Cutting Your First Log on Your New Mobile Sawmill
So, you’ve purchased a brand-new portable band sawmill. Now what? Here are ten helpful tips and a beginner's project to successfully mill your first...
Using your Sawmill to Mill Short Logs
How is it that you spend twice as long milling short logs for half the lumber? The fact is, sawmills are typically designed to...
How to Use the Entire Tree When Salvaging Wood and Cutting Lumber
First of all, when it comes to using the entire tree, you can trust nature to waste nothing. Eons before the first axe took...
Where and How Can I Sell the Lumber I Cut on My Sawmill?
The best part about running a portable sawmill is being out on a beautiful day with a light breeze at your back (blowing the...
Portable Sawmills Used to Salvage Urban Logs and Generate Lost Revenue
How many times have you taken down a tree and wondered whether there just might possibly be more to do with it than firewood,...
Show Your Portable Sawmill Some Love
Ah, Valentines! While other peoples’ fantansies may turn to love, the true sawyer is dreaming of yarding up some logs and kicking out some...
Profitably Market Lumber Cut on Your Own Portable Sawmill
You can only mill so much lumber with your portable bandsaw mill before you have enough stacked up in the shed, barn, garage and...
How Long Should Your Band Saw Blade Last?
That depends on a number of factors. I generally cut about 600 board feet of oak on a manual band saw mill, if the...
Milling Damaged Wood
Life out in the woods is brutal, even for a tree. During its lifetime, a tree can sustain damage from fire, insects, lightning, drought,...
Autumn Milling
Autumn has to be the best time to run a portable bandsaw mill here in the Missouri Ozarks. After a summer of enduring 100-degree...
