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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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
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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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
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?
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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How To Improve Lumber Sales
Improve sales of lumber and slabs by sharing the unique story of the wood you are selling.
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How to Hire Local Sawmills
Looking for sawmills in your area? If you have storm damaged or dying trees on your property, a local sawmill owner can help turn your logs to lumber. Learn how to find and hire a sawmill service near you.
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How to Shop for a Portable Sawmill
Learn how to shop for a portable sawmill by looking at performance functions such as power, design, operation, and log handling.
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How to Quarter Saw Lumber
Quartersawn lumber is in great demand from woodworkers, cabinet makers, furniture shops, and craftsmen due to its unique grain patterns. Learn how to quarter saw your logs into lumber with a bandsaw mill.
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