www.logosol.com News for the Outdoor Craftsman • No. 1 - 2008

A real challange! Richard Dunmore found this real challange in Strelley, near Nottingham. Page 7

Beautiful woodworking Red Oak in the living room, Maple in the kitchen and Black Cherry in the bedroom. Mr. Raymond Leroux used his Logosol PH260 for all the woodwork in his new house. Read his story! Page 6-7 Growing business Runo Johansson bought the new joinery machines from Logosol. His greenhouse Growpoint attracts attention due to its appearance and it being a room for both plants and people. Page 4-5 It’s Never Too Late... ”When you are old, you have time to do what you think is fun,” says Bengt Kastensson, 93 years old, and The Logosol recipe Arnett brothers Ron and John inspect a test piece to make sure the knives still active with his for a sharp chain are correctly set. With the Logosol PH260 they will start a business. sawmill. Page 10-11 Page 8-9 Page 2 Dear Woodworkers and Friends of Logosol,

Welcome to this Fresh, new issue of to contact them – they like to share their expe- ing the Forum to another host server, so that FRESH CUT! riences. hopefully it’s up running again by the time you read this. Even if we are not able to recover all It has been a long, rough winter and I think There are always a lot of things going on history, I promise that we will have a Forum in many of you are very anxious to start up your at Logosol. Just recently we increased our place! spring woodworking projects. selection of Knives to our Planer/Moulders. We have the new Carpentry Planer/Moulder Thanks for your patience! Attached to the Fresh Cut you’ll find the Program in place and have started to deliver Spring Campaign. You are also invited to our Open House in our new Chain Sharpening Robot – already a Spring Green, Wisconsin, on April 26. It will – Starting April 1st and lasting for the entire proven success! It fits perfectly into the Lo- be a great opportunity to meet with our Expert month – It will be an opportunity for you to gosol program of efficient and professional Charlie Griffin and to check out some of our purchase your necessary woodworking equip- woodworking equipment – affordable for the new machines as well as the proven work- ment before our upcoming price adjustment small-scale woodworker! horse, the PH260. Please see inside for more which will take place May 1st. More innovative products are in the pipeline. information. Hope to see you there! I want to mention that we provide 100% Be sure to check in on a regular base. financing opportunities through our financ- Unfortunately, the on our ing partners – check our web site for further Owners Forum Once again, Welcome web site has been down for a period of time, information. Believe me, they are very eager to this issue of Fresh and I’ve been Stunned at all of the calls and to lend you the money. Cut and I hope you will E-mails we have received from our dear cus- enjoy it. I also want to take the opportunity to thank tomers expressing their worries and asking our “OWNERS NEAR YOU”, - our network of questions about it. The problems we have ex- customers who work with us in sharing their perienced emanates from the host server. In Olof Almstrom, experiences with their Logosol Woodworking this writing moment, we are still working hard President equipment. If you are considering purchasing to get it up again, including trying to recover Logosol Inc. a sawmill or a Planer/Moulder, don’t hesitate all its history. We are in the process of mov-

The recipe for a sharp chain: Clean and shape the grinding wheel before sharpening

Editorial staff A dull or incorrectly sharpened chain is the Publisher: Logosol Inc most common cause of problems when you Editor: David Boyt are sawing. The best remedy is Logosol’s Logosol’s sharpening robot has solved a lot of Editorial Page Editor: Sara Boström sharpening robot and regular cleaning and sawing problems. It works even better if you clean and shape it regularly. Translations: Anna Olsgren Byström shaping of the grinding disc.

