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^{June 16, 2016}On the Edge of Reason: Replace Your Steel Sawguides with Aluminum
I remember many years ago visiting the Pacific Northwest to meet with the Head Sawfiler at a local sawmill. The first thing we saw when arriving at the mill site was an ambulance. Safety is a huge concern in sawmills and seeing an ambulance is obviously not a good sign. As we pulled up to…
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^{May 24, 2016}Stop Blaming the Lube: A Sawmill Case Study
I had a very interesting discussion this past week with a customer about Lube Systems and how they’re always the first thing to be blamed for any breakdown. It seems that with any failure in a mill the easiest thing to blame is not having enough lube, but that isn’t always the case. Most systems…
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^{April 25, 2016}The Best Solutions Look Like the Worst Without Buy In
I was talking to a good friend of mine on the phone the other day. We were just chatting about past projects we had worked on together, and others that my friend had worked on. Our conversation was light and going really well until out of the blue, my friend made a remark that changed…
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