Big thanks to Jason Bonnema for sharing this great picture of a chicken coop he milled out on the Hud-Son Forest Equipment Oscar 428 portable sawmill.
Jason purchased his sawmill from Hud-Son Forest Equipment dealer, Bill Mankey, in Amity, PA.
Did you know we have 5 dealers in PA alone?
Hud-Son Forest Equipment still runs on a dealer network. Most of our customers still like to look at our sawmills and even do a demo before they purchase. Having a dealer to go to is great for before and after the sale. A place to go for parts and service on your equipment. Plus, hands on training on your Hud-Son Forest Equipment before you take it home!
Check out of local dealer list below.
Jay Hoover milling some beautiful red cedar logs with his Hud-Son Forest Equipment Warrior portable sawmill. Look at those hues of red!
We are so grateful for ALL our Hud-Son Forest Equipment customers and appreciate you sharing with us what you are up to with your equipment.
THE HUD-SON WARRIOR XL
DEDICATED IN HONOR OF OUR MILITARY VETERANS
The new heavy-duty Hud-Son Warrior XL sawmill has raised the bar for capacity and horsepower in a portable sawmill. This sawmill can out-perform the competition in its price and class. Designed to keep you ahead of wood milling challenges no matter the project.
Selling thousands of Hunter / Sawyer mills our customers wanted a sawmill that could cut larger logs. We took on the challenge to create the new Hud-Son Warrior sawmill.
We built it tough! 2 Post with Lift Tubes for strength and accuracy when cutting 36” diameter logs.
We know you are a true craftsman and assembling this masterpiece is just the challenge you don’t shy away from.
• Order assembled or unassembled to help meet your needs and budget
• No welding and only a handful of tools required
• Built here in the USA at our home town factory in Barneveld, NY by hometown workers from right here in the heart of Central NY
• Comes with a Three Year Warranty
• Perfect for the Do-It-Yourselfer, Small woodshops & hunting camps. Assembly Instructions.
• 20+HP gas Motor
Hud-Son Forest Equipment Sawyer portable sawmill American mill
Hud-Son Forest Equipment has come up with a solution to save you money.
We’re keeping jobs in the United States with our new and affordable sawmill built right here in upstate New York.
The Sawyer portable sawmill by Hud-Son Forest Equipment is an all American mill that is perfect for the do it yourselfer, handyman, or mechanically inclined person.
Competitively priced, this is our most unique sawmill yet.
It can be ordered assembled or unassembled to meet your needs and budget.
With our how to instructional DVD, you can easily assemble this mill at home with simple hand tools. No welding necessary.
The Sawyers bolt together frame is developed with extra bracing making the mill sturdy and durable.
The Sawyer can mill up to a 21 inch diameter log. Log accurately with the proven Hud-Son Forest Equipment shoe guide system.
The Sawyer will glide with ease over the standard aluminum track.
Hud-Son Forest Equipment has developed the aluminum rails which require a solid surface(the timber shown here is not included with your purchase).
The cross rails and back stops makes log handling easy with the simple use of a cant hook or peavy.
Blade engagement is smooth with a centrifugal clutch. Simply throttle up the engine and the Sawyer comes to life!
2.5 gallon lubrication tank is included and drip system helps keep the blade clean and cool.
The Hud-Son Forest Equipment Sawyer portable sawmill has a six year warranty on the main bearings and shaft.
We can offer this because of the Hud-Son Forest Equipment bearing support system that equalizes the pressure evenly across the shaft and bearings.
The Sawyer also has the rock solid guide system that guides the blade from top to bottom.
The Sawyer is available in two color schemes. Red, white, and blue. The other is camouflage. Manufactured by hardworking Americans. It comes with a three year warranty.
Contact Hud-Son Forest Equipment at 800-765-7297 today!
Removing dead white birch trees due to pesky porcupines with my Hud-Son Forest Equipment Uniforest 35M forestry logging skidding winch.
The electricity to the camper has been repaired and now using the Hud-Son Forest Equipment Uniforest 35M logging winch to remove the trees that were damaged over the winter by miss porcupine. I’ve caught and relocated miss porcupine in an earlier video. Now to get the camping site ready for another season. We’ll be working on the old house soon now that the porcupine is gone. Hopefully she is gone for good.
Alright. So here’s the campsite. Eventually we will have the camper sitting back up here right next to the water and all the electric connections.
