Hi, I’m Mike Spadaro from Hud-Son Forest Equipment located in Barneveld, New York.
We started in 1946, moved to Barneveld in 1966, and we’ve developed into a worldwide manufacturer/distributor of forestry products
for landowners, homeowners, farmers, and hobbyists.
We’ve moved into a distribution network in North America United States and Canada as well as a few other locations around the world.
We currently have about 50 different distributors of our of our products.
About 15 years ago I think we brought in the Uniforest product line to our already established Hud-Son Forest Equipment forestry line.
We were intrigued by the offering of a wireless system, so we wanted to check that out.
We got the products and soon realized that they were superior quality.
They had some more product offerings that were quite interesting as well.
Like their grapples, skidding winches, as well as their their timber grabs.
They actually worked with us developing the timber grab for your bobcat setup so it’s a dual purpose timber grab that will work on your skid steers as well as your three-point hitch
Hi, I’m Mike Spadaro from Hud-Son Forest Equipment located in Barneveld, New York.
We started in 1946, moved to Barneveld in 1966, and we’ve developed into a worldwide manufacturer/distributor of forestry products
for landowners, homeowners, farmers, and hobbyists.
We’ve moved into a distribution network in North America United States and Canada as well as a few other locations around the world.
We currently have about 50 different distributors of our of our products.
About 15 years ago I think we brought in the Uniforest product line to our already established Hud-Son Forest Equipment forestry line.
We were intrigued by the offering of a wireless system, so we wanted to check that out.
We got the products and soon realized that they were superior quality.
They had some more product offerings that were quite interesting as well.
Like their grapples, skidding winches, as well as their their timber grabs.
They actually worked with us developing the timber grab for your bobcat setup so it’s a dual purpose timber grab that will work on your skid steers as well as your three-point hitch
on your tractor.
Mike Spadaro
General Manager
Hud-Son Forest Equipment
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We are in Barneveld, New York at the Hud-Son Forest Equipment forestry equipment facility,
where they build their Sawmills and sell saws. All kinds of forestry equipment!
We are going on a tour and they’re going to show us the facility and what goes on inside, so come on along with us!
Let’s see what’s going on in Hud-Son Forest Equipment.
All right so before we go into Hud-Son Forest Equipment headquarters and start the tour, we thought we’d give you
an aerial shot of the complete facility.
Everything you see on the screen is Hud-Son Forest Equipment.
As we go around the facility, the building that you have in center screen, that is their fabrication shop where they fabricate the sawmills
in America in Barneveld, NY.
They also assemble other tools that they sell other equipment that they sell here at this facility as you can see it’s quite a large building.
As we turn left the building that’s coming into your screen now is a snowmobile shop where they sell snowmobile parts and pieces.
Now the building you’re looking at is their showroom.
Everything that goes through Hud-Son out the door for sale goes through that building.
Chainsaws, sawmills, winches, all kinds of stuff.
All right, so we’re not real sure where we’re supposed to go in at, so we’re going to go right into the showroom.
They got a Hud-Son Forest Equipment Farm Boss trailer unit set right up on the outside.
That’s the size I wish I had bought! 36 yeah.
I mean I like the one I got but that Farm Boss is built tough!
Hey, this is Mike general manager of Hud-Son Forest Equipment.
How we doing? Good.
Today we here for the factory tour.
You guys excited to see that?
Yeah I want I want to see these things in the making.
Well this is our showroom.
I mean it’s not part of the manufacturing tour but this is the end products that come out of manufacturing.
I see you have plenty of sawmills in stock.
Yes, they’re coming off of a two years of a large back order.
We’re finally getting caught up on some orders. We do have stock.
A lot of our dealers have stock.
Depending on the unit it’s either we got it ready to ship out within a week.
Or you might still be back ordering if I wanted to order let’s say I wanted to order a hydraulic sawmill.
Our Hud-Son Forest Equipment Freedom Line sawmills and Homesteader sawmills are ready to ship.
Once you get into some of the commercial Hydraulics sawmills we’re still about four months out.
That’s not too bad at this time, not too bad.
See other sawmill manufacturers are a year and a half out on hydraulic sawmills.
