Tips and How-To

Sawing in cold weather can be challenging; however, here is a checklist to ensure you and your sawmill are prepared to tackle the winter sawing season.

The more machinery you have in your workshop, the more often you’re faced with the dilemma of which cutting tools to choose, what is essential for each sawing application, and how to make sure that a particular choice will work well for you.

Five tips on contract sawmilling from an experienced Scottish sawmiller. Watch this interview to learn more tips about contract wood cutting with a mobile sawmill.

A Swedish homesteader shares three tips that he learned from his father and his own experience to make the right decision when you purchase a sawmill.

Wood-Mizer launches a new industrial multirip - a versatile highly-efficient machine with two arbors, each with up to 12 circular saws and capable of sawing timber up to 200 mm thick.

Wood-Mizer sawmill owners are interested in the efficiency of sawing. In order to maximize the sawing time, you need to do regular maintenance and replace spare parts, so that you could avoid unnecessary breaks at work. Following the advice below, will help provide longer run-times and better sawing quality of your sawmill.

Many operators know this problem: during sawing "wavy" cuts appear. The problem is really serious, but you can solve it. Let us examine, step by step, all the factors affecting the sawing process. There are four of them: the operator, the sawmill, the blade and the wood.

Wood-Mizer industrial sawmilling equipment provides high yield, simple design, low-cost sawing systems that can process wood without sorting and debarking. Wood-Mizer’s industrial lines have proven their success in limited production space with a low energy consumption. There are several key benefits of Wood-Mizer industrial equipment that allows to generate profit and significantly improve efficiency in high volume sawmilling.

Coiling and uncoiling bandsaw blades needs to be done correctly. Here is a quick, step-by-step guide to proper blade folding.

Clean mineral oil extends the life of your CBN grinding wheel. Using the wrong kind of oil can damage your CBN wheel by clogging up it's fine surface. Once clogged, it may not be cleaned. As a consequence, CBN wheel begins to leave burn marks on the blade and not sharpen accurately.