Miss porcupine has been very busy. I know it’s a creature that has to survive every year but I wish they’d move it along somewhere else. Not my camping site. The love birch trees and these white birch trees is a nice snack for them.
Usually they climb them and start eating from the top while sitting on the branches and what have you. This particular birch here she’s gone all around the base of it. I think you can see it and taking the back off so that trees not gonna last and it’s near the camp.
So what I got to do is try to get some of these trees down that are near the camp that might not be long for this world.
I’d rather do it now when camp is not here. So that’s what I’ll be working on.
Alright so I want those birches to fall to our left camera and if you could see in the lower left corner firepit.
I want the birches to fall. That tree that’s just behind the firepit or just kind of behind it to the right. I want those birches to land right in between that and that’s Bert in the four wheeler.
I’ve got double pulley’s so I should have about fourteen thousand pounds force and I’m really not pulling it right now.
I’ve just got a little, just a very little bit of strain on it. Just to help it go in the direction I want it to.
Originally, those were leaning pretty much right towards the camera so it went down exactly where I wanted it to. Just beyond where the blue type is. That’s the fun fireplace.
There’s a tree behind the room just a little bit to the right of the fireplace. I wanted it on the other side of that and this side of that birch. It landed exactly where I wanted it to.
Okay. So I’ve got my helpful wife with me today. Linda’s over on the tractor with the Hud-Son Forest Equipment Uniforest 35M forestry skidding winch and I’m still working around our electric lines here. Making sure that these trees I’m cutting go away from the electrical lines.
This little birch, you can see the electric pole is right here and I want to keep it going away from the electric pole.
So this little one I’ve got to go to the right and the big one has to go to the left.
So let’s see how this works out!!!
Alright. You folks probably can’t see it. Let me zoom in. There’s one lone branch right there sticking out the right hand side of that white birch.
I want to try to get a throw line around it and then I’m going to get my strap up high. Hopefully. We’ll see.
Alright. So I’ve got the Hud-Son Forest Equipment Uniforest 35M logging skidding winch hooked up to this big white birch. I’m going to try to pan around a little bit so you can see now I got it hooked.
I mentioned in previous videos how handy skidding winches like the Hud-Son Forest Equipment Uniforest 35M forestry winches are.
I’ve got two pulleys at least double if not triple the pulling force and again that’s so that we can pull down this big tree.
I’m gonna make my slicing notch and then I’m going to put a little strain on it so that the felling notch will make it go in the direction I want it to go.
Alright. So were getting ready. So apparently my camera died. I’m not sure if I got the video or not but the tree went right in the direction I wanted it to go!!
Tree laid right across the driveway. I mean it really had no choice pulling it from one direction.
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Big thank you to Hud-Son Forest Equipment Uniforest 35M skidding winch customer Charlie Bauer for sharing this picture. We love seeing our equipment on the job.
The Uniforest 35 M skidding winch is ideally suited for your compact tractor. This unit is rated for 16-45 horsepower and has 7700 lbs of pull. The main cable is 230 feet long and is 3/8” in diameter. It comes with 3 Cable Sliders and a Swivel End Fitter to attach multiple logs. The unit weighs in at 540 lbs and is a category I & II hitch. The 35M comes standard with upper and lower pulley, chainsaw scabbard, trailer hitch, and PV holder.
Make quick, safe work of your firewood or sawmill logs harvesting. The 230 feet of cable allows you to keep your tractor on solid ground and bring the logs to you. This also makes your operation low impact on the environment.
Dropping a pine with the Hud-Son Forest Equipment Uniforest 35M skidding winch on a John Deere 3025M tractor.
Alright. We are out in the woods today. This will be the first video of 2023 and hopefully we don’t have any issues.
So what we got is a pine tree and I’m running out of anchors, so I need a lot of chain. So I got the cable, couple chains all attached together but I was running out of anchor points. So I’m using the tractor which makes me a little nervous but this pine here is what I want to take down.
So, before I lose my old anchor tree here I want to get that down.
So, we got the chain wrapped around the tree with the snatch block, the cable that I’m using the cable off the tractor because I think there is about 230 feet of it, so it gives me lot’s of distance. I got the small comealong winch here. This is what I’ll use for actual tensioning. There is pretty good tensioning on it already. I just pulled the slack up on the tractor.
