Saw mil, the first process in the woodworking industry

Saw mill is the facility where the first process in woodworking industry takes a place. In the saw mill the wood logs are cut to form panel boards. The panel boards then are dried to the standard moisture content before sent to the next process in the woodworking industry. The chain saw is the main tool to do the cutting the trees, but it rare used in the saw mill because it made lot of waste. Big band saw is the most uses saw to make panel from the wood log. 

Saw mill is usually equipped with equipment and facilitation to do the wood transportation such as: rail, lift, and pallets. The big and modern saw mill industry can also equipped with the equipment to take care wood waste. A big saw mill can be equipped with complete facility for the processing to the wood waste. The wood chip and saw dust can be processed to make some other wood product such as: pulp, particle board, wood pellet, OSB or simply dried and used as fuel.

The wet wood boards are taken to the wood drying process. The thin wooden boards will dry in much shorter time than the wood logs. A thin wooden board has much larger surface area than the logs to make the water evaporate much faster. The sizes of the boards are usually made according with the standard sizes in the woodworking industry. But the special sizes can also be made if necessary.

Some of saw mill is also available to do the further processing such as: wood drying, anti-insect treatment, and grading the wood board. 

 traditional saw mill

Portable saw mill.

The current technology has developed a portable saw mill. It is the mobile saw mill to serve the timber cutting to make the wood board near the forest or wood plantation. The portable saw mill can also be equipped with a complete facility for cutting the timber and manage the wood waste. Portable saw mill help for people who want to make wood panel boards with less transportation  cost.

portable saw mill