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News for the Outdoor Craftsman No. 1 - 2008

Richard Dunmore found thisreal challange in Strelley, nearNottingham.

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A real challange!

The Logosol recipe

for a sharp chain

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www.logosol.com

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

Beautiful woodworking

Runo Johansson bought thenew joinery machines fromLogosol. His greenhouse

Growpoint attracts attentiondue to its appearance and itbeing a room for both plants

and people.

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When you areold, you have timeto do what you

think is fun, saysBengt Kastensson,93 years old, andstill active with his

sawmill.Page 8-9

Its NeverToo Late...

Arnett brothers Ron and John inspect a test piece to make sure the knivesare correctly set. With the Logosol PH260 they will start a business.

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Growing business


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Publisher: Logosol Inc

Editor: David Boyt

Editorial Page Editor: Sara Bostrm

Translations:Anna Olsgren Bystrm

Special thanks all Logosol friendswho helps us make Fresh Cut better!

Fresh Cut is printed in 30 000 copies

and comes out twice a year.

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EDITORIAL STAFF

Dear Woodworkers and Friends of Logosol,Welcome to this Fresh, new issue of

FRESH CUT!

It has been a long, rough winter and I think

many of you are very anxious to start up your

spring woodworking projects.

Attached to the Fresh Cut youll nd the

Spring Campaign.

Starting April 1st and lasting for the entire

month It will be an opportunity for you to

purchase your necessary woodworking equip-

ment before our upcoming price adjustment

which will take place May 1st.

I want to mention that we provide 100%

nancing opportunities through our nanc-

ing partners check our web site for further

information. Believe me, they are very eager

to lend you the money.

I also want to take the opportunity to thank

our OWNERS NEAR YOU, - our network of

customers who work with us in sharing their

experiences with their Logosol Woodworking

equipment. If you are considering purchasing

a sawmill or a Planer/Moulder, dont hesitate

to contact them they like to share their expe-

riences.

There are always a lot of things going on

at Logosol. Just recently we increased our

selection of Knives to our Planer/Moulders.

We have the new Carpentry Planer/Moulder

Program in place and have started to deliverour new Chain Sharpening Robot already a

proven success! It ts perfectly into the Lo-

gosol program of efcient and professional

woodworking equipment affordable for the

small-scale woodworker!

More innovative products are in the pipeline.

Be sure to check in on a regular base.

Unfortunately, the Owners Forumon our

web site has been down for a period of time,

and Ive been Stunned at all of the calls and

E-mails we have received from our dear cus-

tomers expressing their worries and asking

questions about it. The problems we have ex-

perienced emanates from the host server. In

this writing moment, we are still working hard

to get it up again, including trying to recover

all its history. We are in the process of mov-

ing the Forum to another host server, so that

hopefully its up running again by the time you

read this. Even if we are not able to recover all

history, I promise that we will have a Forum in

place!

Thanks for your patience!

You are also invited to our Open Housein

Spring Green, Wisconsin, on April 26. It will

be a great opportunity to meet with our Expert

Charlie Grifn and to check out some of our

new machines as well as the proven work-

horse, the PH260. Please see inside for more

information. Hope to see you there!

Once again, Welcome

to this issue of Fresh

Cut and I hope you will

enjoy it.

Olof Almstrom,President

Logosol Inc.

Filing a chain by hand is quite anart. Due to this many choose to

buy a sharpening machine. Butit is not sure that the machinesolves all problems. If you do itwrong you can, on the contrary,destroy the chain. The secret be-hind a good sharpening result isto have correct angles and a clea-

ned sharpening disc. Most peopleknow about the angles, but howlong was it since you cleaned thesharpening disc?

When you are sharpening, me-tal chips get caught in the shar-

pening disc with the result thatyou are sharpening metal withmetal. This leads to overheating,says Pr Markusson, who hasconstructed Logosols sharpeningrobot.

With the sharpening robot

comes an abrasive stone. It isused for rounding off the disc,removing impure material andexposing new grinding material.If you make a practice of clea-ning the grinding disc beforeeach time you sharpen the chain,you will get a signicantly bet-ter result. It will not take many

seconds.It is equally important that you

round off the edge of the disc. Itshould have the same shape as around le. If you fail to do this,

you will in time create a sharpgash under the cutting tooth,which can result in a brokenchain. On the market there aregrinding discs that are marketedas more or less maintenance-free. This is, however, not true.Regardless of what disc you use,

metal chips will get caught in it,which leads to overheating.