This here is going to be the anchor and the other point is going to be right here.
So I got the tractor kinda behind this oak tree here just in case something goes that we don’t pull the tractor over.
Hopefully this will be enough to keep everything from going over. If for some reason something goes wrong on us.
So this is where were set up. I got the second camera here and I figured that tree is about 90 feet. We’ll find out. 100 feet is right out here. That’s why that sticks right there. I measured it out. Should be 110 feet. I’m not quite sure that trees that long.
I guess we’re going to find out. So lets hop to it.
**noise chainsaw starting and running. Blocking tree and cutting it down. Using comealong to tighten cable. Tree falling, lands perfectly in log landing. **
Alright! So we made a mess! Got it down!
I knew it was pretty close on the backside when I cut it down. It seemed like when I was cutting it was opening up and the cable seemed like it got some slack in it. I kinda figured it was coming this way so a couple of cracks on the old comealong winch there. It lays pretty nice there.
We should measure it to see what the total length is there. Were pretty close. Got down to the nitty gridy here. So that’a a nice looking pine. All the way to the end here. Nothing in there, doesn’t look bad at all.
So I’ll get the chains off. I’m going to cut these up to 12 foot lengths again. It looks like I’ll get some decent lumber in here again.
Yeah, we missed the camera so were good that way.
**noise chainsaw running. John Deere 3025E tractor running with a Hud-Son Forest Equipment Uniforest skidding winch PTO tractor attachment.**
Tractor moving around 12 foot blocked logs around to stack them by the shed.
Alright, so were wrapping it up here. At least for today. Everybody in the house has to go back to work tomorrow so I’m thinking I’ll come out here again. I’ll clean up what’s left here. It’s not too much. Probably half a day here. Looks like there’s a collteral oak branch that came down but overall it went okay. It was a little frustrating when we didn’t have enough cable to get that pine down and now I’m wondering if I should take the other one down too before I drop this oak.
I don’t know. The tractor is definat handy. 230 feet 3/8 cable is really nice to have. That makes a huge difference when your trying to move things.
I don’t know. I just feel like this pine is in the way too. If I could just pop this one out. Get this one down right away than were good. I hope!!
This oak here. I don’t think I’m going to do anything with. We’ll leave that one.
Maybe this one yet. This main one here still has to go. That one for sure we’ve got to get out of there but until I know I’m done I kinda want to leave that as an anchor. It’s good for pulling on.
So other than that really nice day out here today. It’s got to be close to 40 degrees out so we’re talking about rain and really heavy snow.
So were getting packed up and were going to head out. It was suppose to be cloudy all day today. The sun was out the whole time. So I never even put a coat on. Really nice, so.
Boss dog Moose got Hud-Son Forest Equipment HFE 30 owner, Danny Be, outside milling again.
Nothing better than two best friends, spending time together, and doing what they love!
Any other boss dogs out there?
HFE -30 Homsteader Portable Sawmill is the perfect addition to any farm, ranch or woodlot. This workhorse will make your standing or downed timber in to fencing, flooring, out buildings, furniture, boat docks and more, the possibilities are endless! Produce all the lumber for your project for a fraction of what it would cost you at a box store. Imagine how handy it would be if when you needed a few boards or several, you could just saw it up right on the spot. Handling log diameters up to 30” you do not have to back down from many of the larger trees. The HFE-30 a great combination of affordability and size.
I wanted to pull some smaller logs out just to give an overview of the skidding winch. I never really found a good video on YouTube that demonstrated this.
Hey folks! I’m out here skidding logs out with the Hud-Son Forest Equipment Uniforest 45M forestry winch.
This is my first time really pulling logs. If you look back here you’ve got two cables.
One is the release which releases your winch and the other cable is the power that pulls the winch.
Do what you want to do first of all is pull this red wing and that releases your winch.
You’ll take your chains here and wrap them around the logs.
Then take your winch out, hook it up, and you’re good to go!
So that’s what we are going to do right now and I’ll put you guys on my chest here. Hopefully, you don’t wobble around too much.
This was one long but I cut it up so I can pull it out of here fairly easily. I don’t have any trouble.
We’re gonna put this in here. It just goes, you can see that. Right through there’s a little slide. Take here into your winch. Hopefully you guys can see this and it just slides right through.
Get your other chain over here. I’m going to put it around the other log. Let’s do it!!!
