Sawing RAILROAD TIES: The heartbeat of a rural SAWMILL!

This video goes into the details of how we saw oak logs into rail road ties! These ties are the bread and butter of most small rural sawmills and are bought by companies who further process them and treat them and sell them to multiple railroad companies all across the world. Our Edmiston Hydraulic Sawmill makes short work of most of the logs and keeps a steady paycheck coming in!

[@TheOutdoorRight]

Do y’all like the sawmill or logging videos better?

[@imageofthebeast8599]

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[@KennethPowell-kx3jt]

First time watching your video. Thank you from northwest Pa.

[@TheOutdoorRight]

Thanks for watching!

[@imageofthebeast8599]

thank good times

[@mlj6419]

New subscriber here. Good stuff. In answer to your question, a little of both make for a good video. Thanks

[@TheOutdoorRight]

Thanks for the sub!

[@markgalicic7788]

good video nice sawing.

[@TheOutdoorRight]

Thanks 👍

[@joestone2068]

Nice mill 👍

[@TheOutdoorRight]

Thanks! It still needs some improvement to help with flow. I would like to put a green chain in and a lumber stacker

[@karencary3312]

I subscribed. Lived in NW Arkansas for about 12 years.

[@TheOutdoorRight]

I’m from north central Arkansas around Mountain View!

[@hydrowatcher]

Nice video. What is the capacity of the little loader and where did you get it and what did you pay for it? If you don't mind me asking. That sawmill looks very familiar, I believe I sawed several loads of ties on it, my favorite sawmill of all I have ever sawed on. Did you get it from Jeremy Callahan?

[@TheOutdoorRight]

Hello Kelly! This is the mill we got from Jeremy that you have cut on before. Donald is my dad. The little loader will pick up 15 ties but not 20 and will pick up 20 cants and handles bundles of lumber. We bought it out of Clarksville Tennessee from a dealer and it’s been a great machine. I believe it’s the 35 size and if you got one size bigger it would be great. I’m not sure what we payed for it but it was pre Covid so I’m sure the price has gone up.

[@PapawMule]

Good setup.. retired Ouachita Mts logger..

[@TheOutdoorRight]

You probably cut some nice timber in those hills over the years!

[@alanwatts9232]

Nice mill. Wondering if you should build a roof over the important bits and fit a rain deflector to the exhaust pipe?

[@TheOutdoorRight]

Yes we should and we are slowly doing it. The exhaust has a flapper on it and we usually hang a bucket over it if it’s going to rain

[@reohomebound]

Both!

[@TheOutdoorRight]

You got it!

[@davidhaynes3126]

That’s a unique view ( from the carriage )
Sorry, just wondering. How do you keep rain off your mill, and the planks, when you’re not running?

[@TheOutdoorRight]

It’s from the mast that carries the hydraulics to the carriage. We don’t keep the rain off the mill just the controls that are inside the saw cab under a roof. The lumber is stacked on 3/4 thick sticks between layers to help with air drying. Rain on the top of the stack doesn’t degrade the lumber because it evaporates pretty quick.

[@davidhaynes3126]

@@TheOutdoorRight thanks.

[@williamgardner8105]

What size engine on headsaw, I have a mill just like yours, I run 60 hp electric on saw

[@TheOutdoorRight]

I wish I could run an electric motor but unfortunately I don’t have access to three phase power. The power unit is a Detroit 8v92 it cranks a lot of horsepower

[@bryanbest5113]

#999....c'mon 1 more!!!

[@TheOutdoorRight]

We got it now!

[@Mike-ew9hf]

Change the view of Your camera. I want to see the log.I'm coming into the blade from the front

[@TheOutdoorRight]

Will do!

[@KennethPowell-kx3jt]

First time watching your video. Thank you from northwest Pa.

[@TheOutdoorRight]

You’re up in the good timber country! I sure would like to have y’all’s veneer market!