Merchandise
Logs are measured on the yard, bucked to the lengths that will earn the most, and sorted by diameter onto the large-log or small-log deck.
5–28 in diameters · 34 sort bins
Process · six movements, about thirty hours
Log Load
A tree arrives on a log truck in the morning. A day and a half later it leaves as a strapped, wrapped, bar-coded unit of straight pine. Here is everything that happens in between.
Debark & scan
A rotary debarker strips the bark — straight to our boiler. Then lasers map the log in 3D and the optimizer tests thousands of cutting patterns before choosing one.
≈ 4,000 solutions tested per log · < 1 second
Primary breakdown
Chipping heads turn the outer slabs into pulp chips while the saws follow the log’s natural sweep — curve sawing that keeps the long fibres whole.
Curve sawing · 0.135 in kerf
Edge & trim
Each rough flitch is scanned again. The edger decides the widest clear board inside it; the trimmer cuts out defects and squares the ends to length.
Trim accuracy ± 1/16 in
Kiln
Green lumber is stickered into stacks and rolled through continuous kilns fired by our own bark and sawdust, until the moisture meter reads nineteen or less.
≈ 24 h cycle · target ≤ 19% MC
Plane, grade, wrap
The planer surfaces all four sides. A camera grader reads every face, a certified grader confirms it, and the unit is strapped, wrapped and tagged for your yard.
Up to 2,000 ft/min through the planer
Where every log goes
Nothing leaves
as waste.
Lumber
To framers, truss plants, treaters and yards.
Pulp chips
By rail to paper and packaging mills.
Shavings & sawdust
Animal bedding, wood pellets — and our own kilns.
Bark
Fuel for the biomass boiler and landscape mulch.
See the floor
for yourself.
Customers and landowners are welcome on a guided walk of both lines — hard hats, ear plugs and coffee provided. Tours run Tuesday and Thursday mornings.
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