Special thanks all Logosol friends Filing a chain by hand is quite an comes an abrasive stone. It is metal chips will get caught in it, who helps us make Fresh Cut better! art. Due to this many choose to used for rounding off the disc, which leads to overheating. buy a sharpening machine. But removing impure material and “If the tooth becomes red while Fresh Cut is printed in 30 000 copies it is not sure that the machine exposing new grinding material. you are sharpening it, the disc and comes out twice a year. solves all problems. If you do it If you make a practice of clea- is not up to par or it needs to be wrong you can, on the contrary, ning the grinding disc before cleaned,” says Pär. destroy the chain. The secret be- each time you sharpen the chain, He runs the company Markus- hind a good sharpening result is you will get a significantly bet- son Development, which has to have correct angles and a clea- ter result. It will not take many developed a professional shar- ned sharpening disc. Most people seconds. know about the angles, but how pening robot that, among other It is equally important that you long was it since you cleaned the things, is used for sharpening round off the edge of the disc. It harvester chains. Logosol’s shar- sharpening disc? P.O. Box 660 should have the same shape as a pening robot is a smaller version Madison, MS 39130 ”When you are sharpening, me- round file. If you fail to do this, of the professional machine. Call TOLL FREE: 1-877-LOGOSOL tal chips get caught in the shar- you will in time create a sharp ”We have tested many grinding pening disc with the result that Telephone: 1-601 856 1889 gash under the cutting tooth, discs. The disc that comes with Fax anytime: 1-601 856 9535 you are sharpening metal with which can result in a broken the sharpening robot is the best metal. This leads to overheating,” Internet: www.logosol.com chain. On the market there are available on the market. One of Email: [email protected] says Pär Markusson, who has grinding discs that are marketed the advantages with it is that is constructed Logosol’s sharpening as more or less maintenance- easy to clean and shape so that it robot. free. This is, however, not true. always gives you the best result,” With the sharpening robot Regardless of what disc you use, says Pär. *

2 Innovative wood processing products - www.logosol.com - This is the photo that Per-Arne took with his cellphone , showing the planing of a 12 metre Per-Arne Ragnarsson and Peter Hall are building a log house of 270 square metres. long beam with the measurements 8’’ x 12’’.

Building a house of 270 square metres is an extreme project, even for an Peter Hall is the customer, and he owns a Logosol PH260 four- experienced timberman as Per-Arne Ragnarsson. cutter planer/moulder. 2 600 metres of planed 8 x 12 inch timber What do you do when the building material you have consists of 2600 metres (8530 ft) of timber, sawn from large-diameter logs and by three different methods, with different surfaces and varying measurements? “The only solution was to plane the whole lot,” says the timberman Per-Arne Ragnarsson.

Per-Arne makes a living by sawing surfaces,” says Per- beam with the measurements “You have to have double ”It works really well,” he renovating and building log Arne. 8’’ x 12’’. The photo had the sets of knives and grind says. houses, and manufacturing He phoned Logosol and accompanying text: ”Sen- them often,” says Per-Arne. Per-Arne also runs a small windows. He lives south of asked if it is all right to use ding a photo of how to use a Sawing is relaxing joinery shop in which he Vetlanda in Sweden. At the the four-cutter for planing PH260”. manufactures windows for moment, he is building a log Building a house of 270 beams that are up to 8 x It almost looks unreal when square metres is an extreme his house projects. Here, home of 270 square met- 12 inch. The answer was such a long and thick beam too, his home-cut timber res (approx. 2900 ft2). The project, even for an expe- “Yes, if you know what you comes out from this relati- rienced timberman as Per- comes in handy. In addition, customer’s name is Peter are doing”. Per-Arne knew vely small planing machine. the Logosol M7 has another Hall, and luckily he owns a Arne. Normally, he works what he was doing and went It was not only this beam with smaller houses and pro- advantage that is appreciated Logosol PH260 four-cutter ahead with the project. by a craftsman. planer/moulder. that was planed. Altogether duces the timber on the spot A couple of days later it was 2600 metres of the using his Logosol M7. When ”Sawing is relaxing, some- Grind the knives often Logosol received an e-mail. dimensions 6 and 8 inches. he works on commission how. And furthermore, I can “The logs were cut with It was Per-Arne who sent The only problem was that he uses a petrol chainsaw; beat any sawmill when it chain, circular saw blade and a photo he had taken with large-diameter timber of this at home he uses Logosol’s comes to measurements and frame saw. It would not look his cellphone showing the size often has sand and dirt bandsaw, about which he has surface of the timber, says good with all the different planing of a 12 metre long in the wood. only good things to say. Per-Arne Ragnarsson. *

Innovative wood processing products - www.logosol.com - 3 This is why Runo chose Logosol again: ”You can phone Logosol without fear of disturbing.”

Runo Johansson believes in his business concept. And he believes in it to such an extent that he did not give up even when his workshop burnt down to the ground. Now he has bought new machines from Logosol and got his business going again.

