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...
Custom Milling on Your Portable Sawmill
The simplest solution to marketing lumber is to sell the service instead of the wood. A number of sawyers have built successful businesses on...
Tools of the Sawmilling Trade
When you go out on a cutting job with your portable sawmill, what do you take with you? If you’re working close to home...
Sawing Imperfect Logs
When I first started running a portable sawmill, I was confident every board was going to be free of defects; I would have a...
Milling Different Tree Species
In the Missouri Ozarks, there is a plethora of tree species to keep things interesting at the sawmill. Technically the forest is classified as...
Upgrading Your Portable Band Sawmill
Operating a portable sawmill opens up a world of possibilities, both as a source of building material and as a source of income. When...
Wood Variety is the Spice of a Sawyer’s Life
When it comes to using a portable bandsaw mill the question should be not “What can you cut?” but rather “What can’t you cut?”,...
Top Ten Reasons for Owning a Portable Bandsaw Mill
If you’re considering the purchase of a mill to cut your own lumber or to start a sawmilling business, we’ve come up with a...
Measuring Logs and Lumber Using Different Scales
When is a board foot not a board foot? Most of the time, as it turns out. You probably already know that a 2x4...
Spring Cleaning Around Your Sawmill
What is it with spring cleaning? Why spend all that time tidying up during the muddiest season of the year? If it were just...
