How American's 90-Year-Old Family Sawmill Cuts 200 Million Board Feet | US Lumber Secrets Revealed

Ever wonder what it actually takes to turn a raw log into the lumber that frames your home, your deck, or your shop? In this video, we go deep inside three of the most impressive sawmill operations in the United States — and what we found is nothing short of incredible. We start in Allendale, South Carolina, at Collum's Lumber Products LLC — a fourth-generation family business that has been producing Southern Yellow Pine since the 1930s. With a capacity of up to 200 million board-feet per year, five massive dry kilns, and a fully automated planer line with optical autograding, this is one of the most sophisticated softwood operations in the Southeast. Then we head up to Bath, New Hampshire, to visit Britton Lumber Company — a mill that has been sawing Eastern White Pine since 1946. Watch as fresh-cut round logs from Vermont and New Hampshire's Connecticut River Valley get transformed into square-edged boards destined for siding, paneling, shelving, and trim all across New England and beyond. Finally, we make our way to Eugene, Oregon, and step inside Zip-O-Log Mills — one of the last truly large-scale long-length sawmills in the country, capable of cutting Douglas Fir logs up to 52 feet long and 5 feet in diameter. This is where massive Pacific Northwest timber becomes the kind of precision structural beams used in exposed post-and-beam buildings and major commercial projects. Three mills. Three species. Three different parts of the country. One incredible look at how American lumber gets made. If you love watching serious industrial machinery do what it was built to do, hit play and don't look away. 👍 Like and subscribe to Sky Creative for more amazing industrial content! =============== Support us by subscribe here: https://bit.ly/3DlHvQb If you are the owner, send me your request via e-mail in the description. I will follow as soon as read. Take your times and enjoy our videos! Thanks for watching.