If the tooth becomes red whileyou are sharpening it, the discis not up to par or it needs to becleaned, says Pr.

He runs the company Markus-son Development, which hasdeveloped a professional shar-

pening robot that, among otherthings, is used for sharpeningharvester chains. Logosols shar-

pening robot is a smaller versionof the professional machine.

We have tested many grindingdiscs. The disc that comes withthe sharpening robot is the bestavailable on the market. One ofthe advantages with it is that iseasy to clean and shape so that italways gives you the best result,says Pr. *

Logosols sharpening robot has solved a lot of

sawing problems. It works even better if you

clean and shape it regularly.

A dull or incorrectly sharpened chain is themost common cause of problems when you

are sawing. The best remedy is Logosolssharpening robot and regular cleaning andshaping of the grinding disc.

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The recipe for a sharp chain:

Clean and shape the grinding

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Per-Arne makes a living byrenovating and building loghouses, and manufacturingwindows. He lives south ofVetlanda in Sweden. At themoment, he is building a loghome of 270 square met-res (approx. 2900 ft2). Thecustomers name is PeterHall, and luckily he owns aLogosol PH260 four-cutter

planer/moulder.

Grind the knives often

The logs were cut withchain, circular saw blade andframe saw. It would not lookgood with all the different

sawing surfaces, says Per-Arne.

He phoned Logosol andasked if it is all right to use

the four-cutter for planingbeams that are up to 8 x12 inch. The answer wasYes, if you know what youare doing. Per-Arne knewwhat he was doing and wentahead with the project.

A couple of days laterLogosol received an e-mail.It was Per-Arne who senta photo he had taken withhis cellphone showing the

planing of a 12 metre long

beam with the measurements8 x 12. The photo had theaccompanying text: Sen-ding a photo of how to use aPH260.

It almost looks unreal whensuch a long and thick beamcomes out from this relati-vely small planing machine.

It was not only this beamthat was planed. Altogetherit was 2600 metres of thedimensions 6 and 8 inches.The only problem was thatlarge-diameter timber of thissize often has sand and dirtin the wood.

You have to have doublesets of knives and grindthem often, says Per-Arne.

Sawing is relaxing

Building a house of 270square metres is an extreme

project, even for an expe-rienced timberman as Per-Arne. Normally, he workswith smaller houses and pro-duces the timber on the spotusing his Logosol M7. Whenhe works on commissionhe uses a petrol chainsaw;at home he uses Logosols

bandsaw, about which he hasonly good things to say.

It works really well, hesays.

Per-Arne also runs a smalljoinery shop in which he

manufactures windows forhis house projects. Here,too, his home-cut timbercomes in handy. In addition,the Logosol M7 has anotheradvantage that is appreciated

by a craftsman.

Sawing is relaxing, some-how. And furthermore, I can

beat any sawmill when itcomes to measurements andsurface of the timber, saysPer-Arne Ragnarsson. *

2 600 metres of planed 8 x 12 inch timberWhat do you do when the building material you have consists of 2600 metres (8530 ft) of timber, sawn from large-diameter logs andby 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 Ragnarsson and Peter Hall are building a log house of 270 square metres.

This is the photo that Per-Arne took with his

cellphone , showing the planing of a 12 metre

long beam with the measurements 8 x 12.

Building a house of 270 square metres is an extreme project, even for an

experienced timberman as Per-Arne Ragnarsson.

Peter Hall is the customer, and he owns a Logosol PH260 four-

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Runos business concept isbuilt on the most importantthing in the world: the

photosynthesis. This is theprocess in which the energyfrom the sun helps green

plants to turn carbon dioxideand water into food.

We have to learn to workwith nature instead ofagainst it, says Runo, whoearly committed himself toenvironmental issues.

When he started to thinkabout the environment itwas considered bohemian.Today, the reality has caughtup with us. The Nobel PeacePrize was given to Al Goreand the UNs climate panel.Our shared environment isnow at the top of the agenda.

