Author: Simone Jahn

^{August 17, 2020}Is It Worth Using Saw Guide Spacers?
Every once in a while, a customer will ask about using spacers to change the target size. The reasoning goes, rather than investing in the right sized saw guide to begin with, you can reduce costs by adding a spacer to your saw guide. That seems like a quick and easy fix, doesn’t it? And…
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^{July 8, 2020}Aluminum saw guides: to remachine or not to remachine?
Every once in a while, I get a call from a customer with a version of the following question: “We have thicker aluminum saw guides in our filing room that we want taken down to a smaller size. Can you remachine it?” There’s a very simple answer to this question but before we get to…
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^{June 8, 2020}I still give a damn. Sawmills in the time of a pandemic.
Okay—so this is a bit of an understatement—but boy have things changed since I wrote about sawmill closures last year and how devastating these conditions were for small towns. I remember how I kept thinking to myself, “can things really get worse?” …I’ll let you laugh. Yup, we all know better than to ask THAT…
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^{September 26, 2019}Frankly, I Do Give A Damn: Sawmill Closures
BC sawmill closures. What is there to do? Paper machines facing curtailments. At least 130 jobs lost. Another BC sawmill closure. Mill workers walk off the job for the last time. Sawmill to shut down permanently. It seems like a day doesn’t go by without seeing an article about the spiraling condition of the sawmill…
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^{April 12, 2019}What’s your standard?
Tell me something—if you had the choice between a quality product, (with a higher upfront cost), or a cheaper product (with hidden costs), what would you choose? The logical side of me wants to believe you’ll choose the quality product, but reality really hit me smack in the face the other week, and now I…
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^{March 29, 2018}Saw Guide Sales: Beware of these 4 tactics
You wouldn’t BELIEVE what happened to me the other day. I’m still shaking my head. A customer called me up saying, “Udo, I just talked to a potential vendor who tried to sell me on their saw guides. He swore that they were state-of-the-art saw guides, the best in the industry—what do you think?” PLEASE. If…
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^{June 27, 2017}The Sawguide Reformation: Why the Industry Needs to Change
This year marks the 500th anniversary of an extremely annoyed monk who nailed a list onto a church door because he was fed up with the Roman Catholic church. That monk was Martin Luther and the church was the castle church in Wittenberg. This act was part of what we now call the Reformation. Martin…
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^{April 10, 2017}I Can Tell How Profitable Your Sawmill is Just by Looking At It
You know the old saying that you can tell a lot about a person by the way they dress, and how they present themselves? The same rule applies to business. I had lunch with a friend the other day and like usual, we were talking shop. He seemed agitated, like he wanted to say something…
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^{March 14, 2017}No Ongoing Training? No Problem? No Sawmill!
I was talking with a friend of mine the other day about his experience in sawmills. The more we spoke, the more the same issue kept coming up. It reminded me of my first experience driving in European roundabouts. The infamous six lane roundabout circling the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, as a matter of…
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^{February 7, 2017}Disease Spreads Through the Sawmill Sector—Now Worldwide
The forestry sector is one of the oldest industries in existence. There are older occupations, but man has been using the forests for all sorts of things for thousands of years. Everything from homes and heat to décor and even cooking. Vast communities have grown around this industry, supporting generations of people, and spanning centuries…
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Author: Simone Jahn

August 17, 2020Is It Worth Using Saw Guide Spacers?

July 8, 2020Aluminum saw guides: to remachine or not to remachine?

June 8, 2020I still give a damn. Sawmills in the time of a pandemic.

September 26, 2019Frankly, I Do Give A Damn: Sawmill Closures

April 12, 2019What’s your standard?

March 29, 2018Saw Guide Sales: Beware of these 4 tactics

June 27, 2017The Sawguide Reformation: Why the Industry Needs to Change

April 10, 2017I Can Tell How Profitable Your Sawmill is Just by Looking At It

March 14, 2017No Ongoing Training? No Problem? No Sawmill!

February 7, 2017Disease Spreads Through the Sawmill Sector—Now Worldwide

^{August 17, 2020}Is It Worth Using Saw Guide Spacers?

^{July 8, 2020}Aluminum saw guides: to remachine or not to remachine?

^{June 8, 2020}I still give a damn. Sawmills in the time of a pandemic.

^{September 26, 2019}Frankly, I Do Give A Damn: Sawmill Closures

^{April 12, 2019}What’s your standard?

^{March 29, 2018}Saw Guide Sales: Beware of these 4 tactics

^{June 27, 2017}The Sawguide Reformation: Why the Industry Needs to Change

^{April 10, 2017}I Can Tell How Profitable Your Sawmill is Just by Looking At It

^{March 14, 2017}No Ongoing Training? No Problem? No Sawmill!

^{February 7, 2017}Disease Spreads Through the Sawmill Sector—Now Worldwide