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  • Опубликовано: 27 ноя 2024

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  • @johnmcgarvie4061
    @johnmcgarvie4061 Месяц назад +40

    One night in 1971 or 1972 I was tailing the headrig at a large softwood mill in southern British Columbia when the sawyer hit a rock that was fist sized. All holy hell broke loose. The bandsaw (8 foot single cut) broke up into many pieces. Besides scaring the crap out of myself, the sawyer and the edgerman an airline on the carriage was cut, the top and bottom guides were wrecked and an electrical line on the carriage was also cut. The sawyer was so badly shaken he went home. The edgerman also called it a night too. I sawed for the rest of the shift. The foreman tailsawed for me as he couldn't saw if his life depended on it. One of the shift millwright ran the bull edger. Living proof that sawmills have the potential to be widow-makers.

    • @TheWildWestMill
      @TheWildWestMill  Месяц назад +5

      That’s a great story. I’ve heard off all kinds of things hit. Horseshoes T fence posts. A shotgun trees grow around all kinds of things There’s a cool tree in my area the took a small sapling and makes it grow around an old spoke car rim it’s very cool looking

    • @TheWildWestMill
      @TheWildWestMill  Месяц назад +8

      When I first started sawing about 4 years ago the carriage got away from me. I was trying to go too fast and I was in experienced the carriage hit the bump stops at end of track. Went off the track crashed through the fence and was on its back wheels up in the air. I was so scared thought I would be fired for sure but we got it back up on the track in about 3 hours with actually no damage I was super lucky 🍀

    • @johnmcgarvie4061
      @johnmcgarvie4061 Месяц назад +5

      @@TheWildWestMill Great story. Would have loved to see the carriage wheels up! LOL! When I was 15 (I am now 71) I worked after school for 2 hours at a small mill that cut 30,000 fbm of Doug Fir a day. One shift no nights. The foreman paid me $3 out of his pocket for my labor. One day he asked me to tail the edger as the regular tailer had a doctor appointment. Toward the end of the day the tail sawyer got into a bind and the sawyer(not the regular guy)reversed the carriage so hard it overran the bumper stops (two coil springs), across a wooden walkway, and thru the back wall to end up on the power unit after it's roof was destroyed. The power unit was an all electric amplydine drive. It took the whole crew (10 guys), foreman, and the two loader operators two hours to get the carriage back into the mill and on the tracks. Good thing this happened on a Friday as it took the foreman and a millwright 10 hours on Saturday to repair the damage to the carriage, carriage run and stops, walkway, wall and drive unit. Crazy but true. Like i I said before ,mills are a dangerous place to work. Footnote: foreman paid me $10 for my sweat. Cigarettes were 40 cents out of the vending machine in the lobby at the local watering hole. My bootlegger charged me $2 for a six pak of beer.

    • @TheWildWestMill
      @TheWildWestMill  Месяц назад +3

      @@johnmcgarvie4061 yes sir it was quite the site that carriage laying upside down wheels up in the air. Absolutely most people don’t understand how fast somthing can go wrong in a sawmill. Or out in the bush cutting g trees We order in big blocks of Douglas fir from out west and resaw to whatever the customers wants That’s sounds like a time when tings were easier to buy. Now everything is so expensive it’s a wonder anyone can live Thanks for the wonderful story I enjoyed it very much

    • @johnmcgarvie4061
      @johnmcgarvie4061 Месяц назад +3

      @@TheWildWestMill Here is another story: A friend of mine tailed the headrig at a sawmill in Youbou on Vancouver Island. Sawyer there hit a cannonball that was buried in a 7 foot Hemlock butt log. Again the shit hit the fan. The cannonball came from the Spanish Armada when they visited the West Coast way back when Show how the tree will grow arounf foreign objects. Stay safe as I have seen the good, the bad, the ugly, and the real f'ing ugly in my years sucking up sawdust.

