Sawyer Rob
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Well, the Sawmill EXPO 2009 is now over, and if you didn't make the Morgantown WV. show, you missed a chance to see many brands and styles of sawmills in action, side by side.
The show was smaller than the 2007 show, but it still had a lot of sawmills, and other forestry related equipment to look over, and even try out for yourself.
The five of us that were at the Norwood booth met at the showgrounds on thursday to set up and check out the LM2000 sent for the show.
Once we were set up, we headed to a "great" supper, when all of a sudden, some SEVERE weather came through! It rained and blew VERY hard with thunder and lightening... When it let up, we decided to go back to the show grounds, to make sure everything was "ok". Once there, it was easy to see the wind had done a LOT of damage!!
Our demo tent was crumbled, and we weren't alone either! Many fared much worse than we did!
I noticed a couple minor food vendors packed up and left the show, but all of the "important folks" made the best of it just like we did, bending our metal tubeing back into shape, and putting the tent back up...
Anyway, friday morning was the "Shootout" and we already had the mill set up and ready to go... When the horn blew, "JP" and "John" got into action...
and it wasn't long before a pile of nice wide "yellow poplar" boards started stacking up! Because all of the poplar logs came to the EXPO "caked" with mud, the folks running the show decided to "debark" all of the logs... "Morbark" had a huge debarker there, and it made "short work" of getting all of that caked mud off the logs!
JP and John used Norwoods log loader to load the logs,
And the saw dust kept flying...
The show was smaller than the 2007 show, but it still had a lot of sawmills, and other forestry related equipment to look over, and even try out for yourself.
The five of us that were at the Norwood booth met at the showgrounds on thursday to set up and check out the LM2000 sent for the show.
Once we were set up, we headed to a "great" supper, when all of a sudden, some SEVERE weather came through! It rained and blew VERY hard with thunder and lightening... When it let up, we decided to go back to the show grounds, to make sure everything was "ok". Once there, it was easy to see the wind had done a LOT of damage!!
Our demo tent was crumbled, and we weren't alone either! Many fared much worse than we did!
I noticed a couple minor food vendors packed up and left the show, but all of the "important folks" made the best of it just like we did, bending our metal tubeing back into shape, and putting the tent back up...
Anyway, friday morning was the "Shootout" and we already had the mill set up and ready to go... When the horn blew, "JP" and "John" got into action...
and it wasn't long before a pile of nice wide "yellow poplar" boards started stacking up! Because all of the poplar logs came to the EXPO "caked" with mud, the folks running the show decided to "debark" all of the logs... "Morbark" had a huge debarker there, and it made "short work" of getting all of that caked mud off the logs!
JP and John used Norwoods log loader to load the logs,
And the saw dust kept flying...