A room for learning

What distinguishes Runofrom most of us, is that hegoes further than talking andwriting. He created a roomfor learning in which the

prerequisite of life becomesevident and comprehensible.It is a greenhouse with thename GrowPoint.

The greenhouse is a self-supporting and very stronglatticework construction

whose design seems to ap-peal to most people. Stylish,is a common comment.Each building element isa triangle-shaped woodenframe with a transparentsheet of insulating polycar-

bonate. These elements areput together into a geodesicdome. The construction hasseveral advantages. It is pre-fabricated and thus easy toassemble. It stands wind and

weather much better thanconventional greenhouses,and it is tted up both for

plants and people.

In 18 square metres thereis room for about 5000 seed

plants, a table and ve

chairs. The GrowPoint

greenhouse is also a fantasticoutdoor room, Runo says.

The workshop burnt down

Its weather resistance wasproven when the storm Gud-run hit southern Sweden.The Swedish university ofagricultural sciences in Al-narp has a GrowPoint green-house in its rehabilitationgarden. The storm destroyeda lot, but on the greenhousethere were only a couple ofventilation hatches that weredamaged.

The entire construction andits function is well thought-out, but when the interestin it was about to turn intosales, something devastatinghappened. The production

building burnt down to theground. The entire stock andassembly of machinery wasdestroyed by re. Among the

things lost in the re was a

Logosol PH260 four-cutter

planer/moulder and an MF30 vertical milling machine.

A disaster of this propor-tion can make even the mostenthusiastic person give up.But this is not the case withRuno Johansson. While wai-ting for the workshop to berebuilt, he has rented a placein Limmared and purchasednew machines:

Choosing Logosol againcame naturally. If you have

any problem you can phoneLogosol for support, and youare always treated profes-sionally and friendly, saysRuno.

This time, due to economicreasons, the assembly ofmachinery became slightly

different. He bought themulti jointer/planer MH410,the table saw PS315, andalso the, to him, indispen-sable MF30.

separate machines

He chose separate machinesinstead of a combi machine,and this is Runos explana-tion:

The logistics in the work-shop becomes much betterwhen you have separate

machines. A combi mach-ine of the same quality is,strange as it may seem, moreexpensive to buy, saysRuno.

The machine he appre-ciates most is the verticalmilling machine. He usesthis to try out angles and

proles before they are put

in production. He also usesit for tenoning and routering.When he has found the rightshape, he orders knives and

starts producing in the multijointer/planer which is alsoequipped with a side cutter.

Two persons can operatethe machine at the sametime. One takes care of the

jointing operation and theother planes and moulds.I know that the four-cutter

planer/moulder gives morepossibilities and has morecapacity, but the verticalmilling machine is enough

for the wooden details that Ineed, says Runo.

The GrowPoint is manufac-tured in a couple of standardsizes starting from 15 squaremetres. Due to the exible

assembly of machinery hecan produce a great numberof furnishing options andvary the design according tocustomers desires.

The rst pilot series were

made of aluminium proles,

but Runo soon changed towood. It is a more naturalmaterial, which is apprecia-ted by the customers. The

building elements are madeof pine heartwood, larch oroak. The goal is, as far as

possible, to use timber fromhis own forest. This is whyhe has established a coopera-tion with a nearby company,

-sget in Limmared.

The next investment will beanother machine from Lo-gosol, the circular resaw KS150. The circular resaw willstreamline the processingof the beams that are madefrom his own timber.

Runos greenhouse inclu-des functions, thoughts andideas that would take several

pages to describe.Instead, we recommend avisit to the website of thecompany, www.growpoint.se. Finally, we give you aquotation, where Runo, in

poetic form, summarizes thethoughts behind his busi-ness:If we create environmentswhere butteries are pleased,

minds will be opened andmouths will be fed . *

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 theground. Now he has bought new machines from Logosol and got his businessgoing again.

As a customer, you can phone without fear of disturbing.

Runo Johansson explains why he chose joinery machinesfrom Logosol.


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The vertical milling machine is the best machine for an innovator. Here, Im trying out angles

and proles, Runo Johansson says about the Logosol MF30.

Richard Dunmore found a real challange in

Strelley, near Nottingham.

Dancing with danger, and working at full stretch

to make this cut.

Once in a while, something comes alongthat challenges even an experiencedwoodsman like Richard Dunmore fromUK. The ten-eyed Strelley monster wasthat challenge....

