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The saws that cut logs into lumber are highly specialized pieces of equipment requiring special blades. The blades that our head saw uses are over 36 feet long and 10 inches wide with teeth on both the front and rear edge to reduce wobble. They are worth nearly $1000 a piece and must be resharpened after sawing about 10,000 feet of lumber. This life can be dramatically shortened should the blade strike metal. Over the years we've hit bullets, musket balls, axe heads, nails, pipes and other metal. If we are lucky, the sawyer is able to stop the saw before any serious damage occurs. We have, however, lost whole blades to metal strikes.
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