Sunbelt Ag Expo

We just completed a show at the Sunbelt AG Expo in Moultrie, GA.  It was a really nice show!  One of the local residents brought logs to the exhibitors at the show so we could mill up the lumber and he would pick up the material at the end of the show.  He got a lot of nice lumber.  The 8 pine logs he brought us ranged in size from 10" - 20" in diameter.   We made a lot of nice 1" lumber from these logs.  He took home around 600 board feet of Logosol cut lumber.  According to some of our visitors, it was as smooth as any bandsaw cut lumber on site.

After one demonstration, a guy came up and felt of the face of the board I had just sawn, and said, "It just don't get no better, does it?"  The boards produced on the M7 sawmill were straight and true, and really looked good.  We had big crowds whenever we cranked up the sawmill.  People would gather around and watch a board being sawn on the mill and then be amazed when they inspected the resulting plank after watching it being cut with a chainsaw.  That a chainsaw could cut that smooth had never occurred to them.

We also had the demo trailer with a 25KW Diesel Generator that we used to power the ph260 4-head planer/moulder.  We cut a bunch of white oak blanks into a round - over pattern as people watched.  Again they were amazed at the resulting board.

Some of our old friends and planer and mill owners came by to talk about how they were using their Logosol equipment, and how satisfied they were with it.  One M7 owner had bought his mill at the Sunbelt AG Expo over 10 years ago and said he had made a lot of lumber with it, and used the lumber in barn and outbuilding projects over the years.  He was definitely a happy customer!

All in all it was a good show, but it was a workout for me, as I was busy as a one-armed paper hanger, running the sawmill, running the planer, talking with visitors, and handing out brochures.