  • @RANDOMNATION907
    @RANDOMNATION907 2 дня назад +1

    What a fascinating machine.

  • @redwolf230
    @redwolf230 9 дней назад +3

    Im sending out an sos. Love it classic rock rules!

  • @markkover8040
    @markkover8040 18 дней назад +8

    Worked at a sawmill in North Idaho back in the early 80's. It was a chip and saw rig that could handle logs up to three feet in diameter. Computer controlled to get the best value out of each log. I forget how many bandsaws it had to it. I worked clean-up/utility.
    There were all kinds of metal detectors on the log decks to pick up any metal objects before the logs went into chip and saw. Rocks were another thing. It was rare, but when they did get into saws, they'd cause the blades to explode. Everything in and around the saws was protected from such explosions. The mill would shut down for as long as two hours for clean up and repairs. The walls would be covered with pieces of the saw blades. If anyone had been in the room they would have been cut to pieces.

    • @TheWildWestMill
      @TheWildWestMill  18 дней назад +1

      Wow that is a great story thanks for sharing. We had a saw hot a pc of steel in a log once. All the sawbits and shanks blew outta the saw and went all over the the mill. So 44 sawbits and 44 shanks I’m really glad no one got hurt it could of been really bad

    • @markkover8040
      @markkover8040 17 дней назад

      ​@@TheWildWestMill We had three cut off saws and two debarkers outside the main building that prepped the logs before they went into the mill. The saws were on swinging arms. The blades were about the same size as yours. The saw sharpeners kept a close eye on them. Typically, the worst that would happen with them was a hydraulic line breaking. The saw would be left swinging free. The saw operator would shut it down ASAP. As you can well imagine, hydraulic fluid would go everywhere, making the nearby area slick as hell. Sawdust was used to absorb the fluid. The millwrights had it down to where they could fix it within 30 minutes. We had two feeds going into the mill so one saw being down didn't slow operations too much. It would give the people on the green chain a bit of a break.
      The worse accident we had was during Christmas downtime (the mill was closed from Christmas to January 2nd) when the millwrights did overhauls.
      Somehow, a worker got pulled into the chip and saw while it was being tested. In less than a second, there wasn't anything left of him. I forget how long the mill was shutdown after that.
      When we returned, all of the plexiglass and plywood on the walls and floor had been replaced. Two of the millwrights who had been working when the incident occurred quit. All kinds of new automatic shut off devices were installed.
      We knew what we did was dangerous before, but after that, everyone became hyper vigilant, and management didn't mind.

    • @TheWildWestMill
      @TheWildWestMill  17 дней назад +1

      @ that’s terrible that something like that happened but some people will not learn until really bad things happen in hindsight sight I should of kicked the log off once I hit steel the first time but fence and nails aren’t really a problem it’s the larger stuff I gambled and was wrong. Not the price of sawbits have tripled in the past few months so now when there is Steel the log won’t be attempted to be sawed anymore. Thanks for telling that amazing story we appreciate the comment thank you

    • @markkover8040
      @markkover8040 17 дней назад

      @@TheWildWestMill Metal getting into saws is scary as hell. I'm surprised you don't have metal detectors. I've heard of chippers exploding from metal embedded in wood. The photos of the aftermath are shocking. It literally looks like a bomb went off.
      It's a dangerous industry. Be safe out there.
      BTW, your videos are informative. Few people know what goes on in sawmills.

    • @TheWildWestMill
      @TheWildWestMill  17 дней назад +1

      @ we don’t have a metal detector for logs but we do at the chipper. Also as a head sawyer I can hear from in the cab even hitting a super small pc of steel just from doing it for years so I will stop and tell the tailer to not send it out to the chipper they saw just makes a different sound. Just like in your car you know how it is supposed to to sound Thank you for the kind words I really try to understand ever aspect of my job I’m also the lead hand as well as head sawyer so I am very involved in what’s going on day to day. If you have a suggestions to make me better at what I do or things you would like to see just let me know. Thanks for commenting I appreciate everyone who takes the time to comment and is respectful

  • @thomasm9384
    @thomasm9384 12 минут назад

    Northern Michigan pallet mills look nothing like this! Nice set up.

