Thin Kerf Band Sawmilling - A Carbon Reduction Giant

How much fun is it to get to write a book with your son about a huge environmental enhancement he is deeply involved in; thin kerf band sawmilling.  Here's the proposed cover:

You might not own a thin kerf, band sawmill but, if you're interested in practical environmental enhancements you'll like the following "sample story" written so users of the book (sawmill owners) can, without having to write something for themselves, tell others through the medium of the press, about the benefits they are bringing to community in operating a small sawmill business.

We expect to have the book available within the next 30 days.

 

Thin Kerf Sawmilling – An Environmentally Friendly Harvest

“Kerf” is the thickness of the cut a saw blade makes as it passes through wood fiber when lumber is milled.  The ratio of usable lumber to sawdust generated in sawmill operations has a direct relationship to kerf.  Thinner kerfs yield more lumber and generate less sawdust from a given volume of wood fiber.  Over the past quarter century very thin kerf, band sawmills, like those operated by (your business name here) capable of being operated by one or two people have become increasingly important tools in the worldwide quest to achieve numerous environmental goals commonly held to be of value by both governments and peoples of this earth. 

The environmental advantages of thin kerf sawmilling are substantial and demonstrable.  As just one example, former United States Forest Service researcher, Stephen Bratkovich of the Service’s  Northeastern Area State and Private Forestry division, found, based on a study in Missouri that, “We could save the equivalent of 69 million trees annually,” based on the increase in recovery efficiency thin kerf sawmilling offers.  Those unharvested trees, according to Bratkovich at the time of the study, would continue to absorb about 900,000 tons of carbon dioxide and produce about 650,000 tons of oxygen each year as they continue to grow.  Similar studies at sawmills in other places, including Russia, have produced similar findings.

From an environmental standpoint the source of much of the lumber sawn on thin kerf equipment is more important than the quantity.  Sawmills operated by companies like (your name) are more

often than not milling high quality lumber from logs and other tree parts

conventional sawmills cannot, or will not, accept – lumber that would, absent the services of a thin kerf sawmill, be left in the woods to rot, be turned into firewood, or otherwise under utilized.

Numerous Benefits Create Important Environmental Enhancements

Since even small changes in the atmospheric carbon balance are believed by some to have significant impacts on the earth’s climate, portable sawmills can, and do, play an important role in some of the carbon mitigation strategies many believe to be critical in reducing atmospheric carbon.  Some of the reduction strategies thin kerf mills have proved to be invaluable in pursuing include:

Thin Kerf Sawmilling – An Environmentally Friendly Harvest

“Kerf” is the thickness of the cut a saw blade makes as it passes through wood fiber when lumber is milled.  The ratio of usable lumber to sawdust generated in sawmill operations has a direct relationship to kerf.  Thinner kerfs yield more lumber and generate less sawdust from a given volume of wood fiber.  Over the past quarter century very thin kerf, band sawmills, like those operated by (your business name here) capable of being operated by one or two people have become increasingly important tools in the worldwide quest to achieve numerous environmental goals commonly held to be of value by both governments and peoples of this earth. 

The environmental advantages of thin kerf sawmilling are substantial and demonstrable.  As just one example, former United States Forest Service researcher, Stephen Bratkovich of the Service’s  Northeastern Area State and Private Forestry division, found, based on a study in Missouri that, “We could save the equivalent of 69 million trees annually,” based on the increase in recovery efficiency thin kerf sawmilling offers.  Those unharvested trees, according to Bratkovich at the time of the study, would continue to absorb about 900,000 tons of carbon dioxide and produce about 650,000 tons of oxygen each year as they continue to grow.  Similar studies at sawmills in other places, including Russia, have produced similar findings.

From an environmental standpoint the source of much of the lumber sawn on thin kerf equipment is more important than the quantity.  Sawmills operated by companies like (your name) are more

often than not milling high quality lumber from logs and other tree parts

conventional sawmills cannot, or will not, accept – lumber that would, absent the services of a thin kerf sawmill, be left in the woods to rot, be turned into firewood, or otherwise under utilized.

Numerous Benefits Create Important Environmental Enhancements

Since even small changes in the atmospheric carbon balance are believed by some to have significant impacts on the earth’s climate, portable sawmills can, and do, play an important role in some of the carbon mitigation strategies many believe to be critical in reducing atmospheric carbon.  Some of the reduction strategies thin kerf mills have proved to be invaluable in pursuing include:

Substituting wood products for more energy intensive products and reducing demand for energy in growing timber, harvesting timber, and wood processing;

Reducing carbon emissions in wildfires;

Afforestation of marginal crop land and pasture to forest, reducing conversion of forest land to non-forest use, and increased agroforestry;

Improved forest and habitat management;

Reduced harvest in healthy forests; 

Increasing the proportion and retention of carbon in durable wood products;

Allows landowners of all financial means to affordably manage their land to achieve both environmental enhancements and financial goals.

Affordable thin kerf, portable, sawmills were perfected and brought to market about the same time companies like Microsoft and Apple began their corporate lives.  In the intervening years sawmills like the one (your name) utilizes to mill lumber, millwork, timbers, and other forest products have become widely recognized as being one of the most significant of all locally based tools in achieving greenhouse gas emission reductions as well as national, regional and local goals for waste reduction, reuse, and recycling.