Take a moment to view the process of turning logs into lumber. You will discover the truth behind our mission statement – quality people, making quality products, for the future!
Incoming logs from public and private timber sales are offloaded and rolled out to be scaled. Once scaled, the logs are sorted and bucked for their characteristics and internally transported to the in-feed of the sawmill....
Logs are hoisted to a conveyor that sends the logs through a ring debarker. This removes all the bark from the logs before manufacturing. Once the bark has been removed, the logs transfer to a cut off saw which...
At the headrig, the stop and load transfers the logs onto the carriage. A 3-D scanner optimizes the log immediately for recovery, grade, and value. The sawyer maneuvers the carriage through the double edged band saw producing cants or...
At the edger in-feed, the cant is again optimized for value and manufactured to the specialized products that we market. Once through the edger, these products go through the center part of the mill where further quality decisions...
At the bin sorter, pieces of lumber are transferred horizontally in J-Bars to their ‘sort’ to accumulate until the pieces per package have been met. Once the number of pieces has been met, the bin is dropped and transferred...
Sitting on 3 acres, lumber from our sawmill is offloaded and dried in one of our 15 kilns. We have 9 Brunner Hildebrand package kilns, 3 American Wood Dryer package kilns, and 3 Wellons single track kilns. Annual drying...
After the dried lumber has cooled down, units are loaded onto a transfer chain that leads up to the planer. At the top of the tilt hoist, units are broken down layer by layer and fed through a Stetson...
Columbia Vista owns a 70,000 sq. ft. warehouse adjacent to our Dry Kilns and Fruit Valley Divisions. This site offers a variety of services to our customers from storage to exporting of products....
Our partner, DIS-TRAN Wood Products, occupies part of the 70,000 sq ft warehouse adjacent to our Dry Kilns and Fruit Valley divisions. DIS-Tran Wood Products maintains sizable raw material inventories of both distribution and transmission materials enabling us to...