Portable Sawmill
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construction materials
Milling a Crooked Log: How to Get Usable Lumber Without Wasting the Tree
Crooked logs can produce good lumber, but only if you cut for the log you have instead of forcing it to behave like a straight saw log.
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construction materials
Milling Your Own Lumber with a Wood-Mizer: A Builder’s Guide from Log to Usable Board
Portable sawmilling can turn good logs into valuable boards, slabs, and project lumber, but the saw is only one part of the job. Here is how to plan, mill, dry, and evaluate Wood-Mizer lumber the way a builder thinks about it.