Sawmills

Being in a forestry town and coming from a somewhat forestry town we had to check out the sawmills here.

These guys work 24hrs a day, rain ice or snow, to fell, transport and mill the wood to supply the world with timber.

Mind you, the pine beetle is killing off more trees than they can fell or sell so they have to work as hard and fast as possible to keep the industry going.

Maurice, Barbs brother, kindly showed us around his sawmill.

The speed and efficiency of the mill was very impressive.

Everything is highly mechanised and computerised. They process at least 5 logs a minute, from a log to finnished routed 4 by 2's wrapped and ready to be shipped out.