| The most unique
gift your best customers ever get should come from you. An action-packed look at an industrial survivor.  Presented in awesome 5.1 Dolby Surround-Sound. To watch preview scenes, just click on the box above. Requires Windows Media Player. To download the free Windows Media Player, click here. A video no one ever forgets!!
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Contractors...Truck
drivers...Sales staff...Engineers...anyone using heavy equipment
goes NUTS for this DVD...(and so do their kids)! The perfect business gift.
The "star" of the show is a big commercial mill built in the 1930's from "spare parts". The DVD shows exactly how everything was done back in the days of our great-grandfathers. It also shows how modern forest practices strive to care for the health of our forest resource. |
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Screaming machines, gut instinct, quick decisions
and steam power. Sawmill action the way it once was.
Hidden away in
the lush forest of Oregon's Coastal Range is a 1930’s-era
sawmill almost untouched by time.
Every morning the steam whistle of the feisty
Hull-Oakes Lumber Company echoes off the nearby trees.
The vintage steam-powered equipment is again
fired-up to process old-fashioned long and large timber of Douglas fir
for the
world market. Explore all the details of this fascinating mill... from log pond to head rig...from steam engines and boilers right down to the old straddle-carriers that scoot around the lumber yard. You’ll crawl underneath for rare views of the mill works. You’ll
venture into the woods with the
loggers for a first-hand look at forest operations.
Thoroughly
entertaining and educational. 117-minutes. This is a real passport to another time…and another place. |
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Click here to watch scenes from STEAM-POWER SAWMILL. (This is a Windows Media File.) For your business this is THE holiday gift (or year round gift) for all the special clients, buyers, and suppliers that keep your business humming. With a personalized "thank you" sticker on the box, they will always remember your company. Order any amount....no limits small or large. Order 250 copies and we'll create a special cover that promotes your company. Order 500 copies and we will produce a short video sequence about your company they will see every time they pop it into their player. The program retails for $24.95. Call or email Rob to discuss options and pricings. (818.268.6530)
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just click here. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  Right here were buildings, equipment, and practices that had been preserved as if locked in a time-warp. No computers... no lasers. No communications radios...or software manuals. It's all hand-signals and hand-controlled machinery. Somehow these ancient back-woods practices survived intact. And these old methods are still being handed down from one generation to the next...one man to another...as if this were the days of our great-grandfathers.. The steam powered carriage rolling past the head rig slicing off new boards like sticks of soft butter. The edger man adjusting each spinning blade of the edger saw by hand. The chain "jump rolls" where the boards directed to other parts of the mill. The saw-filer's room. The forest yarding site. The "straddle carriers". Isn't it funny how most day-to-day activities seem so "common" or "normal" to us, they often don't get documented. The years go by... and little by little... things change. Suddenly one day, everyone realizes that no one can remember how something was done just two generations ago. Traditions, techniques, and skills that were perfected by trial and error over many generations are suddenly lost. Steam-Power Sawmill preserves all the old sawmill action for all time. Presented in 5.1 Dolby Surround Sound, Steam-Power Sawmill is a cutting-edge viewing event for everyone. (If you'll pardon the expression.) Robert Simpson
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Lumber Company in Oregon is one of the few places left on the planet
that can process long and large logs of Douglas Fir into highly prized
lumber ...lumber that is sold all the world over. And it does so with
steam power.
This video explores this mountain mill site as if you are on an archaeological expedition uncovering technical secrets from another era.  Part One of Steam-Power Sawmill: Climb aboard a 1st generation diesel train and ride the 100-year-old rail line through the forest into our industrial past. The Hull-Oakes Lumber Company with its old buildings and sheds provide a frozen-in-time backdrop to the bustling lumberyard. As you scan the activity, the mill's fascinating history is revealed. Part Two: You are whisked away to the high country to see contemporary logging in action. You'll see
 Part Three:
Brings you back to the mill as the logs splash into the old-style log pond. You'll follow them through the mill as they are turned into lumber, and finally onto the waiting freight cars. You'll also explore the dark "underworld" of the mill ...a maze of belts and chains leading to the steam engines that run the equipment above. There are so many amazing sights ...from the boiler room …to the big de-barker …to the old straddle carriers that scoot around the lumberyard. Because there's always something different to see, Steam-Power Sawmill is not only entertaining, it is educational as well. With all the action going on, even young children find it fascinating. -
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Would you like to watch preview scenes, from the DVD? Just click on the box. Requires Windows Media Player. To download the free Windows Media Player, click here.  STEAM-POWER SAWMILL The sawmill that time forgot. SPECIAL PRICES for businesses. 117-min DVD featuring 5.1 Dolby Surround Sound $24.95 Add STEAM-POWER SAWMILL to your Instant Shipping cart, click here. Show me my shipping cart. I want to PRINT an order form that I can fax or mail in the old-fashioned way. |
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