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Sawmill and Firewood processor at New Zealand National fieldays
Sawmills New Zealand demonstrated their Mahoe Supermill and the Whoppa Choppa firewood processor on site G103 at New Zealand National field days in Mystery Creek, Hamilton. The main feature of the Mahoe sawmills is the twinsaw cutting system. The twinsaw is lever operated and cuts a board in a single pass and returns it. The advantages of a Mahoe sawmill over many other sawmills The Mahoe ...
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Fire Destroys 20 Years of Work
“We purchased an Oscar II Sawmill from one of your dealers back in 2000 and we literally worked the snot out of it. Our home is 5500 sq ft and every element you see is hand made from sawmill lumber. The frame (except wall studs), flooring, sub floors, trusses, rafters, clap board siding (made on a jig) – hundreds of thousands of feet of 1x6s, 2x8s, columns and trim, every interior ...
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Sawmills in China Industry Research Report – Now Available from IBISWorld
Revenue for Sawmills in China is set to reach $10.4 billion in 2013, reflecting 16.6% annualized growth over the past five years, says IBISWorld. The rapid development of China’s real estate market has created huge demand for construction wood, wood for decoration, and wood furniture. Meanwhile, the rapid development of transportation infrastructure has raised demand for special timbers and ...
By IBISWorld
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I turned Firewood Into Siding! Warrior Sawmill Off Grid
Okay that was a second log on Mill and now off the mill. I ran out of daylight though so I had to kinda patch this one together for you guys. It’s the next morning, I woke up early this morning and I started getting the boards the ends cut off so they were nice and square and also to rip them I have to cut them because they’re so wide down to 11inches and a quarter for our boards were ...
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EPA awards $200K grant to Town of Dubois (Wyo.) for cleanup of sawmill site
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced the Town of Dubois, Wyoming will receive a $200,000 Brownfields grant to clean up the Dubois Sawmill site on Absaroka Drive. The site is contaminated with benzene, diesel range organics, and other petroleum hydrocarbons. The award to Dubois is part of $69.3 million in EPA Brownfields grants provided to 245 communities across the ...
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Improved utilisation of forests to meet demand for wood
Europe has more than 117 million hectares of forest, but the sustainable utilisation – especially in privately owned forests – falls short of its potential. It is becoming more and more difficult to meet the increasing demand for wood. The project SIMWOOD (Sustainable Innovative Mobilisation of Wood) was recently launched in response to this. The project consortium consists of 28 ...
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Did Combustible Sawdust Cause Deadly Blast at Canadian Sawmill?
CNN recently reported about a sawmill explosion in Prince George, British Columbia. The blast was felt by area residents, one of whom reported it felt like an earthquake. One person has been killed and 23 others were injured. The exact cause of the explosion and subsequent fire is at this point unknown. One potential cause being considered is the possibility of the explosion resulting from ...
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Top Peruvian foe of illegal logging brutally slain
An outspoken Peruvian opponent of illegal logging and three other native Ashaninka community leaders were brutally slain in a remote region bordering Brazil, tribal authorities said Monday. The activist, Edwin Chota, had received frequent death threats from illegal loggers, who he had tried for years to expel from the lands for which his community was seeking title. Illegal loggers were ...
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An inside look at Latin America’s Illegal Logging – Part Two
This post was co-authored with Eduardo Arenas Hernández Jr. and Ana Domínguez, who work for Reforestamos Mexico. This is the second post in a two-part series on illegal logging in Latin America, with key insights coming from the Forest Legality Alliance’s recent event, “Legal Forest Products and International Trade: A Regional Perspective.” The first installment ...
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Initiative: Carbon-credit dollars for timber lots
For most of Oregon's history, the forests like the ones near Paul Nys' house were places where a landowner could get wealthy. Cultivated from seed, rows of trees were grown to a healthy middle age and then chopped down, buzzed into lumber at sawmills and shipped out. Over the years, the retired schoolteacher has had many offers to buy his property, like many other landowners in the state's ...
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Introducing the revolutionary Hakki Pilke 55 Pro
The innovative functions of 55 Pro ensures superior performance in all conditions and situations. It demolishes 55 cm logs of hardwood to high quality firewood with 40 tons splitting power and high-performance hydraulic functions. The Hakki Pilke 55 Pro was designed for effective professional firewood processing in close cooperation with firewood professionals around the world. The innovative ...
By Hakki Pilke
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