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I work at King Forest Products LLC, formerly Ellington Hardwood Lumber Inc. I started April 28, 1996. I went to lumber grading school for 3 months in Memphis, TN and returned as a lumber inspector. I was the lumber inspector until about 2001 and then I became the head sawyer. For the last few years I was also the saw filer, working after hours and weekends on the edger saws and chipper knives.

Here are some pictures from work.(they are thumbnailed, click them for bigger version)

Here's the saw cab, where I sit for 8 hours a day.

inside the cab looking at the saw.

the bull-edger.

down to the green chain, where the lumber is graded and sorted. I used to stand on the chain all day when I was the lumber inspector.

A view of the messy sawshop, where I used to maintain the saws.

another view.

A edger saw on a grinding machine.

two sets of bull edger saws.

Here is a series of pictures for a big softmaple log I sawed.