Sawmilling Process
How we do it
Here at Sutherland Timber our Sawmilling process consists of the following:
- A Log Yard for sorting, grading and storing logs.
- A Morbark 636 Rosser Head De-barker for peeling logs fit for the sawmilling process.
- We run a Bandsaw Carriage Mill, a 60” Isles forge Bandsaw with a Southern Cross 3 knee carriage and a CM&E slabber.
- From here the flitchers go through a Sherman 6 inch 4 saw optimising board Edger through to the run over docking system. This is where anything that needs to be re-cut goes back to the re-saw - another 60” Isles forge rig.
- Anti-sap treatment and sorting or sizes and grades happens at the round table.
- From the Round table the timber then goes onto the sort line for filleting before it goes off to the kilns for drying.
- All log residues – sawdust, bark and chip – are sold for landscaping, fuel or further processing proving the industry reuses as much product as it can.