Runo’s business concept is weather much better than any problem you can phone built on the most important conventional greenhouses, Logosol for support, and you thing in the world: the and it is fitted up both for are always treated profes- photosynthesis. This is the plants and people. sionally and friendly,” says process in which the energy “In 18 square metres there Runo. from the sun helps green is room for about 5000 seed This time, due to economic plants to turn carbon dioxide plants, a table and five reasons, the assembly of and water into food. chairs. The GrowPoint machinery became slightly “We have to learn to work greenhouse is also a fantastic different. He bought the with nature instead of outdoor room,” Runo says. multi jointer/planer MH410, against it,” says Runo, who The workshop burnt down the table saw PS315, and early committed himself to also the, to him, indispen- environmental issues. Its weather resistance was sable MF30. proven when the storm Gud- When he started to think run hit southern Sweden. separate machines about the environment it The Swedish university of He chose separate machines was considered bohemian. agricultural sciences in Al- instead of a combi machine, Today, the reality has caught narp has a GrowPoint green- and this is Runo’s explana- up with us. The Nobel Peace house in its rehabilitation tion: Prize was given to Al Gore garden. The storm destroyed and the UN’s climate panel. “The logistics in the work- a lot, but on the greenhouse shop becomes much better Our shared environment is there were only a couple of now at the top of the agenda. when you have separate ”As a customer, you can phone without fear of disturbing.” ventilation hatches that were machines. A combi mach- A room for learning damaged. Runo Johansson explains why he chose joinery machines ine of the same quality is, from Logosol. What distinguishes Runo The entire construction and strange as it may seem, more from most of us, is that he its function is well thought- expensive to buy,” says for the wooden details that I Å-såget in Limmared. goes further than talking and out, but when the interest Runo. need,” says Runo. The next investment will be writing. He created a “room in it was about to turn into The machine he appre- The GrowPoint is manufac- another machine from Lo- for learning” in which the sales, something devastating ciates most is the vertical tured in a couple of standard gosol, the circular resaw KS prerequisite of life becomes happened. The production milling machine. He uses sizes starting from 15 square 150. The circular resaw will evident and comprehensible. building burnt down to the this to try out angles and metres. Due to the flexible streamline the processing It is a greenhouse with the ground. The entire stock and profiles before they are put assembly of machinery he of the beams that are made name GrowPoint. assembly of machinery was in production. He also uses can produce a great number from his own timber. destroyed by fire. Among the The greenhouse is a self- it for tenoning and routering. of furnishing options and Runo’s greenhouse inclu- supporting and very strong things lost in the fire was a When he has found the right vary the design according to Logosol PH260 four-cutter des functions, thoughts and latticework construction shape, he orders knives and customers’ desires. ideas that would take several whose design seems to ap- planer/moulder and an MF starts producing in the multi 30 vertical milling machine. The first pilot series were pages to describe. peal to most people. Stylish, jointer/planer which is also made of aluminium profiles, Instead, we recommend a is a common comment. A disaster of this propor- equipped with a side cutter. but Runo soon changed to visit to the website of the Each building element is tion can make even the most ”Two persons can operate wood. It is a more natural company, www.growpoint. a triangle-shaped wooden enthusiastic person give up. the machine at the same material, which is apprecia- se. Finally, we give you a frame with a transparent But this is not the case with time. One takes care of the ted by the customers. The quotation, where Runo, in sheet of insulating polycar- Runo Johansson. While wai- jointing operation and the building elements are made poetic form, summarizes the bonate. These elements are ting for the workshop to be other planes and moulds. of pine heartwood, larch or thoughts behind his busi- put together into a geodesic rebuilt, he has rented a place I know that the four-cutter oak. The goal is, as far as ness: dome. The construction has in Limmared and purchased planer/moulder gives more possible, to use timber from “If we create environments several advantages. It is pre- new machines: possibilities and has more his own forest. This is why where butterflies are pleased, fabricated and thus easy to ”Choosing Logosol again capacity, but the vertical he has established a coopera- minds will be opened and assemble. It stands wind and came naturally. If you have milling machine is enough tion with a nearby company, mouths will be fed ”. *

4 Innovative wood processing products - www.logosol.com - Richard Dunmore found a real challange in Strelley, near Nottingham. The ten-eyed Strelley monster

Once in a while, something comes along that challenges even an experienced woodsman like Richard Dunmore from UK. The ten-eyed Strelley monster was that challenge....