  • @Marc-x9i
    @Marc-x9i 2 дня назад

    Sweet video I see you tried to cut out the steel. But then found more that’s too bad. That’s how it goes sometimes

  • @Thedaleb1
    @Thedaleb1 24 дня назад +12

    That saw is just like my tablesaw but different

  • @christianworthinton8000
    @christianworthinton8000 11 дней назад +2

    Natural resources at it's finest. This job would send me to sleep...😊

    • @TheWildWestMill
      @TheWildWestMill  11 дней назад +1

      Sometime is does get very boring. The big logs are fun to saw

    • @christianworthinton8000
      @christianworthinton8000 10 дней назад +1

      I meant the sound and rhythm.Pure music.👍

    • @TheWildWestMill
      @TheWildWestMill  10 дней назад

      I’ve been asked to make hour long videos of just sawing which I have done and some just loop it and let it play to help them sleep at night

    • @big_beak
      @big_beak 9 дней назад

      ​@@TheWildWestMillSawing logs to help some people saw some logs? 😉

    • @TheWildWestMill
      @TheWildWestMill  9 дней назад +1

      @ actually some like the longer videos they say it helps them sleep

  • @jimdickenson6600
    @jimdickenson6600 6 дней назад

    Very nice automation - relaxing to watch :)

  • @mrobviuos74
    @mrobviuos74 5 дней назад

    That was huge explosion!

  • @Bobbycat115
    @Bobbycat115 Месяц назад +11

    I am in BC and my Neighbour had a 6 foot Dia Maple in his yard we took it down
    I was bucking the butt that was 20 feet long with a big 4 part crotch well about
    3 feet Down from the crotch I hit something in the center It ripped my new chain
    to shreds %$#@*&)#@! New chain 60 inch for my 394XP Husky .I moved 6 inches
    down and Bang same thing again &%#)(*^&^%$@#$% Well after many cuts I found
    a pile of Bricks had grown into the tree .My Neighbour said he was throwing bricks
    at the Racoons living in the tree and that was 68 years ago when he was 10 Y/O
    45 years of Logging the west coast that was a First .

    • @TheWildWestMill
      @TheWildWestMill  Месяц назад +4

      I have a similar story neighbor had a big pine it was being cut down by t everytime went to bore in and cut the heart out kept hitting somthing that would kick that would kick the saw out kept wrecking chains we finally got the tree to come down and break off well to find out the tree had grown around one of those T fence posts. It was right in the heart Trees are so resilient

    • @HSkraekelig
      @HSkraekelig 21 день назад

      @@TheWildWestMill Same. A Manitoba Maple on the edge of my property came down in an ice storm a couple of years ago. Town crew was cutting it up and hit a steel fence post in the bottom 4-6 feet. They had to haul it away in one piece.

    • @TheWildWestMill
      @TheWildWestMill  21 день назад

      @HSkraekelig it’s really crazy what will grow into trees. I’ve heard if you want to kill a tree. Pound a couple copper nails into the trunk right where the roots meet. But I don’t know how true that is lol

  • @Railfan6675
    @Railfan6675 Месяц назад +4

    I expect that saw will need a few new inserts in it now!

    • @TheWildWestMill
      @TheWildWestMill  Месяц назад +12

      It was no too bad changed 17 sawbits and was back sawing in 10 minutes Carbide teeth are very strong I can normally hit fence and keep going. But those ardox nails and insulators cause problem. The worst I hit so far was a horseshoe

  • @peashooterc9475
    @peashooterc9475 26 дней назад +2

    I worked at a mill in NH in the '80's. Nails and lead buckshot were a constant menace. One day they hit a potato digger that had been laid against the tree years ago. Cleaned off a couple of shoulders from the circular saw.

