Lumber Articles
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Lumber Mill - Major Hardwood Provider from Allegany, NY - Case Study
This lumber company specializes in the production of green and kiln dried hardwood lumber. They employ a team of professional foresters and certified timber harvesters that can help harvest both private and public timber lots. Their proven sawmill practices and drying techniques produce some of the finest high quality grade hardwood lumber in the industry. In an on going effort to maintain their ...
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10 Easy Tips To Build and Design A Small Greenhouse Watering System
Building Your Own Mini-Greenhouse Can Be A Fun And Educational Experience, As Well As A Rewarding One. Especially If You’re Good With Tools. If You Are Using A Greenhouse To Initiate Transplants Or Grow Plants To Maturity, The Greenhouse Should Be Located In An Area That Will Receive The Most Sunlight. It Should Also Be Located In A Well-Ventilated Area. Avoid Building Greenhouses In ...
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Hud-Son Forest Equipment Oscar 336-Busy Bee Apiaries Sawmill Review
The Oscar-336 is a great mill for the average and advances sawyers. No matter what your needs for a sawmill might be time always plays a factor in ones needs. You could be under pressure of supplying customers or you just need to finish a project so you can take some time to relax. The Oscar 336 makes quick work of log-to-lumber and slabbing needs. Not only can the Oscar-336 give you impressive ...
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Will this Sawmill make the Cut? Hud-Son Forest Equipment Slabber Sawmill with Off Grid with Doug and Stacy-Built in the USA!
Slabber – Wide Slab Sawmill Doug and Stacy live on 11 acres in a log cabin. They live the Pioneer life in the 21st century and have a sawmill to make dimensional lumber for their homestead BUT this Red Oak might be TO BIG for the Hud-son Warrior sawmill so we have just the fix! Hud-Son Forest Equipment is a New York State based company located in the foothills of the Adirondacks. What ...
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Thinking about buying a sawmill?
There are many things to consider before buying a portable sawmill. What type of milling you are doing: homeowner or professional usage, diameter logs you will be sawing, manual or hydraulic mill, stationary or trailer band mill, and of course budget? Can you get parts easily for your mill? Can you get training on using your mill properly? Will I get support after the sale? Who can I call if I ...
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Nick Klaich, Hud-Son Forest Equipment Warrior Sawmill
Nick Klaich “Successful loading and slabbing a 3,000 pound Elm tree-Urban Logging/Hud-Son sawmill” Good morning, my name is Nick. Some of you might have watched my prior videos where I attempted to place a large Elm tree on my Hud-Son Warrior mill. I was unsuccessful but today we are going to get another tree and I have a new plan. Stay tuned. Elm tree estimated at 3,000 pounds. So ...
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Pulp & paper case study - British Columbia Sawmill
Smart Elbow® Excels for Pulp & Paper There were several reasons that a British Columbia, Canada, sawmill chose the Smart Elbow for installation in a new pneumatic conveying system. Due to the potentially abrasive nature of wood chips and dust when conveyed pneumatically, plant engineering designed the new system to perform without necessitating the repair and replacement chores that ...
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Field leaching of alkaline copper quaternary-treated red pine lumber over 3 years: long-term dynamics
Alkaline copper quaternary (ACQ), a wood preservative, consists of copper oxide and quaternary ammonium compounds. Three red pine piles were monitored over 3 years to evaluate the dynamics of contaminant leaching from ACQ-treated and untreated lumber. There were small temporal changes in the volumetric leachate/rain ratio with the ACQ-treated lumber, while the volumetric ratio decreased across ...
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Lumber liquidators raid shows companies need to heed U.S. Lacey Act
U.S. federal authorities recently executed search warrants at two Virginia facilities belonging to Lumber Liquidators Holdings, Inc., the largest specialty retailer of hardwood flooring in the United States. Lumber Liquidators said in a press release last month that the raids were related “to the importation of certain of the Company’s wood flooring products,” but did not ...
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How Much Will it Cost to Save Our Economy’s Foundation?
During the past two summers, Pakistan was hit with catastrophic floods. The record flooding in the late summer of 2010 was the most devastating natural disaster in Pakistan’s history. The media coverage reported torrential rains as the cause, but there is much more to the story. When Pakistan was created in 1947, some 30 percent of the landscape was covered by forests. Now it is 4 percent. ...
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SRS Crisafulli`s Rugged Roots in Montana
SRS Crisafulli's Rugged Roots in Montana SRS Crisafulli's employees are a mix of deep rooted Montanan families, returned children and transplants. It seems those who find themselves here share common goals and values, whether it is access to fresh air and wide open landscapes or taking advantage of a current employment boom. Everyone here also values hard work, the rugged environment, and ...
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Case study: OSB product improvement
Challenge Customer required a process to separate the low grade lumber “fines” and smaller pieces of wood chips from the more desirable large OSB (Oriented Strand Board) strands to increase the quality and strength of their finished product. Approach GK was contacted to create a new process solution when traditional screening solutions did not allow the customer to meet their ...
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Shrinking forests: The many costs
In early December 2004, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo 'ordered the military and police to crack down on illegal logging, after flash floods and landslides, triggered by rampant deforestation, killed nearly 340 people,' according to news reports. Fifteen years earlier, in 1989, the government of Thailand announced a nationwide ban on tree cutting following severe flooding and the ...
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Trees in the greenhouse: why climate change is transforming the forest products business
While there are risks for the forest products industry, it largely stands to gain from efforts to address global warming due to new opportunities for sustainable forestry. The world is entering an era when natural resource constraints, environmental policies, and shifting consumer values will create unprecedented demands on the private sector. Recent spikes in the prices of energy and food ...
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Organic and Environmentally Friendly Lowe Products Company, Inc.
Untitled Document SHEPARDSTOWN, WV From top-quality mulch to the richest soils, every product sold by Shepardstown, WV-based Lowe Products Company, Inc. is . Founded in 1972 by John and Betty Lowe, both former school teachers, Lowe Products can claim its place as one of the original pioneers of producing shredded hardwood mulch. While the company ...
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Environmental Profile of the Lumber and Wood Products Industry
Introduction The EPA's Office of Compliance has developed a series of profiles or notebooks containing information on selected major industries. These notebooks, which focus on key indicators that holistically present air, water, and land pollutant release data, have been thoroughly reviewed by experts from both inside and outside the EPA. What will you find in this Notebook? The Notebook ...
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