See more pictures and read the story at www.logosol.com under news

”The vertical milling machine is the best machine for an innovator. Here, I’m trying out angles Dancing with danger, and working at full stretch and profiles,” Runo Johansson says about the Logosol MF30. to make this cut.

Innovative wood processing products - www.logosol.com - 5 The bathroom is beautifully finis- hed using cut offs.

Logosol canada “I used my PH260 for all the woodwork in the house”

Mr. Raymond Leroux is the fourth generation growing up on his farm boards in a row and then a 6 stay. Hunters are also loo- in Casselman, 50 km outside Ottawa in Ontario, Canada. He took inch wide board to make it king for local lodging in the look nice.” area during the fall. The Bed over the farm in 1979 and is now working as a professional logger on & Breakfast will be a nice the private woodlots in the local area. To optimize the use of the wood is an important factor complement to the income. for me, “says Mr. Leroux”. I used my PH260 for all the I can save a lot of money by woodwork in the house, the “A modern harvester is too around. I cut five White Red Oak, Sugar Maple, doing so.” Red Oak floor in the living expensive for this type of Pines but needed two truck Black Cherry. White Ash, room. For the kitchen floor forest,” says Mr.Leroux, “so loads to move them. There Elm, you name it ! I made the deck from local I made narrow boards out of Cedar that I rounded in the we work with conventio- must have been over 5,000 I extended my garage with Maple. planer. I planed the boards nal chain saw and skidder board feet between those a wood shop where I keep when they were green but More and more requests methods. five Pines. the PH260 and also dry my they did not warp at all. My The bedroom has a spec- Farmers still find it econo- In May last year my wife lumber. I heat the house and wife and I decided to open a tacular Black Cherry floor mically beneficial to transfer and I decided to build a workshop with an exterior Bed & Breakfast. We put in that will only develop into forest land to agriculture new house. After searching wood fired furnace. three rooms with baths in the nicer colours over the years. land and we often get this the market we decided to The exterior of our new basement, that we will rent I saved smaller cut-offs and type of logging. In this area, purchase a Logosol PH260 4 house is covered with out. They look out over the used a few basic knife cut- man made forests started -sided planer moulder. White Pine Siding. To use 90 acre farm land where you ters for all the patterns to early on. Today you can find Through my work as a the wood optimally, I used often see deer feeding. save money.” nice stands that were planted logger I have access to all both 8 inch and 6 inch wide Our community has an The bathroom is beautifully 40 to 50 years ago. sorts of logs, “tells Mr. boards that I run through the outdoor summer theater and trimmed with shorter cut- Build a new house Leroux. “ I have a small PH260. one problem has been for offs from the wood work. sawmill and saw White Pine, There are some big trees “I placed three 8 inch wide visitors to find a place to Mr. Leroux hopes to finish

6 Innovative wood processing products - www.logosol.com - Red Oak in the living room.

Rune Dahl is really in his element, having a job and a hobby that allow him to develop products both in the joinery shop and in the river. Wardrobes and salmon Having the responsibility for the breeding of 20 000 salmon fry, Rune Dahl is a man who likes when things are neat and tidy. And we see proof of that when we visit I try to use the same profile knives for many him in his joinery workshop which lies in an outbuilding products. on his property in Mosvik, Norway. ”Having your own joinery workshop to be in is perfect, now when the nights are getting darker,” Rune says.

Logosol NORWAY Here, he makes sliding door tables slide so easily that you wardrobes and kitchen cup- rejoice. Now that I have this boards of pine and birch, all first-rate equipment I can pro- according to the customer’s duce everything from kitchen wishes and desires. cupboards to chairs and tables,” ”Since I received these three Rune says. joinery machines from Logosol, The river that runs past Rune’s time seems to pass too quickly house is regulated by a water when I work in the workshop. power station, and Mosvik Fish I dream of being able to spend Farm was set up to take care of more time in my workshop, the salmons in the river. Here because I have so many ideas spawn-ready salmon are caught, that I want to realize,” Rune and then their roe is taken. The says. ” I was planning to buy roe is taken care of according one machine with all three to all of the established rules. functions, but now I am very When the salmon fry have We are opening a B & B! pleased that I bought three se- hatched they have a growth parate machines instead.” period of two years, before they are placed in the river to the the house within the next few ”All three machines are in- great delight of future salmon months. credibly nicely designed and robustly constructed. They have anglers. “The local building supply strong motors and high capa- Rune is really in his element, store phones me when they need city”, Rune states, and shows us having a job and a hobby that custom work. I didn’t want to sell the 1 m (3 ft) space between the allow him to develop products too much of my own wood until saw blade and the fence, which both in the joinery workshop now as I needed most of it for makes handling wide laminates and in the river. We wish him the house. The word spread and easy as pie. ”And it’s a pleasure all the best with his future I started to get more and more The White Pine siding is produced with the hearing the machines running, production of wardrobes and requests for using the PH260 pla- 4-sided PH 260 planer moulder. they do not vibrate a lot and the salmon. * ner- moulder,” ends Mr. Leroux.*