    • @TheWildWestMill
      @TheWildWestMill  26 дней назад

      Ya we find all kinds of crazy stuff. I got a short video I broke a dog then cut it destroyed the saw. 20 broken shoulders

    • @TheWildWestMill
      @TheWildWestMill  26 дней назад +1

      Scrap metal now

    • @TheWildWestMill
      @TheWildWestMill  26 дней назад +2

      Just found out today Simmonds raised the price of their carbide sawbits from. 3.50 each to 10.20 so at that price I need to be much more careful with metal in the logs as soon as I hit the log comes off doesn’t matter how much is left. Not at that price it’s honestly insane

  • @stephenvale2624
    @stephenvale2624 6 дней назад

    I use a lot of salvage wood (which i call road kill lumber). After pressure washing i always eyeball it closely and check all four sides with a metal detector.
    So far, been lucky and only lost one tablesaw blade to an inclusion. And THAT inclusion was a piece of cast iron sandwiched into a friggin piece of otherwise innocent looking, brand new, store bought, virgin plywood!!!

  • @patkyne5534
    @patkyne5534 Месяц назад

    Hi,Don’t need to many adventures like this Cheers 👍😃

    • @TheWildWestMill
      @TheWildWestMill  Месяц назад +1

      Hopefully not but next week starting Monday will be more of the same I’m sure lol

  • @Rokstardad82
    @Rokstardad82 6 дней назад

    Not sure why this was recommended to me lol but glad it was! Is that cnc? Or do you manually change feed and measurements on the fly? I machine metal but this is cool as hell to watch 👍

    • @TheWildWestMill
      @TheWildWestMill  6 дней назад +2

      Yes I do all that there’s no computers or anything just hyd. It’s a 40 year old mill. Still good technology for 40 years ago lol

  • @Pamudder
    @Pamudder 6 дней назад

    I am surprised that the sawyer continued to cut the log after seeing metal. I would have thought that the possible damage to the mill would have exceeded the value of the tree.

    • @TheWildWestMill
      @TheWildWestMill  6 дней назад

      There was no real damage to speak of sawed through much worse than that before

  • @f.k.burnham8491
    @f.k.burnham8491 13 дней назад

    I had a faller come in and cut a tree right where the addition was to be added to the house. (I didn't trust my own skills at that time). It was an old growth that had schoolmarmed out 30' up.
    I went to buck it up, and found an entire brake drum & hub assy (Model A?) embedded in the crotch.. Still wonder how the heck it got 30' up there.

    • @TheWildWestMill
      @TheWildWestMill  13 дней назад

      It’s really amazing what will grow into trees. We find all kinds of stuff Model
      A. Probably worth money that stuff would be today lol

  • @HSkraekelig
    @HSkraekelig 21 день назад +10

    That was mean. I was on pins and needles the whole time, waiting for a massive bang and a wrecked blade. Kind of anticlimactic in the end.

    • @TheWildWestMill
      @TheWildWestMill  21 день назад +2

      Ya next time I will get the wrecked blade in there. I was more worried about getting back sawing. Sorry

  • @farmhandluke5182
    @farmhandluke5182 24 дня назад +1

    Thanks for sharing your work day! That blade sure can cut some wood! What rpm does it run at?

    • @TheWildWestMill
      @TheWildWestMill  24 дня назад +1

      Around 550 rpm It’s 150hp electric motor that runs it. Thanks for watching

  • @patthefireman100
    @patthefireman100 25 дней назад +2

    are we just gonna ignore karma police is playing in the booth!!!!!!

    • @TheWildWestMill
      @TheWildWestMill  25 дней назад +1

      lol is that really what song is playing I can barely hear it

  • @HayChaffandSawdust1
    @HayChaffandSawdust1 Месяц назад +2

    The headsaw is one thing, but how do you avoid damage on the resawing operation down the line? Just curious.