The ten-eyed

Strelley monster

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


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A modern harvester is tooexpensive for this type offorest, says Mr.Leroux, sowe work with conventio-nal chain saw and skiddermethods.

Farmers still nd it econo-mically benecial to transfer

forest land to agricultureland and we often get thistype of logging. In this area,man made forests startedearly on. Today you can nd

nice stands that were planted40 to 50 years ago.

Build a new house

There are some big trees

around. I cut ve White

Pines but needed two truckloads to move them. Theremust have been over 5,000

board feet between thoseve Pines.

In May last year my wifeand I decided to build anew house. After searchingthe market we decided to

purchase a Logosol PH260 4-sided planer moulder.

Through my work as alogger I have access to allsorts of logs, tells Mr.Leroux. I have a smallsawmill and saw White Pine,

Red Oak, Sugar Maple,Black Cherry. White Ash,Elm, you name it !

I extended my garage with

a wood shop where I keepthe PH260 and also dry mylumber. I heat the house andworkshop with an exteriorwood red furnace.

The exterior of our newhouse is covered withWhite Pine Siding. To usethe wood optimally, I used

both 8 inch and 6 inch wideboards that I run through thePH260.

I placed three 8 inch wide

boards in a row and then a 6inch wide board to make itlook nice.

To optimize the use of thewood is an important factorfor me, says Mr. Leroux.I can save a lot of money bydoing so.

I made the deck from localCedar that I rounded in the

planer. I planed the boards

when they were green butthey did not warp at all. Mywife and I decided to open aBed & Breakfast. We put inthree rooms with baths in the

basement, that we will rentout. They look out over the90 acre farm land where youoften see deer feeding.

Our community has anoutdoor summer theater andone problem has been forvisitors to nd a place to

stay. Hunters are also loo-king for local lodging in thearea during the fall. The Bed& Breakfast will be a nicecomplement to the income.I used my PH260 for all thewoodwork in the house, theRed Oak oor in the living

room. For the kitchen oor

I made narrow boards out ofMaple.

More and more requestsThe bedroom has a spec-tacular Black Cherry oor

that will only develop intonicer colours over the years.I saved smaller cut-offs andused a few basic knife cut-ters for all the patterns tosave money.

The bathroom is beautifullytrimmed with shorter cut-offs from the wood work.Mr. Leroux hopes to nish

I used my PH260for all

the woodwork in the house

The bathroom is beautifully nis-

hed using cut offs.

Mr. Raymond Leroux is the fourth generation growing up on his farmin Casselman, 50 km outside Ottawa in Ontario, Canada. He tookover the farm in 1979 and is now working as a professional logger onthe private woodlots in the local area.

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We are opening a B & B!

I try to use the same prole knives for many

products.

Red Oak in the living room.

The White Pine siding is produced with the

4-sided PH 260 planer moulder.

Wardrobes and salmon

Here, he makes sliding doorwardrobes and kitchen cup-

boards of pine and birch, allaccording to the customerswishes and desires.

Since I received these threejoinery machines from Logosol,time seems to pass too quicklywhen I work in the workshop.I dream of being able to spendmore time in my workshop,

because I have so many ideasthat I want to realize, Runesays. I was planning to buyone machine with all threefunctions, but now I am very

pleased that I bought three se-parate machines instead.

All three machines are in-credibly nicely designed androbustly constructed. They havestrong motors and high capa-city, Rune states, and shows usthe 1 m (3 ft) space between thesaw blade and the fence, whichmakes handling wide laminateseasy as pie. And its a pleasurehearing the machines running,they do not vibrate a lot and the

tables slide so easily that yourejoice. Now that I have this

rst-rate equipment I can pro-duce everything from kitchencupboards to chairs and tables,Rune says.

The river that runs past Runeshouse is regulated by a water

power station, and Mosvik FishFarm was set up to take care ofthe salmons in the river. Herespawn-ready salmon are caught,and then their roe is taken. Theroe is taken care of accordingto all of the established rules.When the salmon fry have

hatched they have a growthperiod of two years, before theyare placed in the river to thegreat delight of future salmonanglers.

Rune is really in his element,having a job and a hobby thatallow him to develop products

both in the joinery workshopand in the river. We wish himall the best with his future

production of wardrobes andsalmon. *

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.