Innovative wood processing products - www.logosol.com - 7 days, there were no telepho- nes where he lived, and all work at the farm and in the forest were done by hand or with the use of horses. Bengt’s father was just as interested in new machines as Bengt later was to be. Öja was one of the first farms in the parish that was connec- ted to electricity, and in 1921 a telephone was installed. But the greatest sensation was when the first car in the district, a T-Ford, was acqui- red in 1926. ”Not even the district public prosecutor had a car. He only got one two years later,” Bengt remembers. Both sowing and sawing Ten years earlier, Bengt’s father sowed the seeds that today have become a forest of stately trees. In 1931 it was time for the first thin- ning, and by this time Bengt was a grown-up man who took part in the job using his axe. Ten years later it was time for thinning the forest again due to the Second World War. “During the war, felling trees for firewood was pro- With some ingenuity, Bengt Kastensson manages to handle his sawmill, even though he nowadays walks with the help of hibited. However, you were a Zimmer frame. allowed to thin the forest and then use what you got as firewood,” Bengt remem- bers. Is 93-year-old Bengt the oldest As time went on, Bengt took over the farm and in the world? came very near to being the active Logosol sawyer first in the district to have a Bengt Kastensson was 81 years old when he bought a Logosol Sawmill in tractor. He signed a contract 1995. Twelve years later, he continues sawing. “I have never been able to sit in 1942, but they did not have one to deliver. After still,” says Bengt, 93 years old and probably the oldest active Logosol sawyer Logosol SWEDEN the war the waiting list for in the world. tractors was so long that he had to wait until 1947. In the Every year, Bengt has or- rin have taken over the farm, Two years ago, he traded in lean on my stick,” Bengt 1950’s, he was one of the dered chains, bars and one but Bengt and his sawmill his clearing saw for one of says. first who bought a chainsaw. or two spare parts. No one still live there. the latest model. The dea- He is not foreign to novel- ”That was the best purcha- at Logosol had reflected on Many elderly are interested ler wondered if that was so ties. In his pocket he has a se I have ever done,” Bengt his age; not until last spring, in owning a sawmill, but wise, considering Bengt’s mobile phone, and he fol- says. when he himself brought up age and that he nowadays abstain due to their age. lows with interest everything With the help of the the subject. uses a Zimmer frame. But new that comes. No genera- chainsaw he could manage First with the most Bengt bought it anyway. He was born, has grown up tion has experienced so great the felling single-handed, and is still living on the farm ”I think they argue wrong. ”The new one is held by a changes as Beng and his age instead of selling standing Öja outside the town Aneby When you are old, you have sling, which enables me to group. He was born in 1914, timber. There were plenty of in Sweden. His son Ingemar time to do what you think is manoeuvre it with one hand the same year as the First tall trees of the right quality and his daughter-in-law Ka- fun,” Bengt says. while I use my other hand to World War broke out. Those for power line poles and

