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Mobile Sawmilling Services
With the sawmills, we can turn felled and wind blown trees into useful timber for a variety of purposes including fencing, cladding, furniture making and timber framing. Some of the products that have been milled using both the Wood-Mizer and chainsaw mill include: Products: Beams Green oak construction components Posts and rails Square edge boards Waney edge boards Cladding Tree stakes/supports |
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Uses:
Construction timbers
fireplace and door lintels
raised beds
decorative garden features
post and rail fencing
garden furniture
furniture making/cabinet making
flooring
About Our Wood-Mizer Sawmill
The Wood-Mizer sawmill is driven by a 30 hp diesel engine and uses hydraulics for lifting and handling the trunks on the saw bed. Once lifted on the bed, a log up to 3ft wide, 21ft long and 2 tonnes in weight, is cut with a bandsaw blade that moves back and forth on the carriage. The sawmill hydraulics can turn the log through 360 degrees to produce posts and beams as well as boards of any thickness required.
About Our Chainsaw Mill
For trees with a diameter of over 3ft wide, we will use our chain saw mill to cut boards to your required thickness. The chainsaw mill can be taken to less accessible sites than the Wood-Mizer and generally is more suitable for larger slab wood cuts or reducing the size of larger trees. Often we can use a combination of the two machines to process logs by firstly reducing the weight or diameter with the chainsaw mill then completing the cutting using the Wood-Mizer.
Site Preparation (ideal but not essential)
• Planning the site layout greatly increases the efficiency of the milling operation. All operations from felling to stacking the sawn planks should be designed to avoid unnecessary double handling. Ideally you should know what dimensions you require before you crosscut the timber
• Ideally you should crosscut the logs to as long a length as possible. Short lengths require as much handling as longer logs, e.g. if you require 6 foot fence posts, cut the logs to 12 feet (only suitable for straight logs).
• The sawmill worksite should be reasonably dry and level. Preferably on a hard standing. It needs to be large enough to set up the saw, to stack and move the logs and also have room to stack the sawn boards and the waste slab wood. A tractor with forks or telehandler would greatly assist with handling the timber, more so if large boards/beams are required.
• Dirty logs will quickly blunt the teeth of the saw blades, so logs should be kept as clean as possible when bringing them to the site.
All limbs should be trimmed flush. Check thoroughly for wire, nails or stones. Damaged saw blades will be charged to the job so it is in your interest to minimize any damage to the blades.
• The logs should be stacked with their butt ends together on bearers to reduce timber being dirtied and to ease handling. The stack should be positioned so that the logs can easily be rolled to the saw.
• To ensure value for money, the sawmill operator should be kept sawing continuously. This means keeping the supply of logs flowing while getting sawn planks and waste out of the way.
For this one or two assistants will be needed depending on the size of the logs. Provision of a cutting list of the sizes and quantities should be provided.
• Stacking the timber for drying straight off the sawmill will minimize double handling. You will require a large number of 25mm ‘stickers’ to put between the planks to allow air to circulate.
Construction timbers
fireplace and door lintels
raised beds
decorative garden features
post and rail fencing
garden furniture
furniture making/cabinet making
flooring
About Our Wood-Mizer Sawmill
The Wood-Mizer sawmill is driven by a 30 hp diesel engine and uses hydraulics for lifting and handling the trunks on the saw bed. Once lifted on the bed, a log up to 3ft wide, 21ft long and 2 tonnes in weight, is cut with a bandsaw blade that moves back and forth on the carriage. The sawmill hydraulics can turn the log through 360 degrees to produce posts and beams as well as boards of any thickness required.
About Our Chainsaw Mill
For trees with a diameter of over 3ft wide, we will use our chain saw mill to cut boards to your required thickness. The chainsaw mill can be taken to less accessible sites than the Wood-Mizer and generally is more suitable for larger slab wood cuts or reducing the size of larger trees. Often we can use a combination of the two machines to process logs by firstly reducing the weight or diameter with the chainsaw mill then completing the cutting using the Wood-Mizer.
Site Preparation (ideal but not essential)
• Planning the site layout greatly increases the efficiency of the milling operation. All operations from felling to stacking the sawn planks should be designed to avoid unnecessary double handling. Ideally you should know what dimensions you require before you crosscut the timber
• Ideally you should crosscut the logs to as long a length as possible. Short lengths require as much handling as longer logs, e.g. if you require 6 foot fence posts, cut the logs to 12 feet (only suitable for straight logs).
• The sawmill worksite should be reasonably dry and level. Preferably on a hard standing. It needs to be large enough to set up the saw, to stack and move the logs and also have room to stack the sawn boards and the waste slab wood. A tractor with forks or telehandler would greatly assist with handling the timber, more so if large boards/beams are required.
• Dirty logs will quickly blunt the teeth of the saw blades, so logs should be kept as clean as possible when bringing them to the site.
All limbs should be trimmed flush. Check thoroughly for wire, nails or stones. Damaged saw blades will be charged to the job so it is in your interest to minimize any damage to the blades.
• The logs should be stacked with their butt ends together on bearers to reduce timber being dirtied and to ease handling. The stack should be positioned so that the logs can easily be rolled to the saw.
• To ensure value for money, the sawmill operator should be kept sawing continuously. This means keeping the supply of logs flowing while getting sawn planks and waste out of the way.
For this one or two assistants will be needed depending on the size of the logs. Provision of a cutting list of the sizes and quantities should be provided.
• Stacking the timber for drying straight off the sawmill will minimize double handling. You will require a large number of 25mm ‘stickers’ to put between the planks to allow air to circulate.