Barrack Farms

Listing #509 Listed on: 04/30/2014

Barrack Farms is located in the lower Mississippi delta near Louise, MS on land pioneered by grandfather back in the early 1900�s. The farm still contains about 80 acres of mature delta bottomland hardwood forest. I mill logs into dimensional lumber, beams and slabs using a Lucas 825 portable sawmill. We try not to cut live trees and mill those trees from our 80 acre woodlot that have met their demise as a result of old age, wind blow-down or lightning strike. Of those, there are plenty. Future plans may include thinning of certain species from the woodlot and might require taking live trees.

I own the Lucas Slabbing attachment which utilizes a rip chain to cut slabs from logs up to a maximum practical limit of about a 54� width and a 8� thickness. Planing slabs flat (once dried) is done as required with a proprietary circular planning blade made by Lucas.

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Company Name: Barrack Farms

Contact Name: Charles Barrack

Location: Yazoo City, MS 39194

Year Founded: 2006

Sq. Footage: 5,000

Employees: 1

Gross Sales: N/A

Website: barrackfarms.com

Product Specialties:

Hardwood Lumber
Milled Lumber / Lumber for construction
Other Wood Products

Service Specialties:

Custom Sawing

Sawmill Equipment:

Planers - Lucas 825 planer
Resaws - Laguna HD 16
Other - Kubota 8560 w/ log handling accessories
Woodworking - Laguna planer/joiner/drill press
Sawmills: Portable - Lucas 825
Canters and Slabbers - Lucas 60"

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The normal set up of the mill uses a 21� circular blade which I use to cut dimensional lumber (mostly 2x6�, 2x4� and 2x2� stock). I also use the circular blade to cut beams of any size but mostly up to 12�x12�.

Lengths can go up to about 20 feet with my setup but I usually cut logs to 11 feet unless I need something special. This provides me with boards that are manageable and that fit in my drying shed easily. All of my lumber is air dried but I hope to add a kiln in the future if sales warrant one.

The 85hp Kubota with front forks and a rear lifting bar does all of my log extraction and wood handling. I started with a 55hp but it quickly became evident that more ponies were going to be needed. I would say that 85hp is the lower end for an AG tractor that will be used for log and lumber handling.

When running the mill, I cut between 500 and 1000 bf/day. It varies dramatically especially with slab and beam cutting. Production is always best with logs measuring 30� or better as lots of b.f. can be generated without handling many logs. Production, however, is almost never my primary goal as I spend a great deal of time planning cuts to expose the best grain patterns and wood shapes. I sometimes spend months without milling lumber while I procure logs and work on projects built with the wood I have previously cut and dried.

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