McShan Lumber Company has a long history in this part of the country, dating back to 1844 when Feaster McShan moved to Alabama from South Carolina. 4 0 obj Were small. Dixon Lumber already had a VAB Solutions grader-optimizer at the planer mill, so they already had a relationship with the SmartMill principals. Copyright 2021 Lassiter Lumber, LL - All Rights Reserved. It also is virtually maintenance free.

locating site preparation contractors and tree planting services). The company also sells 14 rough green lumber, but 94 percent of its production consists of the timbers and 2x dimension lumber, kiln-dried and surfaced four sides.

By 1907 Nathan had a cotton gin which was powered by a steam engine. When his father decided to retire, Bob bought the business from his father and uncle in 2002. All production is Southern yellow pine. A new SmartMill stacker was scheduled to be installed in mid-June. Jean assured the Dixon Lumber team that the SmartMill staff would ensure the lug loader would perform up to expectations, or they would remove it. The lumber is turned on ASM chains and feeds into a new Baxley servo feeder and down grade chain into the SmartMill Smart Fence to be positioned for the best trimming solution. Most fences utilize rollers to move the board, he noted.

Another objective was to control labor. 82W.We are past the VAB Solutions, a company dedicated to sawmill and planer mill optimization processes using machine vision and artificial intelligence, was founded by Jean Brub and Marc Voyer in 2005 and was purchased by Timber Automation in 2018. Located in Brewton, Alabama, T. R. Miller Mill Company, Inc. is one of the oldest, privately held, forest product companies in business today.

The chains introduce each board into a lug. Over the next 10 years he focused on production, technology, plant maintenance, and products. Highly accurate and requiring only a tiny footprint, these systems have been operating in mills for over 15 years. Dixon Lumber Company was founded in 1928 by the late Mack Dixon, grandfather of the current owner, Robert Dixon Jr., 59. The Smart Lug Loader relies on a rotary system coupled with air activated tongs to grip boards one by one and release them on a set of speed chains. Dixon Lumber reached annual production of 100 million board feet through efficiencies without a capital project expansion. OmERZJQ2N]Yk(rXK]G |W`P_ f.|&v+JWzCim Q4@7dS7! 9F|^@f/*v !b[)9:R!wm*a 3)RBD:mZa`55H"B mYo3tgX6!g='~{Z iB(ycBh S}rQ6 Dixon Lumber is located in Eufaula in southeast Alabama, about 45-50 miles south of Columbus, Georgia. DhaILF%fQiH+7` 7OQ+MhYU-5 ~R. HYstC. In 1898 the town of McShan was so named in honor of Feaster McShan and his sons, including Nathan. Dixon Lumber has three Teaford batch dry kilns with combined capacity of about 335,000 board feet per charge. Our fence is more accurate than any other fence in the industry, he said, within 1/10-inch. The entire management team came down with the virus. Dixon Lumber supplies timbers to companies that treat them with preservatives and sell them to big box home improvement stores and lumber yards like Home Depot, Lowes, 84 Lumber, and even smaller lumber yards. The company also has a strong safety program and a good safety record, said Jeff. Every lug is filled, so the sorter speed can be reduced, minimizing wear and jams. Logs are unloaded by a Progress 2010 radial crane that is also used to place them on a five-strand log infeed deck. We cant compete with the big guys. McShan Lumber is a family owned sawmill that has been manufacturing quality southern yellow pine lumber since 1907. For the planer mill, Dixon Lumber contracted with individual suppliers. The company followed guidance from the Centers for Disease Control, so most employees who contracted the virus were out of work for 10 dayseven though some were only mildly ill. We were 30 people short at one point, said Jeff. ?wp6-QC9N=e UtcMStU_,m9Pzf%UySBBYdU+wN',t;VC%K K':o vO2*/nb>\$|G6ax %Aq,W$cQp54uvt>EZc$EST\3?d-Q=yTMm:$NiYD= FzPQv5s w.&M&\4H x7NZwwgoZ>R;`y~\ '/Y?EZ^ZBzyu=O?.s$f&- |-);b#D[Zz"!?y~O}vtcH+Y_9mymhC-mHk*{wD+D:4