LOGOSOL NORWAY

Having the responsibility for the breeding of 20 000

salmon fry, Rune Dahl is a man who likes when thingsare neat and tidy. And we see proof of that when we visithim in his joinery workshop which lies in an outbuildingon his property in Mosvik, Norway.Having your own joinery workshop to be in is perfect,now when the nights are getting darker, Rune says.

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the house within the next fewmonths.

The local building supplystore phones me when they needcustom work. I didnt want to selltoo much of my own wood untilnow as I needed most of it forthe house. The word spread andI started to get more and morerequests for using the PH260 pla-ner- moulder, ends Mr. Leroux.*


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Every year, Bengt has or-dered chains, bars and oneor two spare parts. No oneat Logosol had reected on

his age; not until last spring,when he himself brought upthe subject.

He was born, has grown upand is still living on the farmja outside the town Anebyin Sweden. His son Ingemarand his daughter-in-law Ka-

rin have taken over the farm,but Bengt and his sawmillstill live there.

Many elderly are interestedin owning a sawmill, butabstain due to their age.

First with the most

I think they argue wrong.When you are old, you havetime to do what you think isfun, Bengt says.

Two years ago, he traded inhis clearing saw for one ofthe latest model. The dea-ler wondered if that was sowise, considering Bengtsage and that he nowadaysuses a Zimmer frame. ButBengt bought it anyway.

The new one is held by asling, which enables me tomanoeuvre it with one handwhile I use my other hand to

lean on my stick, Bengtsays.

He is not foreign to novel-ties. In his pocket he has amobile phone, and he fol-lows with interest everythingnew that comes. No genera-tion has experienced so greatchanges as Beng and his agegroup. He was born in 1914,the same year as the FirstWorld War broke out. Those

days, there were no telepho-nes where he lived, and allwork at the farm and in theforest were done by hand orwith the use of horses.

Bengts father was just asinterested in new machinesas Bengt later was to be. jawas one of the rst farms in

the parish that was connec-ted to electricity, and in 1921a telephone was installed.But the greatest sensationwas when the rst car in the

district, a T-Ford, was acqui-red in 1926.

Not even the districtpublic prosecutor had a car.He only got one two yearslater, Bengt remembers.

Both sowing and sawing

Ten years earlier, Bengtsfather sowed the seeds thattoday have become a forestof stately trees. In 1931 itwas time for the rst thin-ning, and by this time Bengtwas a grown-up man whotook part in the job using hisaxe. Ten years later it wastime for thinning the forestagain due to the SecondWorld War.

During the war, fellingtrees for rewood was pro-

hibited. However, you wereallowed to thin the forestand then use what you gotas rewood, Bengt remem-

bers.

As time went on, Bengttook over the farm andcame very near to being therst in the district to have a

tractor. He signed a contractin 1942, but they did nothave one to deliver. Afterthe war the waiting list fortractors was so long that he

had to wait until 1947. In the1950s, he was one of therst who bought a chainsaw.

That was the best purcha-se I have ever done, Bengtsays.

With the help of thechainsaw he could managethe felling single-handed,instead of selling standingtimber. There were plenty oftall trees of the right qualityfor power line poles and

Is 93-year-old Bengt the oldest

active Logosol sawyerin the world?Bengt Kastensson was 81 years old when he bought a Logosol Sawmill in1995. Twelve years later, he continues sawing. I have never been able to sitstill, says Bengt, 93 years old and probably the oldest active Logosol sawyerin the world.

With some ingenuity, Bengt Kastensson manages to handle his sawmill, even though he nowadays walks with the help ofa Zimmer frame.

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lamp posts. The poles and postsgave a good income to the onewho felled his own trees.

I calculated that I earned 2.15(Swedish) kronor an hour fromthe farming. When I cut treesfor poles and posts, I earned 12kronor an hour, Bengt states.

An amazing experience

But he never cut up the treeshe felled. The sawing the farmrequired was done by a nearbywater sawmill. As a senior ci-tizen, he started to think abouthow you actually do when youcut up trees and how the treeslook like underneath the bark.Curiosity made him buy a Logo-sol Sawmill, one of the rst that

was equipped with the electricsaw E5000.