    • @TheWildWestMill
      @TheWildWestMill  Месяц назад +3

      Anything with steel is marked by the grader and is cut out by the cutoff saw that is before the gangsaw

  • @Osceola36dd
    @Osceola36dd Месяц назад +2

    You adjust for taper with the log dogs I see. New one for me. I thought the whole knee moved.

    • @TheWildWestMill
      @TheWildWestMill  Месяц назад +2

      It is different most carriages aren’t like that

    • @TheWildWestMill
      @TheWildWestMill  Месяц назад +1

      The only problem is I can only taper 4” and with the crooked stuff I cut sometimes 4” isn’t enough. But we make it work

    • @Osceola36dd
      @Osceola36dd Месяц назад

      @@TheWildWestMill It's quicker to use than most but I understand that it is a problem only having the limited movement

    • @TheWildWestMill
      @TheWildWestMill  Месяц назад

      @Osceola36dd there is an upgrade for this carriage an 8” taper but need longer cylinders and longer dogs if there was an opportunity to get a new carriage. Which someday we will I would get that upgrade along with a master dog and log leveler

  • @davidphilpott6606
    @davidphilpott6606 Месяц назад +4

    Ouch!

    • @TheWildWestMill
      @TheWildWestMill  Месяц назад +1

      Normally what happens with spruce. I’ll hit in a long change sawbits and sharpen and it will happen again this was right at end of the day so we will see what Monday morning is like

  • @jeffreyyoung4104
    @jeffreyyoung4104 11 дней назад

    I was hoping to see the insulator, was it a ceramic one that got nailed to the tree?

    • @TheWildWestMill
      @TheWildWestMill  11 дней назад

      Yes it was sorry next time I will be sure to show it. I just didn’t have time to run all around with the camera we were having a bad day already I’ve gotten many complaints about this

  • @thepubliceye
    @thepubliceye 14 дней назад

    That wood looks almost rotten.

  • @Moonlight0551
    @Moonlight0551 2 дня назад

    Why don't they go with metric. Two and seven eighths! Geez.

    • @TheWildWestMill
      @TheWildWestMill  2 дня назад

      Who knows but that’s what we do easy for us cuz been doing it all our life lol So what is that 73 mm

  • @rebekahfrench5747
    @rebekahfrench5747 22 дня назад +5

    Could have included the aftermath.. Boring AF ..

    • @TheWildWestMill
      @TheWildWestMill  22 дня назад +2

      I can’t video everything It’s a production sawmill There’s no money being made if the saw isn’t running. Sorry for the disappointment

    • @rebekahfrench5747
      @rebekahfrench5747 22 дня назад

      @TheWildWestMill l guess so but would have been nice to see some burnt up teeth .. even a couple of stills of the blade once it was off.. 👍

    • @TheWildWestMill
      @TheWildWestMill  22 дня назад

      I have another video like that destroyed the sawblade

    • @rebekahfrench5747
      @rebekahfrench5747 22 дня назад

      @@TheWildWestMill thats more like it.. everyyone just wants to see the carnage in action these days.. Carry on.. cheers will check it out..👍

    • @TheWildWestMill
      @TheWildWestMill  22 дня назад

      @ thanks for watching

  • @benjamindehr3179
    @benjamindehr3179 15 дней назад

    I think I may have detected some RadioHead

  • @brettadams417
    @brettadams417 17 дней назад +1

    The smallest big bang there ever was

    • @TheWildWestMill
      @TheWildWestMill  17 дней назад +2

      If you can hear it at all in the cab with all the sound insulation then it was loud

  • @davidwall7747
    @davidwall7747 2 дня назад

    Well - that was a waste of 11:30 I'll never get back again.

    • @TheWildWestMill
      @TheWildWestMill  2 дня назад

      Whatever man I got plenty of other videos if your want to see destruction on a saw

  • @John-c4b6y
    @John-c4b6y 15 дней назад

    Is that metal? O'h ya, lets keep sawing .....Yikes!

