Dimensional lumber
2x4 through 2x12, sawn to the lengths you need instead of the ones a yard happens to stock.
Timber
Custom sawing
Custom sawing means I saw your logs into your lumber. You keep every board of it. You are paying for the sawing, not for the wood.
- The mill comes to youPortable mill, set up next to your pile. Nothing gets loaded twice, and the slabs and sawdust stay on your place where they are worth something.
- Or bring them here99 Bailey Hill Road, New Sharon. Drop the logs off and tell me what you want out of them.
What comes off the mill
Cut to size
Timbers & beams
6x6, 8x8, and bigger. Posts, sills, headers, bridge stringers, barn frames.
Live-edge slabs
Tables, counters, mantels, benches. Cut thick, so there is still something there after it is flattened.
Siding & boards
Board-and-batten, shiplap, plain boards. Pine, hemlock, whatever you have standing.
Before the mill shows up
Five things that save you money
- Keep the logs cleanDirt and grit dull a blade far faster than wood does. If you can skid them onto poles or a pallet instead of dragging them through the mud, you will get more sawing for your money.
- Tell me about metalOld fence wire, nails, a hook grown into a dooryard maple. Metal costs blades. If you know or suspect it is in there, say so and I will work around it.
- Cut them longTrim to length after sawing, not before. An inch too short is firewood.
- Have somewhere to stackLumber comes off the mill green, and green is heavy. Level ground, something to keep it off the dirt, and stickers every couple of feet.
- Saw sooner rather than laterLogs left on the ground through a warm summer go blue and soft. Winter and early spring are kind to a log; August is not.
Drying. Green off the mill is not dry. Air drying runs about a year an inch if it is stacked right and kept under cover. If your job needs it kiln dry, I will saw it and point you at somebody who kilns.
Tell me what you are trying to do
Call and describe the job. I will tell you whether it is something I do, roughly what it takes, and when I could get to it.