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Narrow band sawmill demo for a hundred visitors
in the Welsh forest leads to orders and enquiries
A mid-range band sawmill was ordered by a
produces accurately sawn material
mid-Wales farm partnership diversifying
with minimal waste, dominated the
into production of timber for farm buildings
demonstrations. Using Wood-Mizer's
after watching demonstrations in Wales of
blade technology, refined over 30
Wood-Mizer's sawmill technology recently.
years, simplicity and low running
In addition, a North Wales play
costs are possible.
equipment manufacturing company
Further timber conversion, adding
showed serious interest in a semimore value, was shown by a range of
industrial band sawmill and 31 visitors left
edgers, multi-rips, shingle/lapsiders
written requests for information, service
and a planer/moulder. Blade
work, blades and quotations.
maintenance kit was also
The equipment demonstrated aims to
Stephen Cull
demonstrated.
help woodland owners and contractors
Contractor s' and industrial
increase the return on their timber and enter new sawmilling equipment showed their paces. Also
markets through the simple conversion of round shown was Wood-Mizer's entry-level sawmill which
timber into sawn lumber and the event attracted over is popular with small-scale woodcraft operators and
a hundred visitors.
woodland owners.
The visitors from all over Wales and neighbouring
Stephen Cull comments: "The Esgair Timber
England converged on the Esgair Forest, near Company's enterprise is exciting and far-sighted in
Machynlleth.
terms of sustainable, locally based high quality
The site is an impressive woodland location for timber production. Making the project possible was
Esgair Timber Company's large sawmill building, Wood-Mizer's range of versatile, relatively low-cost
which was constructed entirely from wood sawn on band sawmills which permit a profitable response to
its Wood-Mizer band sawmill. The event was demand for sawn timber from locally grown timber.
arranged by Stephen Cull, Wood-Mizer's regional
"The secondary processing equipment takes the
agent for Wales and the West of England. Stephen, process into a rewarding next step.
who has his own Wood-Mizer based sawmilling
"The sawmill order and the nature of serious
business, has represented Wood-Mizer for 15 years.
enquiries was a bonus in currently cash-strapped
Mobile and static versions of Wood-Mizer's Great Britain and we are grateful to Esgair Timber
popular LT40 log breakdown sawmill, which Company for making it possible", he adds.
A demonstration of band sawmill technology in
Cumbria in the north of England attracted forty
enthusiastic visitors on 1st April, picture below.
One tree surgeon bought a small LT15 band
sawmill on the day to serve as the vehicle of his
progress towards more rewarding timber
conversion to saleable lumber. Also a gatemaker
plans to upgrade from his old circular rack bench
and ordered an LT15 on the day.
The demonstration of equipment technology
designed to help woodland owners and contractors
add value and enter new markets through the
simple conversion of round timber into sawn
lumber was organised by Martin Phillips, 40,
recently appointed Wood-Mizer’s representative in
Cumbria. He comments:
"From 10.30am to 2.00pm we were rushed off
our feet with enquiries about the mills that we
demonstrated, some about prices, many about
recent enhancements.
"We didn’t need to explain the sustainable factor
inherent in Wood-Mizer mills because virtually all
the visitors were fully aware of our thin kerf
technology which creates less sawdust and an extra
board from each log", he concludes.
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Bandsaw demonstrations score in Cumbria, UK