    • @TheWildWestMill
      @TheWildWestMill  15 дней назад

      Yep that’s exactly what I did because I’m told to get outta the log what I can by the owner

  • @timothyortega5608
    @timothyortega5608 16 дней назад +2

    Excuse me but I'm bored to my feet😂❤

  • @larryjeffries5362
    @larryjeffries5362 27 дней назад +3

    If you think something is in the log, why keep cutting?

    • @TheWildWestMill
      @TheWildWestMill  27 дней назад +2

      It takes 10 minutes to change a couple sawbits then start sawing again. My boss paid good money for the logs. I’m going to get the most I can. Especially right now sawmills are going out of business all across North America hardwood lumber is in the toilet 🚽 and softwood isn’t much better

    • @larryjeffries5362
      @larryjeffries5362 26 дней назад +1

      I understand now, thank you for your reply 👍

    • @TheWildWestMill
      @TheWildWestMill  26 дней назад

      But you are right I probably should have kicked it off. Fence or nails isn’t bad with carbide sawbits. It’s the bigger stuff that wrecks things Error on my part

    • @Craig-fl8jj
      @Craig-fl8jj 25 дней назад

      ​@TheWildWestMill the lumber market is in the toilet but the timber market is much worse. Your boss didn't pay much for those logs which are pretty shitty looking logs.

    • @TheWildWestMill
      @TheWildWestMill  25 дней назад +2

      @ this mill has been here for 40 years sawing logs exactly like this We make all our lumber into products that the orders have been back up and pallets Everything else is made into timbers and RR ties that have a the only thing keeping sawmills afloat right now

  • @arkansas1336
    @arkansas1336 Месяц назад +3

    Too bad about the metal.

    • @TheWildWestMill
      @TheWildWestMill  Месяц назад +1

      When we cut spruce it happens a lot. Just the logs are so big. We can’t turn them away even if there’s a chance of metal

  • @troytreeguy
    @troytreeguy Месяц назад

    Bummer!

    • @TheWildWestMill
      @TheWildWestMill  Месяц назад +1

      More metal today in my next upload We get big spruce logs but there’s always metal

  • @DerSolinski
    @DerSolinski 8 дней назад

    Nothing to see here, just some tree trunks getting thrown around like they are toothpicks.
    Gotta to appreciate all that mass getting handled like playthings.

    • @TheWildWestMill
      @TheWildWestMill  8 дней назад

      The power of hydraulics is really quite amazing

  • @robertgreen8695
    @robertgreen8695 Месяц назад

    I hope that it did not do any serious damage to the blades and the rest of the works.

    • @TheWildWestMill
      @TheWildWestMill  Месяц назад +3

      I changed 17 sawbits and was back sawing in 10 minutes

  • @thepubliceye
    @thepubliceye 14 дней назад

    Why wood you doo that, just for more vieus?

    • @TheWildWestMill
      @TheWildWestMill  14 дней назад +1

      It’s spelled views . And no it wasn’t done for views Sometimes the metal can be cut out by cutting off a thick piece but it did not work that time nothing was damaged the saw has to be sharpened every couple hours anyways

  • @noimagination99
    @noimagination99 14 дней назад

    No need to be soooo long, and then you don't even show the aftermath! Had to downvote, which I almost NEVER do.

    • @TheWildWestMill
      @TheWildWestMill  14 дней назад

      Ok thanks

    • @TheWildWestMill
      @TheWildWestMill  14 дней назад

      Next time the video won’t be posted at all

    • @Droningonuk
      @Droningonuk 12 дней назад +1

      Just post the aftermath​ @@TheWildWestMill

    • @TheWildWestMill
      @TheWildWestMill  12 дней назад

      @ I didn’t have time that video. There are other ones on the channel that show the saw afterwards

    • @Droningonuk
      @Droningonuk 12 дней назад

      @@TheWildWestMill I'll have a look thanks