“Many years ago, I saw an interesting article on sawing lumber in Popular Science magazine. I never dreamed I’d become a sawyer and own my own mill.I’m a retired electrical engineer. When I retired, my wife and I decided we didn’t want to spend $8,000 on a vacation to Hawaii to celebrate. That would have […]
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Dennis Miller is a skilled, full time mechanic whose gig is fixing submarines and ships for the US Navy. At the same time, he’s building a self-sufficient lifestyle — he’s building a homestead, raising some livestock, and creating a future business opportunity for himself.Dennis’ brand new TimberKing 2000 Diesel sawmill is the centerpiece of his
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“I’m located in Central Alberta, Canada, and call my business Bear Creek Timbers. I’m sawing local spruce and pine. I’m a carpenter but my passion is timber framing. I still build stick-built houses but my goal is to make timber framing my main gig. I bought my TimberKing 2000 in order to supply my business
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We came across a front-page article in the San Marcos (Texas) Daily Record reporting on the area’s devastating 2015 flood. Cars overturned, mature trees uprooted, homes damaged. The photo featured one of our TimberKing sawmills hard at work sawing flood-downed trees into lumber. We had to know more and called Doug Caroselli, owner of Blackhawk
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Continuing his great-grandfather’s legacy“100 years ago, my great-grandfather owned forested land and started an industrial sawmill and firewood business here in Oregon’s Hood River Valley. My grandfather helped make it a success in the boom years after World War II. Our family got out of the wood business in the ‘60s but the property stayed
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After his retirement from a career in the US military, Bob Manaugh of Lexington, Indiana bought a TimberKing 2000 sawmill and a Woodmaster 725 with the goal of starting a new career. Not long ago, Bob gave us an update…“With a TimberKing and a Woodmaster, we’re adding value and making more money at every turn.
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Todd’s an Urban Logger. He’s running a successful sawing business out of his suburban backyard just outside Phoenix, Arizona. Though he’s in one of America’s driest regions, he says there are plenty of trees locally. He gets all the wood he can cut…and he gets it for free.“I always wanted a sawmill”“I recently retired from
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“In our business, we go ‘tree-to-tie’ – we turn standing trees into railroad ties. We go into the woods to cut trees. We skid them out, haul them back to our yard where we run them through our TimberKing mill and turn them into railroad ties.We don’t do custom cutting the way some yards do.
When a majestic, high-value tree stands in the way of new construction, it’s unceremoniously knocked down and ends up as trash in a landfill. Adam Scardamalia, Scardamalia Builders, is doing his part to reverse chronic devaluation of Nature’s bounty with his TimberKing sawmill. He’s stopping waste and adding value in a true American “trash-to-treasure” story.“Watching
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There’s Swamp Cypress, Bald Cypress, Black, White, Yellow Cypress and many more — but did you ever hear of “Pecky Cypress?” How about “Pecky Sinker Cypress?” Meet Lacy Lary IV, TimberKing owner and Pecky Cypress sawyer.“I was born and raised here in Mississippi. I went to Ole Miss (University of Mississippi) for a business degree,
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