Log optimizers from Nelson Brothers Engineering feature true dollar-driven solutions with real-shape edge wane, face wane and additional restricted length wane for added control of saddle wane conditions. The Smart Lug loader only requires one worker to oversee it while most mills with other machines have two or three workers stationed there, he noted. He moved the business from Clayton to Eufaula in 1936, and it operated a concentration yard and planer mill. The Dixon Lumber log optimizer was provided by Robert Cecil, a licensed representative for Nelson Brothers Engineering. Bob also began leading the family timber and land business, which he grew with organic logging crews and also purchasing gate wood logs from independent logging contractors. * h+x4-b*j v8@u. Contact us first when you have timber to sell. )MVsNFaLo?C(O| We pride ourselves on doing things very safely even if its slower.. After trimming the lumber goes to the new Baxley 29-bin sorter system, and the bays of lumber are assembled by a MoCo stacker. Much has changed around the Melrose plantation and McShan Lumber Company since those days.

Miller has control of every step in the process of manufacturing our wood products.

T. R. Millers sawmill is one of the 150 largest softwood lumber manufacturers in the U.S. For over 149 years, T. R. Miller has been producing various grades of quality Southern Yellow Pine lumber to meet any customer need. One such employee is Ralph Baker, an accountant who is 85. Dixon Lumber Company has weathered some storms that assailed the forest products industry. The company suffered continuous monthly losses in the third and fourth quarter and then the first quarter of 2008, and Bob closed the mill temporarily. Timberline Magazine is a monthly publication of Industrial Reporting Inc. Alabama SYP Producer All Geared Up For Making 4x, 6x Timbers for Montana Lumber Company Takes the Initiative To Spread the Word About Forest Management, Sawmill Owner Builds Creative Creekside Guest Cabin, Maine Man Does It All with Wood: Logging, Sawmilling, and Firewood, Wisconsin Trucking Contractor Expands By Adding Timber Harvesting Operations, Growing Wisconsin Logger Continues Focus on Good Forest Management. Robert Dixon Jr. (Bob) began working in the business with his father and uncle in 1988. SmartMill also offers custom automated machinery solutions. %PDF-1.2 /CreationDate (D:20050922094044-04'00') stream And it actually grabs the board and holds it and then lets it go.. The process begins with purchasing quality logs that are milled with In 2013, Canfor Southern Pine purchased Scotch Gulf Lumber and its three Alabama sawmills. >> Which is hard to do, noted Jeff. Eufaula borders the Chattahoochee River, which separates the two states. % << Our friendly and knowledgeable foresters and timber buyers will work closely with landowners to bid and buy standing pine timber. He has by far done the best job of trying to keep us satisfied and keep us happy with the product. SmartMill employees worked on the project night and day until the new system reached peak performance, said Jeff. The SmartMill Smart Fence, which positions the board for correct trimming, can fence or move the board as little as 0 to 12 inches per axis, noted Mike. (For more information about SmartMill, visit www.smartmill.ca or call (903) 277-0877.). '>xO*?i[YT;:zi\_f7t)Bhh1WEYGnu}DRG:{:X kWQgZ],j&. We are located in Choctaw County, Alabama, in the community of Cullomburg. The company supplies chips to three paper mills a Georgia-Pacific mill in Cedar Springs, and West Rock mills in Cottonton, Alabama, and Panama City, Florida. He also increased timber purchases and increased the number of customers in the companys land management program. Shavings from the planer mill are supplied to an Enviva pellet mill in Cottondale, Florida. Dixon Lumber also ships 8-10 railroad cars of material per week to markets in the Northeast mostly to New York and Massachusetts. SmartMill designs, manufactures, and installs automated state-of-the-art equipment that is customizable to preserve and even increase the profitability of its customer companies. Dixon Lumber buys tree-length pine logs, minimum 26 feet, with 9-14-inch butts and down to a 5-inch top. Reports automatically track the effects of any parameter changes to support evaluations of varied what-if scenarios. That month, an office employee who does payroll unknowingly contracted the coronavirus. quality equipment, which is operated by dedicated employees. The end result is what customers have wanted for the last 109 years - quality lumber. They also feature scan data save-to-disk ability with replay features of all saved scan files as well as log simulation capability. (Other SmartMill systems can fence up to 4 feet.) Timber prices were relatively good and were going to continue an upward trend, noted Jeff. About 60 percent of the companys production is supplied to lumber treating companies within trucking distance, under 200 miles. The cant then moves to a Cone quad saw box to remove side boards, then to a Cone spline remover. Canfor Southern Pine has over 15 sawmills in Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and North and South Carolina. This efficient, affordable lug loader system provides a constant flow of boards into the lug chain, and there is no need for a dedicated operator. infeed and six-roll planer to surface four sides.