8 Innovative wood processing products - www.logosol.com - lamp posts. The poles and posts gave a good income to the one who felled his own trees. “I calculated that I earned 2.15 (Swedish) kronor an hour from the farming. When I cut trees for poles and posts, I earned 12 kronor an hour,” Bengt states. An amazing experience But he never cut up the trees he felled. The sawing the farm required was done by a nearby water sawmill. As a senior ci- tizen, he started to think about how you actually do when you cut up trees and how the trees look like underneath the bark. Curiosity made him buy a Logo- sol Sawmill, one of the first that was equipped with the electric saw E5000. “It was an amazing experience cutting your first board,” Bengt says. Many boards later, the sawing is mainly leisure and fun. As soon as logs are delivered home, he stands by the sawmill. The sawmill is in original condition, and the only things replaced are consumable items and the con- trol panel for the electric saw unit. “My father was the first in the district who bought a car and installed a telephone,” says Bengt Kastensson, who was the first in the district to buy a Logosol Sawmill. ”After the storms Gudrun and Per there was a lot to saw. Gud- run mostly took trees that suf- fered from rot. Per hit us worse. In that storm, seed trees that we had planned to save were felled,” says Bengt, who is concerned about the strange weather. “For as long as I can remember, the rain and wind have never been as violent as nowadays. Some of the logs he cut come from the forest his father planted 91 years ago. Not everyone is privileged to follow pines and spruces from seeds to harvest, and even fewer have the privi- lege of sawing them up. *

”When you are old, you have time to do what you think is fun,” says Bengt Kastensson, 93 years old, and still active with his sawmill.

Innovative wood processing products - www.logosol.com - 9 John Arnett (right) puts a board through the PH260 to test the knife settings. His brother Ron (center) and nephew Zach watch the outfeed.

The Arnett brothers starting a business with Logosol PH260 “There’s money to be made with this machine”

I met brothers John and Ron Arnett at the Logosol open house in Jackson, job refinishing bleachers in a bit for the Arnett brothers Mississippi last summer. They had just finished a job resurfacing the a gymnasium. What he bid since we met at the Open bleachers in a local high school gymnasium and were looking for ideas on on the school job was double House. They visited seve- other ways to use the PH260 in their business. So how were they doing? the price of the Logosol, so ral local lumber yards, one I drove up to their business near the tiny northwest Missouri town of we knew we could buy it of which produced its own and pay for it and put the moulding on a high produc- Philadelphia to find out. Coming in from the blowing snow, the first order other half in our pocket. We tion six-head machine. of business was to “inspect” their old pot-bellied wood stove. took the old boards off, ran The owner showed Ron a them through the Logosol sample of his moulding and By David Boyt to clean them up, applied a asked what he thought of new polyurethane finish, and it. “It had ripples in it and The shop is a 40’ by 60’ it is not cluttered, and ma- them a little spending mo- put them right back in place. some tear-out. I think he sheet metal building hou- terial flows easily from one ney, and it keeps them out of John and I had our kids, may have pushed it through sing a variety of production machine to the next one. All trouble.” While my hands plus three nieces and nep- the machine too fast,”, said equipment, including table guards and shields in place, thawed out over the wood hews up there helping. We Ron. “John told him that in saws, radial arm saws, a and the Arnetts have added stove, Ron talked about his brought the Logosol to the our shop, trim that looked band resaw and, of course to them to make it almost experiences with the PH260. school and set it up right in like that went into the wood the gymnasium with a rotary their PH260 moulder/planer. impossible to get a finger “There’s money to be made stove. John is a little too three-phase converter and The Arnett brothers have near the blade. “When we with this machine,” he says. direct, sometimes!” His dust collector.” After that, put a lot of thought into the start our next production “We bought it about this direct approach, followed up they started to look for other flow of materials when they run, we plan to have some of time last year [Feb 2007]. with some samples of trim ways to use the machine. arranged their machines. our kids working with us.” My brother John found it on from the Logosol convinced Although the shop is small, explained Ron. “It gives the internet, and we got a Things had changed quite the owner of the lumber yard

10 Innovative wood processing products - www.logosol.com - John Arnett installs a set of knives for a new trim pattern. He says it takes about thirty minutes to change the knives.

