“My wife and I began our careers as scientists in the pharmaceutical industry. My degree is in chemistry, and Carolina’s is in biology. After several years in the field, we decided to take a different path. Today, we’re full-time sawyers running our own business. From the lab to the sawmill Leaving the corporate world wasn’t […]
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“I grew up in rural Oklahoma and I have great memories of helping my grandad with his old circle sawmill. He was born in 1904. That was an earlier time; a pioneer time. He had a farm and an old circle mill. He sawed lumber for the farm and farmhouse. And he sold some lumber,
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Martin Burkhart saws LOGS SO BIG he’s had to whittle them down a bit to fit through the TimberKing’s cutting throat. How big is that? His 2020’s max log diameter is 39″. So this big boy’s pushing 40″ wide or more!“The sawing business has been in my blood for generations. Both my granddads ran sawmill
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Ever hear of using WHOLE, ENTIRE TREES as building material – trunk, branches, and all – everything but the roots?A company named WholeTrees has been supplying WHOLE TREES as building materials to the industry for nearly 20 years. Creating and filling a unique niche, they do it all: felling, processing, milling, designing and engineering structures,
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Phil builds extraordinary structures with his TimberKing SawmillPhil and Gayle Alley have created a truly remarkable homestead — Hosta Alley — 150 acres of deeply shaded old growth hardwoods, extensive hardscaping, and many gardens overflowing with more than a thousand varieties of hostas. And throughout the Alleys’ outstanding landscape are many unique, finely-crafted post-and-beam garden
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Ryan keeps a close eye on the TimberKing head’s progress through his squared-off cant.“I’m a landscaper. In my business, landscaping includes handling everything on a property. I do excavation, stone work, roads, foundations, heavy construction, even build outbuildings, cabanas, and custom homes. And I fell clients’ tress and saw them into lumber with my TimberKing
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I’ve sawed lumber my whole life.“I grew up on my grandfather’s farm where he had an old-style circle sawmill. I helped saw since I was a kid. My dad, brothers, and I sawed out lumber for neighbors for 40 years!Then it clicked…I got a mechanical engineering degree and worked in the chemical industry for 20
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Father and son know that sawing BIG LOGS requires A BIG, BIG TIMBERKING SAWMILL!“By trade, I’m a utility integrity inspector. I travel to utility ‘digs’ all over the USA to make sure crude oil and gas utility systems are safe and regulation-compliant. My son, Ryan, is 25 and works construction. A few years ago, he
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A business philosophy based in SERVICE“My dad started Wyco Wood Co. years ago. I started sawing with him in about 1990 and we’ve been sawing together ever since. Back then, a friend cleared trees for a utility company and supplied me with really beautiful logs. Dad and I started out with chainsaw mills but they’re
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“Nobody around here can cut 60” slabs like I can with my TimberKing“I started doing woodworking in high school, then continued as a hobby. A friend started a taxidermy business and I started making mounting plaques for him out of exotic hardwoods. That work yielded a lot of exotic wood scraps and I turned them
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