Learn about our history and understand what drives T.R. Dixon Lumber chose the SmartMill Smart Lug Loader to replace a machine in the sawmill because it wanted to increase throughput by filling every lug with a board instead of leaving empty lugs going through the trimmer, said Mike Morris, regional director for SmartMill. The company installed its first stationary sawmill on its property in the early 1950s. /Length 5 0 R This Family owned mill has a reputation for producing a product that is second to none. Now a high-tech sawmill produces high quality lumber with just a fraction of the hard labor that was required years ago. It was a minimal investmentNot a whole lot of risk there. The company started with one shift and gradually increased to two shifts.

Finally, a Cone vertical saw arbor can remove multiple top or bottom boards, leaving the timber at the center. (800)633-6740 outside AL (800)672-1614 Inside AL (251)867-4331 direct line (251)867-6882 Fax LineMail@trmillermill.com. /Creator (pdfFactory Pro www.pdffactory.com) We have a very low turnover rate. A few employees have worked for all three generations of the Dixon family. The machine can perform at high speeds and fill 99+% of the lugs at the sorter chains for green or dressed lumber mills. He asked for a couple of weeks to get it done, and he did. When material exits the planer it is scanned by a VAB linear optimizer using tracheid and artificial technologies to grade the board, and then it travels down an ASM belt to an ASM slow-down belt. In 1872, ownership changed and the mill operation was incorporated as T. R. Miller Mill Company. << About this time, another family (the Sparkmans) purchased nearby Melrose Plantation, which consisted of 2,000 acres. 33 24.142N, 088 07.236W, Located in west central Alabama on U.S. Hwy 82. We are happy to bid on pine standing timber from Mississippi and Alabama. After debarking the logs go through a LogPro five-saw merchandising system to be cut to length. The lumber travels along a series of ASM chains to a Miller Mfg. VAB Machines was founded in 2014 as a separate entity to design and fabricate innovative and specialized sawmill handling equipment. Dixon Lumber expanded into production of 5/4 decking and high grade boards to complement its other lumber products. Not only did Cedar Creek power the mill, it also transported logs from the vast pine forest along its upper reaches and floated the sawn timbers to Pensacola, Florida for export. Canfor Southern Pine is proud to partner with private landowners in the U.S. South who are interested in selling their timber. Southern Yellow Pine logs are in high demand! Our niche is small.. endobj We manage over 20 experienced logging crews for our sawmills in Fulton, Jackson and Mobile. The Smart Fence precisely positions lumber of all dimensions with excellent speed. Lassiter Lumber Co., Inc.) has been manufacturing Southern Yellow Pine lumber for 109 years, specializing in high quality dressed and export products. Brub, now president, and Danick Dupont, vice president, acquired 100 percent of the company a few years back and changed the name to SmartMill.