasis was the machinery and operation. There are many people involved in milling, not to mention the forestry side of it. This plant was not a large operation by today's milling standards. As for the waste, yes customers want precise sizes most of the time, there are some that dont require exact sizing but usually that is if the wood will be re manufactured. The waste off cuts are chipped and turned into pulp to make paper. In output based milling you will find only 50-60% of a log is turned into lumber and the rest is chipped with the remaining sawdust usually used to fire Boilers and Furnaces to heat kilns where the lumber is then dried. There is very little 'waste' as in unused parts of the log.

[@garynz345]

would say so!!

[@netekarina]

Christopher Lovelock

[@christopherlovelock9104]

This 'dude' has worked in a mill - (not as modern as this granted), and I also worked on the forestry for a couple of years before that.