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.
Hello everybody and welcome back to our Channel Two Brothers Outdoors on a rainy afternoon.
We’ve had so much rain it is getting ridiculous. We are going to pull out our logs today.
We cut down a bunch of Hemlock trees last week. We caught a bunch of
Hemlock down in the swamp. We have to cross a little piece of that swamp to get to them and it could be a bad time today.
We’re going to solve this order of two by sixes today. We got a couple of nice big hemlocks laying here.
Real quick, we want to talk about the incident on the last video where we had a tree behind us fall on us with the tree going down in front of us.
Unexpected, unforeseen, and just absolutely unreal. Fortunately for us the tree was only like a six seven-inch tree.
You know at the base but if it had been any bigger it would have got us. We would have been dead if we hadn’t been wearing the helmets.
We would have been we got pile drived pretty good. Nevertheless we got pile drived in the ground pretty good and to tell you the truth
I’ve been working in the woods forever. Unless it’s required by the by the land we’re working on we don’t wear helmets. Never thought about it.
Never worried about it. Never had anything ever actually hit me in the head.
Tim started wearing a helmet earlier this summer right and he wanted to make fun of me. I made fun of him wanting to and called him “Ranger Tim”.
My wife was watching the videos and she’s like “How come Tim’s wearing a helmet you’re not”?
Well I don’t know. Maybe it’s a good idea for you to wear a helmet you’re getting older. You can’t run as fast. You’re not paying attention to stuff around you like you used to.
You know all the things that come with being older. Yes thanks but anyway make a long story short Wilson Forest Products ,Mike Wilson, he wears a cool forestry helmet made out of
aluminum, so I looked in to get one of those if I have to wear a helmet. Might as well be cool and I got one. Tim liked it so much he got one.
Yeah and then Mike Wilson made fun of us for having brand new shiny helmets and now they both got dents in them, but they did save us from a brain bleed or possibly other problems.
My neck hurts today and it’s two days later. My neck still hurts from being hit in the head. Tim’s sore from being hit in the head and I got scratched on top.
It knocked his helmet off. One of the branches gouged his head. So when you’re in the woods I guess it’s not a bad idea to wear the safety equipment.
At least wear your safety equipment so that if something does happen.
All right guys that’s enough on the safety stuff. We’re going to saw this log into two by sixes and we got another one just like it behind the shed here.
We’re going to let Tim be the sawyer in charge tonight. It’s going to be his decisions. 100% him so if he screws up I’m going to be here to tell him you screwed up.
All right guys. Let’s get started. Right away. All right guy’s Tim brought this end up just a little bit to level the pitch out this log.
You step out here in the rain this log and it does have a little bit of a hump to it so it’s not quite as straight as we would hoped.
Not the perfect log but all we need to do is get at least a 12 inch cant out of it and that’ll double the amount of six by sixes that we get out.
So, I’m going to start his first cut right about the bark on the tail man. Today I’m going to get wet because it is rained again.
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Boy that is one nice hemlock log right there. That’s beautiful. I want you to guys to guess right now before we get any further in this log how many two by sixes do you think we can get out of this log? There’s 17 inches on the small end. Maybe closer to 18 inches. Tell us in the comments below how many two sixes you’ll think we get out of this log?
Do it now because it’s cheating if you’re ready for later guys. So, we’re still enrolling this 180 degrees. We didn’t think we could get 12 inches out of the swoop right here.
All right guys you see the swoop in the log right here. Our intention was to cut a flat surface here on this side and it kind of cross over on this side end up with a 12 inch wide cant.
But the problem is this swoop. We didn’t think it would bring the log down enough to give us our the width that we needed so instead we start the log up and we’re cutting the 12 inches this way actually 12 and 8.
We’ll show you why in just a minute here. Okay, so now we have a 12 and 8 inch wide can right here. Now he’s going to cut this six quarter at a time because the customer wants an
inch and a half not two inch thick. He’s going to cut six quarter all the way down to the bottom. Each one of those to come off clear is going to be two two by sixes.
Thank you.
Okay guys I had to take one off right here because it was getting too high to clear his throat. So we got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, two by six or seven two by twelves.
So that’ll make fourteen two by sixes and then we got four flitches over here under that is also going to make four more.
Are we putting that one on here? Yes, so that’ll be 18 two by sixes all together or one and a half by sixes but if you guessed eighteen you are the one that got it right!!!
What a winner, winner, chicken dinner. You got to come here to get it through.
Okay guys we’re going to stand these up and cut them down into sixes.
Before you start the mill, I don’t know if you guys noticed it or not did you notice anything different?
I noticed it’s not vibrating, it’s not shaking, and that’s it’s not swaying it’s not pulling. Okay, so here’s what I noticed his tracks are staying clean and his reels are staying clean with the new track sweeps. Easy you can see they’ve got sawdust all over them but it’s not getting on the wheels now. We put a gusset on this mill two movies ago. Uh no actually that movie will be out
tomorrow. But anyway, this gusset when we went to the Hud-Son Forest Equipment Woodsmen’s Field Days show we see that they’re putting those gussets on the new mills.
The reason they’re putting gussets on it is when the mill is very high like it was on this log here the mill’s up the top it throws the mill. Kind of like off balance makes it top heavy so the mill starts shaking, starts rocking back and forth like this. My mill did it. I put four posts on it and Iwas able to stop it. Tim’s Mill we put four posts on it but not so much.
This gusset that we put on, what a difference that has made. A big difference that mill didn’t shake or vibrate or move one bit. Yeah because usually it vibrates on the tubes it
makes an awful racket it wasn’t even vibrating. So, we’re very happy with those upgrades. We’re going to cut this at six inches and then we’re going to do just a little
bit wider than 12 inches. So, we’re going to cut it at six get those out of the way then re-cut the next stack at six again and get the Wayne off.
All right, go ahead Sawyer let’s cut them up. Two by sixes out of that log 18 two by sixes would have been 19 but we had one that split. So that’s a gimme you can use pieces and
parts off of it maybe even use the whole thing but we’ll give it to the customer. See it there split off. That’s an old split that’s the way it was inside the tree.
All right guys I’m going to get the next log on the mill ready to go. We saved this cap from a cup the other day. I said we might be able to get a two by six out of it.
We’re going to try right now. Yeah we’re going to get one out of this cap. Okay guys the next log is on the mill and we got just a little tiny issue right here.
The log split on the end. That’s going to have to be part of the top cap. We will probably roll it this way putting that crack horizontal down and cut this first.
Then try to cut the crack out. All right guys that’ll be on the next. No video is complete without Miss Allie!!!
Hey you’ll walk away from me when I’m talking about you. You poop.
Okay so with the present upgrades that we put on your mill what do you think of it? Oh man. I tell you it’s just like it’s solid as you’re hot right through the
insect and rattled into nothing. Just cut it cut perfect. I could tell at the end the braids start to get a little a little bell but other than that she’s got it right.
I’ll tell you what happened. Absolutely, that’s all I had to say. All right guy’s thanks for watching. If you’re not subscribed hit that subscription button.
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