Make sure it sinks down that log. You bring your cable over and you guys can see here.
Hud-Son Forest Equipment Uniforest 45M skidding winch gives you a little place to hold your chainsaw. Isn’t that special!
Start our tractor up. We’re going to use the back wheel switch for the PTO. There it goes.
Now we can take these off. We bring out cable all the way up. Now we can take these and slide them down through here. Okay, like that.
Okay, we’re gonna raise up and let’s lift these log ends up. We can drag them out of here. Let’s do that. You guys up here as you can see a little bit.
So put your chains back in and you’re done. Easy as that and simple as that.
So a log like these three would probably take me, I don’t know, several hours to pull out of the woods.
You know, you can only cut maybe a third of that. Maybe half and fit in the back of my trailer.
So, you got one, two, three, four, five, or six, trips out of the woods.
I still haven’t taken them back to the house yet. They’re up here where I can get to them. I can cut them up into smaller pieces. You know like six or seven foot pieces using a ruffle bucket and carry them back to the house which is probably what I’ll do tomorrow.
So that’s just a real quick overview of the Hud-Son Forest Equipment Uniforest 45M forestry winch.
It’s working pretty well for me. I enjoy it so looking forward to pulling some bigger logs out as I get used to it. Not used to it yet. It’s again my first day using it. I just wanted to go over the basics again. That black cord is your power, the red cord it releases the winch and pull it out easily.
You can take this and move it up here. I’ll hit down here because it gives you more leverage to pull heavier logs.
The new heavy-duty Hud-Son Warrior XL sawmill has raised the bar for capacity and horsepower in a portable sawmill. This sawmill can out-perform the competition in its price and class. Designed to keep you ahead of wood milling challenges no matter the project.
Selling thousands of Hunter / Sawyer mills our customers wanted a sawmill that could cut larger logs. We took on the challenge to create the new Hud-Son Warrior sawmill.
We built it tough! 2 Post with Lift Tubes for strength and accuracy when cutting 36” diameter logs.
We know you are a true craftsman and assembling this masterpiece is just the challenge you don’t shy away from.
• Order assembled or unassembled to help meet your needs and budget
• No welding and only a handful of tools required
• Built here in the USA at our home town factory in Barneveld, NY by hometown workers from right here in the heart of Central NY
• Comes with a Three Year Warranty
• Perfect for the Do-It-Yourselfer, Small woodshops & hunting camps
• 20+HP gas Motor
• Budget Portable Sawmill • 36” Diameter • 14′ Steel Track Length (2 sections) • 2 Log Dogs with Squaring Posts • 19” Bandwheels • 31″ Between Guides • Proven Hud-Son Shoe Guide System • 20hp+ Gas/Electric Start Motor • 800lbs Total Mill Weight • 167″ x 1 1/4 All Purpose Blade • 5 Gallon Lube Tank System • Dual Measuring System with Quarter Scale and Inches
The Hud-son Warrior XL has Huge Power and log capacity at an affordable price. It carries the Hud-Son three year warranty. Get ready to work and get the job done with big power. Contact Hud-Son Forest Equipment or your local Dealer to get your Freedom Line Sawmill today.
• Complete with boom, rotator and grapple
• Designed to work with 3pt hitch set ups or universal quick connects
• Mount on the front of a skid steer, tractor or 3 pt hitch
• Move logs, brush and more with ease
• Included solenoid valve and toggle to switch one set of hydraulic remotes to each function
Uniforest Scorpion Grabs feature robust construction, are made from high-quality materials, have quality anti-corrosion protection and on movable parts, slide bushings are used which are lubrication free. The Uniforest Scorpion Grapple model 1300SV has a 51″ opening and closes down to 2-3/4″ with bypass jaws, 360 degree continuous rotation, 21,000 pound clamping power and heavy duty hydraulic fittings and hoses. The unit comes equipped with combined quick attachment and 3 point hitch use mounts. Has a built in diverter valve with hose kit and 12volt toggle. This equipment is designed for durability and stability, proven in the harshest conditions in the world. Applications for this equipment excel for small logging operations, landscaping, site development and disaster debris management. Whatever needs moving or remediation and for embankment stabilization or flood control diversion projects you can count on this equipment. There is clearly no equal to this equipment when used in close proximity operations, environmentally sensitive or low impact areas and for effective time management.
