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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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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I worked for a friend who introduced me to sawmills and I eventually got one of my own; a cantilever-style sawmill. I completely rebuilt it and ran cantilever mills for many years. They’re good mills but there’s a lot of downtime because they require frequent alignment that takes a lot of time. I’d do adjustments
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“I retired at 55 and I didn’t want to just sit around so I got a TimberKing sawmill. That was six years ago and I’ve pumped a lot of logs through the mill in that time.I once worked in the woods in the Olympic Peninsula. I always liked it — felling and logging. I ran
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“I was an emergency physician in Vermont for 33 years. Now I’m retired and I work at farming, logging, and sawing lumber with my TimberKing 2000. My wife, Rhonda, is a nurse-educator at a large Vermont hospital and my ‘right hand gal Friday!’Grandma ran a lumber millI’d had some sawing experience because my family was
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“I worked in the trades for 42 years. I was a journeyman millwright, working in plants setting up equipment like turbines in coal mines, milling machines, welding, and more. Everything we did was very precise, within thousandths of an inch. I built my own home. In fact, I’ve built two or three homes over the
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Are TimberKing mills built to last? Ask Tom Berryhill. His ran 20 years, 4,500 hours, before he rebuilt it. Here’s Tom’s story.“I own an older TimberKing sawmill. What really impresses me about this mill is it how it lasts and lasts. When it was 20 years old, with 4,500 hours on it, I went through
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