It was an amazing experiencecutting your rst board, Bengt

says.

Many boards later, the sawingis mainly leisure and fun. Assoon as logs are delivered home,he stands by the sawmill. Thesawmill is in original condition,and the only things replaced areconsumable items and the con-trol panel for the electric sawunit.

After the storms Gudrun andPer 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 wehad planned to save were felled,says Bengt, who is concernedabout the strange weather. Foras long as I can remember, therain and wind have never been asviolent as nowadays.

Some of the logs he cut comefrom the forest his father planted91 years ago. Not everyone is

privileged to follow pines andspruces 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.

My father was the rst in the district who bought a car and installed a telephone, says Bengt Kastensson, who was

the rst in the district to buy a Logosol Sawmill.

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The shop is a 40 by 60sheet metal building hou-sing a variety of productionequipment, including tablesaws, radial arm saws, a

band resaw and, of coursetheir PH260 moulder/planer.The Arnett brothers have

put a lot of thought into theow of materials when they

arranged their machines.Although the shop is small,

it is not cluttered, and ma-terial ows easily from one

machine to the next one. Allguards and shields in place,and the Arnetts have addedto them to make it almostimpossible to get a nger

near the blade. When westart our next productionrun, we plan to have some ofour kids working with us.explained Ron. It gives

them a little spending mo-ney, and it keeps them out oftrouble. While my handsthawed out over the woodstove, Ron talked about hisexperiences with the PH260.

Theres money to be madewith this machine, he says.We bought it about thistime last year [Feb 2007].My brother John found it onthe internet, and we got a

job renishing bleachers in

a gymnasium. What he bidon the school job was doublethe price of the Logosol, sowe knew we could buy itand pay for it and put theother half in our pocket. Wetook the old boards off, ranthem through the Logosolto clean them up, applied a

new polyurethane nish, andput them right back in place.John and I had our kids,

plus three nieces and nep-hews up there helping. We

brought the Logosol to theschool and set it up right inthe gymnasium with a rotarythree-phase converter anddust collector. After that,they started to look for otherways to use the machine.

Things had changed quite

a bit for the Arnett brotherssince we met at the OpenHouse. They visited seve-ral local lumber yards, oneof which produced its ownmoulding on a high produc-tion six-head machine.

The owner showed Ron asample of his moulding andasked what he thought of

it. It had ripples in it andsome tear-out. I think hemay have pushed it throughthe machine too fast,, saidRon. John told him that inour shop, trim that lookedlike that went into the woodstove. John is a little toodirect, sometimes! Hisdirect approach, followed upwith some samples of trimfrom the Logosol convincedthe owner of the lumber yard

John Arnett (right) puts a board through the PH260 to test the knife settings. His brother Ron (center) and nephew Zach watch the outfeed.

Theres money to be made with this machineI met brothers John and Ron Arnett at the Logosol open house in Jackson,Mississippi last summer. They had just nished a job resurfacing the

bleachers in a local high school gymnasium and were looking for ideas onother ways to use the PH260 in their business. So how were they doing?I drove up to their business near the tiny northwest Missouri town ofPhiladelphia to nd out. Coming in from the blowing snow, the rst order

of business was to inspect their old pot-bellied wood stove.

By David Boyt

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to shut down his production

moulder and buy his trimfrom the Arnett brothers.This looks like a good,long-term job for us, saysRon.

Ron and John make trimrings that they can leavewith potential customers.This is a set of 8 inch sam-

ple trim sections on a shortlength of chain. Ron writesthe knife numbers on the

back of each piece for refe-rence. When a customer

wants a certain piece of trim,he can read off the numbers,and I know exactly howto set up the machine, hesaid. Matching trim is alsoa strong selling point. We

just trace around the trim ona piece of trim and fax thatto Logosols knife maker,and he can grind a set of bla-des for that prole. More

than a dozen pattern kniveshang on the wall behind the

machine. They [the knives]

are expensive, says Ron,but weve got more on or-der. To sharpen the blades,they send them out to a localsharpening shop.

According to John, it takesabout 30 minutes to changethe knives. The focus is on

producing a high-qualityproduct.

