In this class the GWA members and several guests gathered at Louis Alexander's mini farm in downtown Lilburn on a chilly 26 degree morning. Rick Clark (owner of Wood Genesis from McDonough) brought his trailer mounted Wood Mizer portable saw mill and set it up amongst an assortment of logs that were to be cut into lumber. Louis had already arranged a large number of logs that had been brought there by a number of tree cutters that had cleaned up after recent storms. Rick gave a short talk about the machine. He explained that this model was fully computer controlled and required very little manual handling once the log was on the loader forks. The $37,000 machine has a 51 hp Caterpillar diesel engine and , under the control of an onboard computer, will slice logs into lumber in thicknesses as small as 1/16”. As the morning progressed, Rick and various helpers made lumber out of several logs and stacked it for air drying (which was explained as requiring 1 year per inch of lumber thickness.)