One sawyer, Two TimberKing Sawmills — one in California, one in West Virginia“I worked in the Sheriff’s Office in Los Angeles and retired from there after 26 years. I started looking at sawmills at the Los Angeles County Fair. Some, like the Wood-Mizer®, made you walk along beside the saw head as it moved, on […]
TIMBERKING’S THE BEST BANG FOR THE BUCK – so he bought two Read More »
GOT LOGS? John saws some BIG ones on his TimberKing 1600!Facebook forum for sawyers, timber folks, woodworkersI started the TimberKing Owners Group on Facebook as an information exchange for sawyers, timber folks, and woodworkers. People thinking about getting a sawmill tell me this group helps them, too. It’s a labor of love but, honestly, I
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AMERICANS are often described as “fiercely independent people.” And TimberKing owners tend to be strongly hands-on, D-I-Y folks. Here’s a story of a TimberKing owner way up in the Northwest who’s done working for others — now he’s DOING WHAT HE WANTS with a TimberKing sawmill.“After decades of working and doing what others want me
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Meet Sterling Paradiso, TimberKing owner, sawyer, do-it-yourselfer, and entrepreneur from Washington state. “Where to start my story? I grew up in and around forests. I live in the middle of nowhere, two hours from civilization, on the coast of Washington state. Years ago, I built a cabin to live in using an Alaskan sawmill. Looking back,
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“My cousin, Nathan Stewart, and I are in the wood business together. I started this as a commercial firewood business but it’s evolved and grown into making and selling slabs, furniture, and kindling. We’re sawing for ourselves and others. And we’re still processing and selling firewood. There’s a real value-added aspect to what we do.
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We at TimberKing received this email from one of our owners, Tim Heming. We were so interested in what he wrote us that we gave him a call to learn more about the home he’s building for his daughter, his sawing, and his future plans. Here’s the rest of Tim’s story…“I’m used to doing big
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“I’m a 7-days-a-week kind of guy: busy all the time and I don’t look to slow down any time soon. I did give up motorcycle riding, though. I’ll be 69 the end of next month and I saw lumber, do some boat and RV work, and I work as part-time manager at the heating and
“IF I’D KNOWN HOW MUCH FUN SAWING IS, I’d have gotten a sawmill 20 years ago!” Read More »
Dave Owen drove from Oklahoma to our factory in Kansas City, MO, to pick up his electric-powered 1600.I got a 1600 TimberKing sawmill with an electric motor. I built a shed for my mill before I picked the mill up in Kansas City. I poured a concrete slab and installed 3-phase wiring. I keep my 1600
“The folks at TimberKing treat you like you’re somebody special” Read More »
Keith Harnack and his 40′ RV towed his new TimberKing 1600 — all 3,540 lbs. of it. That’s 70′ of steel rolling 2,000 miles at 70 mph!“My lifelong dream has always been owning a sawmill. I was finally able to pull the trigger and I got a TimberKing 1600 last year. Now everything I’ve wanted
THE ULTIMATE ROAD TRIP — halfway across America with a TimberKing sawmill Read More »
What’s it take to make YOU happy? For Steve Litz, TK Owner from Columbia, NJ, it’s a mountain of logs and his 1600 TK mill. Oh, and his Talon Edger, too.“My involvement with sawing started when I was a little kid. Back in 1952 or so, I was five years old. My father ran a
