Awesome business, family owned, great folks, and the lumber and milling is awesome!!!! WOW!!!!!!

I have been a fan of Farwest Forest Products on Facebook and of their website for some time now. It was just a few weeks ago I finally got to speak with Jenn of Farwest and I have become even a bigger fan now.

I frequent their Facebook Page, and I love cruising their website. Why?

Well, have you all ever seen that "reality" show about the loggers? You know those loose cannon beer drinking brawling knuckle heads that claim to be real loggers? Not!!!!!!!!Farwest is the complete opposite.

Meet Farwest Forest Products. A way cool company, with a way cool family operated business, with way cool wood!!!!

Meet the family, that is our new friend Jenn in the middle of the brothers and dad.

And take a look at some of the work they do!!!!! A giant Sequoia that is a windfall tree with the respectful Evans Brothers paying homage to a giant.

Quartering up the Sequoia

Redwood Slab anyone???

They also consign wood for others as in this Redwood Lace Burl

Gorgeous!

So there ya have it guys, that is just a very small sample of Farwest Forest Products, if you want to see more just click Here For Their Facebook Page and click Here For Their Website.

Buy lumber from Farwest, and your supporting an American Family small business, outfits like this are the back bone of our economy.

It's been a pleasure corresponding with you Jenn from Farwest Forest Products!

Oh and one more thing!!! They are the west coast premier authorized dealer, parts and service facility for WoodMizer Sawmills!!!!!! So if you ever want to get into milling your own lumber, or even as a business start up, then don't forget to look up Farwest Forest Products for some great information, and customer service for the WoodMizer lineup of sawmills.

Thanks for checking it out Patriot Woodworkers and Visitors alike!

I would love to have a slab of that burl say 3/4 to 1" thick lol

I'll have to cruise on over to the Facebook page too

Very impressive!

SQ

That is quite an operation AND some beautiful wood!

Very impressive. What are they using to cut that redwood slab that is standing up? The wood mizer LT 50 will do 36" diameter. I believe that is larger than 36".

John, I believe they are using this beast here.

This is what they have in their facebook photo album, so I am assuming this is there newest beast of a saw for this purpose.

John Moody said:

Very impressive. What are they using to cut that redwood slab that is standing up? The wood mizer LT 50 will do 36" diameter. I believe that is larger than 36".

Okay, that looks more like it. I was just thinking they weren't sawing thosenslabsnwith an LT-50.

John Morris said:

John, I believe they are using this beast here.

This is what they have in their facebook photo album, so I am assuming this is there newest beast of a saw for this purpose.

John Moody said:

I'd like to know how wide the blade is on that dude!!! And how many TPI!

Hi John,

The blade on this one is a 2", although this beast will take a 3" blade.  We are using 7/8 toothspacing on this blade, but also like the 1 1/8 as well.  It is 386" long and we do resharpen them.  The one shown in the images is actually not the one we are using to cut the big slabs... but it is the same model.  The one in the image above is one we just installed at another company up farther in Northern CA.  They too will be milling some big logs.  Wood-Mizer provides a free install and training on our larger industrial line.

Jenn

All I can say is WOW what a beast

Welcome to the forum Jenn we hope you enjoy your time here.

Thanks for the information Jenn, those blades are massive!!!!!!!! And 7/8 spacing, wow! That is a nasty bad blade!!!!

Is that white mill a Woodmizer industrial mill?

Charles Nicholls said:

All I can say is WOW what a beast

Welcome to the forum Jenn we hope you enjoy your time here.

It is a Wood-Mizer.  AWMV is Wood-Mizer's industrial line.   It runs on train rail that is anchored to a concrete slab.

Flippin cool. I did not know WoodMizer had the industrial line Jenn.

Learn something new all the time, I guess if you're not in the market for industrial you'd never know, only because we would be looking at the LT series. Thanks for the information Jenn.