John Arnett and his brother Ron inspect a test piece from the PH260. Ron’s son Zach is John Arnett inspects a piece of trim against the pattern. learning about the business. The brothers have found that keeping a close eye on quality has had a tremendous effect on their business. to shut down his production machine. “They [the knives] band resaw sits next to the moulder and buy his trim are expensive,” says Ron, Logosol. “When we started from the Arnett brothers. ‘but we’ve got more on or- it up, the lights in the shop “This looks like a good, der.” To sharpen the blades, just dimmed.” recalls Ron. long-term job for us,” says they send them out to a local “We’ve got an electrician Ron. sharpening shop. coming in tomorrow to put Ron and John make trim According to John, it takes in some heavier wiring for rings that they can leave about 30 minutes to change us.” They are also conside- with potential customers. the knives. The focus is on ring installing a chip bailer. This is a set of 8 inch sam- producing a high-quality “Hopefully when we do that, ple trim sections on a short product. we’ll be able to sell the sha- length of chain. Ron writes vings for bedding. There’s “We generally run this money to be made here, but the knife numbers on the at the slowest feed rate-- I back of each piece for refe- you have to look at every think its about 11 linear possible aspect of it, inclu- rence. “When a customer feet per minute-- to give the wants a certain piece of trim, ding the waste,” says Ron. smoothest cut. We don’t “By this time next year, he can read off the numbers, push it,” said Ron. “I think and I know exactly how we’d like to be in a building the lumber company pro- twice this size.” One thing to set up the machine,” he bably lost quality because said. Matching trim is also is certain—the PH260 will they were pushing the trim be in it! According to Ron, a strong selling point. “We Ron Arnett shows the final trim test piece. They are now through their machine to “We hope that the Logosol just trace around the trim on ready to start production. fast. They were set up like a lasts a long time, but at the a piece of trim and fax that factory,” he concluded. to Logosol’s knife maker, same time, we hope to keep someone who has been suc- quality product. “The big- and he can grind a set of bla- The positive response to it busy enough that we wear cessful. Ron says that the gest thing is don’t feed the des for that profile.” More the quality of their products it out!” best approach is always to customer a bunch of bull. than a dozen pattern knives has resulted in a few chan- There’s nothing better be honest with your custo- Just be yourself and show hang on the wall behind the ges around the shop. A new than words of wisdom from mer and produce a good ‘em what you’ve got.” *

Innovative wood processing products - www.logosol.com - 11 The Logosol Sawmill has become a part of Russian culture The sales to Russia have steadily increased, and today Russia can compete with the US when it comes to being the largest export market. At the same pace, the exploitation of people and machines has decreased, and today Russia is a country which in many ways resembles Sweden. A growing number of people buy themselves a Logosol Sawmill for fun.

Vladimir Konenkov and Irina Laguta work for Logosol in Russia, and are responsible for a retailer network that extends as far as the Pacific Ocean. Logosol RUSSIA

Nowadays, Logosol is have measured temperatures name of the Siberian store is is found in the fact that the some parts of Russia, e.g. in cooperating with the import down to –70°C (- 94°F). Swedish Quality. old collective farms, the the Ural Mountains and in company Absolut in St. Pe- Why do 210 000 people live Private woodlands kolkhozes, have ceased to Archangelsk. tersburg. The business goes in such a cold city? work, and today they are The ground is marshy in under the name of Logosol There are three important like ordinary villages. Each ”There are large diamond reasons for the increase these parts. Due to this, they Rus, and it has two employ- deposits there,” Vladimir kolkhoz formerly had a traditionally fell trees in ees: Vladimir Konenkov and and change of quality of sawmill. Now, they are worn states. Logosol’s sales in Russia. autumn and then collect the Irina Laguta. Their market out and no one is responsible timber in winter when the But Siberia also has sum- Russia is the most wooded extends as far as the Pacific for them. Today they are ground is frozen. Ocean. mers, and there are trees. country in the world, but the being replaced by Logosol government owns almost all During the winter in The prices of sawn lumber Sawmills. ”The trouble is that we have shot up, and this makes woodland. Nearly 70 years 2006/2007 the ground frost rarely have the possibility to sawing your own lumber ago, a farm lease act was A changing climate never came. Felled timber visit our retailers and custo- more interesting. To a gro- introduced, which makes it The third reason emptied was left lying in the forests mers. It is simply too far wing number of people a possible to rent a forest for Logosol’s stock during the and ran the risk of getting away,” Vladimir says. Logosol Sawmill has beco- 70 years with the obligation spring in 2007, which resul- damaged. The visit of his dreams is me the solution. The diffe- to look after, thin and replant ted in customers waiting for Logosol Sawmills became to the retailer in Jatutsk in rence is that here, the custo- it. Russia is beginning to their sawmills all over the the solution to this, since the north-eastern Siberia, mers comes on a dog sledge have something similar to world. The change of clima- they are easy to bring out in the coldest inhabited place to the retailer to collect their private woodlands. te has dramatically changed the forest; and sawn lumber on Earth. In this region they sawmills. Translated, the The second explanation the forestry conditions in is easier to transport. *

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