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Milling Your Own Lumber Video Series

Learn how to mill your own lumber during an in-depth 7-part video series that covers finding logs, sawing logs, edging lumber, sawmill blades, basic sawmill maintenance, drying lumber, as well as grading and pricing lumber!

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Cant Hook vs. Peavey

How to Choose a Cant Hook vs. Peavey

While both cant hooks and peaveys allow for rolling logs where you need them, share the same handles for leverage and swinging hooks for gripping logs, they are not exactly the same. So, what are differences between a cant hook vs. peavey?

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How to Saw Logs into Lumber

How to Saw Logs into Lumber

There are many different sawing methods and techniques to turn logs into lumber including live sawing, cant sawing, plain sawing, grade sawing, and quarter sawing. To get you started, here is an introductory course in sawing your logs to lumber.

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Market a New Sawmill Business

How To Market a New Sawmill Business

While it is true that as soon as you set the edge of a blade against the end of a log people begin to notice, but your business will never live up to its potential for profit unless you take steps to do some marketing.

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How To Market Products with an Environmental Advantage

How To Market Products with an Environmental Advantage

Environmental specialist, Jack Petree, discusses how to market your sawmill business and wood products with an environmental advantage.

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Saw in Cold Weather

How to Saw in Cold Weather

As colder temperatures arrive and logs begin to freeze, here are helpful sawing tips, reminders, and answers to common questions to compete with the cold weather sawing challenges faced by sawyers this time of year.

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How to Charge for Sawing Services

How to Charge for Sawing Services

Learn the three most common methods to charge for your sawmilling services including by the hour, by the board foot, and sharing finished lumber.

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Select a Sawmill Blade Type

How To Select a Sawmill Blade Type

Offering more than 60 bandsaw blade profiles with an extensive array of combinations based on hook angle, tooth set, width and thickness, which Wood-Mizer sawmill blade is best for you?

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How to Network with Professionals

How to Network with Professionals

When’s the last time you talked to an architect, designer, engineer, or contractor who didn’t contact you first? Learn how talking to building professionals will help you gain customers for your sawmill business.

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What is a Board Foot

What is a Board Foot?

Board foot is a common term used by sawyers and wood suppliers, but what does it mean and how is it measured?

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