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The second day I was there we went to the mill. The mill is about forty minutes away in New Haven. The company City Bench made a deal with the city of New Haven that they will take a fraction of the trees that go down in the city and use them. This makes it so the city doesn’t have to deal with processing the trees
and having to deal with it. At the mill there are hundreds of slabs of wood stacked all over the place. They are all named and numbers for organization. There is a huge brown barn on the other side where they store the tools and saws. Inside is very organized with the tools all in boxes and on the walls. There are pegs on the walls holding the sharp chainsaw blades, dull ones, and new ones. Also inside the barn was the Peterson saw. It is a very long horizontal chainsaw used for cutting the bigger trees into slabs. We rolled it over to the metal rails it sits on and set it up. Ben taught me how it works and what to do when we are cutting the logs. You lower the blade to how thick you want the slabs and then walk and push the blade through the log. While you push through the log you need to insert wedges into the slab you are cutting so it doesn’t fall and pinch the blade. After you cut a slab you can go back and cut more underneath, or you can unload it off the log and set it down while someone measures it and takes a picture. The slabs are very beautiful when they come off of the saw and you can have an idea of what it could look like as a table or piece of furniture.

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