Career and technical education for high school students will be taking new shape in Oregon following the passage of Ballot Measure 98 recently. Career and technical education (formerly known as vocational education) has historically been an important part of Oregon’s public school programming. But, over the past 30 years, these opportunities have diminished in schools […]

Western Red Cedar and Douglas-fir Milling If you have not noticed by now a long-standing CFD theme will continue… We have a number of logs that still need to be milled and then trimmed to length. If you are interested in milling lumber on a small band saw mill, this is your chance to ‘Learn […]

Volunteer hours to mill realist board foot per hour can you cut on your portable mill? Factors: On what mill? By yourself? With offbearers? How many? Just sawing? Or cleaning and stacking? Stickering? General: 200 bf in a week for classes Smaller amounts of logs sustained 150+bf/hr over 8 hr mix of logs from 8″ […]

24′ X 36′ Learning center Milling 16,000 board feet of lumber for learning center and outside 10 beams on bottom (maybe 8′ feet high 10 beams across Roof 8 triangles 12 smaller middle connecting Concrete posts