hey Jonathan here at the Colfax high
mill and woodshop we take in trees that
are destined to the dump where the
landfill or the chipping and we convert
that waste wood to beautiful wood
products and sell them on our store tree
transformation.com
I teach wood shop here do tree work on
the weekends a lot of times people hire
me to do fuel reduction on the
properties or other tree services drop
their logs off here and rather than have
them go to waste we turn them into wood
products so this is an incense cedar log
it got dropped off you recently got this
Vermeer CTX50 mini skid-steer with
log grapple and I cannot believe how
well this thing works I would estimate
that log is probably a thousand pounds
and now it's able to pick it up and
easily maneuver it through that tight
spot and bring it over to the mill
really very safe tool easy to operate
easy to keep away from students and the
machinery so nobody's underfoot and I
lift these logs up load them on the mill
and these students here are gonna mill
this lumber into cedar slabs and make
benches or tables out of it and make all
sorts of furniture
we are loading it really easy to use the
middle is a wood-mizer LT15 wide so that
will allow us to mill lumber up to 36
inches across
and I think this log is just about that
it's maybe thirty right at the center a
lot of taper in the log there will be a
little bit of waste wood but these will
be beautiful boards you can see some of
the lumber
you've already milled in the background
there middle a lot of oak a lot of
incense cedar redwood whatever logs we
can get we mill dry-cured and then build
projects and sell those projects on our
website