We generally run thisat the slowest feed rate-- Ithink its about 11 linear

feet per minute-- to give thesmoothest cut. We dontpush it, said Ron. I thinkthe lumber company pro-

bably lost quality becausethey were pushing the trimthrough their machine tofast. They were set up like afactory, he concluded.

The positive response tothe quality of their productshas resulted in a few chan-ges around the shop. A new

band resaw sits next to the

Logosol. When we startedit up, the lights in the shop

just dimmed. recalls Ron.Weve got an electriciancoming in tomorrow to putin some heavier wiring forus. They are also conside-ring installing a chip bailer.Hopefully when we do that,well be able to sell the sha-vings for bedding. Theresmoney to be made here, butyou have to look at every

possible aspect of it, inclu-

ding the waste, says Ron.By this time next year,wed like to be in a buildingtwice this size. One thingis certainthe PH260 will

be in it! According to Ron,We hope that the Logosollasts a long time, but at thesame time, we hope to keepit busy enough that we wearit out!

Theres nothing betterthan words of wisdom from

someone who has been suc-cessful. Ron says that the

best approach is always tobe honest with your custo-mer and produce a good

quality product. The big-gest thing is dont feed thecustomer a bunch of bull.Just be yourself and showem what youve got. *

John Arnett and his brother Ron inspect a test piece from the PH260. Rons son Zach is

learning about the business.

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 inspects a piece of trim against the pattern.

The brothers have found that keeping a close eye on quality

has had a tremendous effect on their business.

Ron Arnett shows the nal trim test piece. They are now

ready to start production.


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Nowadays, Logosol iscooperating with the importcompany Absolut in St. Pe-tersburg. The business goesunder the name of LogosolRus, and it has two employ-ees: Vladimir Konenkov and

Irina Laguta. Their marketextends as far as the Pacic

Ocean.

The trouble is that werarely have the possibility tovisit our retailers and custo-mers. It is simply too faraway, Vladimir says.

The visit of his dreams isto the retailer in Jatutsk inthe north-eastern Siberia,the coldest inhabited placeon Earth. In this region they

have measured temperaturesdown to 70C (- 94F).Why do 210 000 people livein such a cold city?

There are large diamonddeposits there, Vladimirstates.

But Siberia also has sum-mers, and there are trees.The prices of sawn lumberhave shot up, and this makessawing your own lumbermore interesting. To a gro-wing number of people aLogosol Sawmill has beco-me the solution. The diffe-rence is that here, the custo-mers comes on a dog sledgeto the retailer to collect theirsawmills. Translated, the

name of the Siberian store isSwedish Quality.

Private woodlands

There are three importantreasons for the increaseand change of quality of

Logosols sales in Russia.Russia is the most woodedcountry in the world, but thegovernment owns almost allwoodland. Nearly 70 yearsago, a farm lease act wasintroduced, which makes it

possible to rent a forest for70 years with the obligationto look after, thin and replantit. Russia is beginning tohave something similar to

private woodlands.

The second explanation

is found in the fact that theold collective farms, thekolkhozes, have ceased towork, and today they arelike ordinary villages. Eachkolkhoz formerly had asawmill. Now, they are worn

out and no one is responsiblefor them. Today they are

being replaced by LogosolSawmills.

A changing climate

The third reason emptiedLogosols stock during thespring in 2007, which resul-ted in customers waiting fortheir sawmills all over theworld. The change of clima-te has dramatically changedthe forestry conditions in

some parts of Russia, e.g. inthe Ural Mountains and inArchangelsk.

The ground is marshy inthese parts. Due to this, theytraditionally fell trees inautumn and then collect thetimber in winter when theground is frozen.

During the winter in2006/2007 the ground frostnever came. Felled timberwas left lying in the forestsand ran the risk of gettingdamaged.

Logosol Sawmills becamethe solution to this, sincethey are easy to bring out inthe forest; and sawn lumberis easier to transport. *

Vladimir Konenkov and Irina Laguta work for

Logosol in Russia, and are responsible for a retailer

network that extends as far as the Pacic Ocean.

The sales to Russia have steadily increased, and today Russia cancompete with the US when it comes to being the largest exportmarket. At the same pace, the exploitation of people and machineshas decreased, and today Russia is a country which in many ways

resembles Sweden. A growing number of people buy themselves aLogosol Sawmill for fun.

The Logosol Sawmillhas

become a part of Russian culture

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