Employee retention is important to any business: the expense of hiring and training new employees can be very costly. Another cost lies in the productivity lost while seeking to replace the employee who’s no longer there. In blue collar jobs, which are generally labor-focused, employee retention is often lower than in office and executive positions. […]
Sometimes being prepared is all you can do – and that is definitely the truth when it comes to saw blade maintenance. The things will break. However, the actions you take and do not take towards preserving them have a major role in when they will break. Today, we’d like to talk about some things […]
It may seem easy to choose the right saw blade the first time – it might even seem easy to write off saw acquisition as a minor issue. But your choice of saw could make or break a mill’s ability to process lumber at a reasonable rate. If you’d like to cut blade costs or […]
There are few places more dangerous than a saw mill. They have large cutting blades in motion throughout the day, they have large tree trunks being split constantly, and they have lots of vulnerable workers who can easily be cut, crushed, or squashed if they aren’t careful.
Supervisors and foremen of saw mills almost certainly must be aware of the difficulty involved with keeping the saws on their cutting machines working correctly and efficiently. Saw blades are an absolute pain to keep in tip-top working order — cutting a straight and smooth line across your lumber is almost impossible if the machines […]