KANE Continued
KANE Continued 2020, testing and production were carried out with the newly acquired equipment. Collins (Kane Hardwood) is thankful to all of its employees and all of its local contractors that helped make this happen, according to a company spokesperson. “This is a big win for improving the overall quality of our grade lumber and delivering to our customers exactly what they are looking for,” the spokesperson added. The sorter-stacker combination enhances the alreadyin-place machinery. Kane operates a sawmill that contains two primary breakdown centers, a Filer and Stohl headrig, and a TS Manufacturing C-Frame twinband mill for smaller dimension logs. Those machine centers feed a TMT Combination Board Edger/Curve sawing 8-inch gang with Nelson Brothers scanning. Grade logs are processed by the Headrig and Salem Horizontal Resaw. All lumber is rough graded. A Lucidyne Grademark reader hands off trim solutions and bin assignments via PLC. Key personnel at Kane include: Bryan Stahli (maintenance superintendent), Todd Laitinen (engineer for the Rick Engebretsen P.O. Box 157, Fordsville, KY 42343 Phone: (270) 276-3367 Fax: (270) 276-5464 Email: henry@dunawaytimber.com My family and I are very proud of the fact that all of us, and all of our employees and customers, are “Right to Life” advocates. For our customers, we have nine sawmills that cut a variety of Appalachian Hardwood concentrating heavily in crosstie length. We focus on 4/4 and 5/4 lumber in all grades. Poplar is cut 4/4 through 6/4 down to pallet cants. Our stave mill produces Bourbon staves and heading, and we buy pulpwood by the ton. Contact Henry Christ for your Appalachian Hardwood needs! 30 CHRISTMAS 2020 n NATIONAL HARDWOOD MAGAZINE
project) and Bob Jackson (electrical engineer on the project). Without these men, Kane could not have pulled off this project. Kane wishes to offer a big thank you to all of them and all the other employees that contributed to the implementation of its new system. Kane Hardwood employs 96 people from forest to outbound products. The sawmill, located on land totaling more than 100 acres on the north side of Kane, PA, produces 24 million board feet of lumber each year. About 55 percent of that gets dried as grade lumber. The rest is sold green into the flooring, cabinetry, rail tie and pallet markets. Kane produces lumber in 4/4 to 8/4 thicknesses, 6 feet to 16 feet in length for domestic and export customers. The sawmill sells all species, including Ash, Red and White Oak, Hard and Soft Maple, Poplar, Birch and Black Cherry, “the best in the world,” according to a company spokesperson. Overall, products include domestic and export lumber and logs, straight line and gang ripped lumber, veneer Bo Hammond Please turn the page GTL LUMBER 16 Dry Kilns 800,000 BF Dry Kiln Capacity 2,000,000 BF Air Dry Capacity GRAF & THOMAS LUMBER GTL Lumber, Inc. (est. 02/19) 4/4 Rift & Quartered - White Oak • Poplar 4/4 Plain Sawn - White Oak • Hickory • Poplar • Red Oak SLR2E & HM Available Contact: Erin Cox 740-250-4227 • erin@gtllumber.com Graf & Thomas Lumber (est. 02/17) 4 Log Yard Locations Vanceburg, KY • Grayson, KY • South Shore, KY • Ironton, OH Container Logs - Ties - Timbers - Crane Mats - Cants Contact: Damon Graf 740-727-1003 • damon@grafwood.com 4 LOG YARDS 2 SAWMILLS CHRISTMAS 2020 n NATIONAL HARDWOOD MAGAZINE 31