Yeah so this is like the Oscar line here. What we got to set up in the showroom you got your Oscar line.
You know some of the key points on the Oscar line is you know availability, bigger power motor, electric start, and the true original Oscar four post frame.
The original frame that we started out. Everything you see here is has electric start, bigger engines, and trailer options.
You got some adjustability for the user where you can change your hand cranks and your sight gauges.
You can put on power feeds on most of these sawmills.
We even got the new blade setworks coming out that all these sawmills.
We notice like on a lot of your Oscar lines you’re going with the different lift winch.
Yes the cable lift systems how’s that working out.
It’s probably 10 15 years years ago we switched over to a cable winch system.
It’s a smoother transaction. Less wear and tear on the cable from the pulley.
Well the one thing that sold me on your sawmills was number one, I got the Hud-Son Forest Equipment HFE30
Homesteader portable sawmill was the ability to be able to cut wider than 30 inch diameter logs.
I can cut a cant 33 inches wide, so if I’m making countertops which is a very popular thing cutting slab countertops.
That was the mill for me where everybody else was offering a 24 inch diameter cut.
Sure everybody talks about diameter but it’s the thickness of that get most peoples attention.
There so there’s a diameter you can take a round log and cut the top off of it but how far can you cut between the guides is a key thing.
Your sawmills are are simplistic, so if something happens they’re they’re easy to repair.
I don’t know it’s just very simple design and very strong built like tanks.
We use structural steel for all of our production for the most part.
I do have a question for you Mike. I noticed on your site that you had the new magnetic log ruler out.
How they hold up to the vibration of the of the post when it vibrates?
Do they move or are they pretty strong?
It’s just an easy way to get your sticker on or get adjustment.
I mean if you want to adjust or do some specifics right you can actually move your magnetic ruler to set so it gives you some more options.
We’re talking about this guys see a little bit when the sawmills running.
You’re going to have a vibration a little bit you know the engines and everything else it does happen that you get some vibration on equipment.
Usually when you throttle all the way up she smoothed out all right.
So this is the Hud-Son Forest Equipment Oscar line.
You have the Hud-Son Forest Equiopment Freedom line in the middle and it’s still as sturdy.
It’s still a four post but it’s a modified four post.
You got the curved frame here and then the vertical lift tube’s coming off so it’s not completely caged in like the Oscar line.
Now we noticed on the Hud-Son Forest Equipment Warrior portable sawmill that you’ve changed the drive system.
Yes, its the Hud-Son Forest Equipment Warrior XL. It has the same drive system as our Homesteader line.
We went with the a little more push on this sawmill so we gave it a 19in bandwheel on this and the different drive system.
I’ve noticed the drive system is separate from the blade which is nice and it comes with a it comes with a 23HP motor.
The freedom sawmill line you put together yourself. It comes in a crate and you have to assemble yourself.
You know I purchased the Hud-Son Forest Equipment Patriot sawmill. I had to do the assembly on that one or you can get the factory or dealer assemble it for you too.
Hud-Son Forest Equipment Freedom line portable sawmills, our most affordable do-it-yourself sawmills.
Save money and assemble the bandsaw yourself, or for a little more you can purchase one pre-assembled. Built in the USA for the handyman or woodland homesteader.
Featuring the Hud-Son Forest Equipment Hunter, Sawyer, Patriot, and Warrior portable sawmills!
Hud-Son Forest Equipment dealer, Dave Yoder, attends the 40th annual Kentucky Wood Expo September 15th and 16th in Lexington, KY.
The Kentucky Wood Expo featured over 75 inside and outside exhibits and demonstrations for everyone to enjoy. Sawmill, pallet, logging, secondary, and all types of wood processing machinery were on display along with a wide range of support services. The show offers something for everyone.
Hud-Son Forest Equipment dealer, Dave Yoder, is located in Lawrenceberg, KY.
Stop in or see Dave for all your forestry equipment needs.
He can be reached at:
Dave’s Sawmill Sales
2007 Fortune Drive
Lawrenceberg, KY 40342
1-859-265-0793
sales@andersonmetal.net
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