Tuesday, February 8, 2011

How Much Can You Cut With A Portable Sawmill?


If you're thinking of buying a portable sawmill, here's a quick portable sawmill story for you.

Let's say that an average sawyer says that he cut 2,500 board feet in an 8-hour day.  Would you believe him?  Well, what if he said 5,000 the next day?  What if he even said something like 7,500 and the number kept getting bigger and bigger each day?  Where would your cutoff point for believability be?

As a new sawyer, you may not know the answer to that yet.  In fact, there are many veteran sawyers who are still scratching their head trying to figure out the mystery of how much wood is really sawn in a certain time period.

There are a few reasons for that.  One reason is that there are a lot of different types of portable sawmills on the market.  Not only that, but they each have their own features and their own top speeds.  When you add to that the fact that different people set up their wood differently and move at a different pace, it's easy to see where some of the portable sawmill confusion comes from.

The other side of the equation is human error.  More to the point, it's human exaggeration.  Everyone wants to be the best at what they do.  So, they might have cut ten board feet, a hundred, a thousand or ten thousand.  However, you can bet that, whatever they cut, they're going to embellish a bit on the final number.

So, how much wood can you realistically cut in a day with a portable sawmill?  Visit www.cookssaw.com for more details!