The forest economy is full of various actors and agents that provide different services in the supply chain. Usually, these are broken down into three roles: The landowner, the logger, and the sawmill. If you act as a landowner, you usually sell timber to a logger. Occasionally, however, a landowner will act as a logger…
Lumber is most often measured in board feet, especially in forestry and milling. Whether you are a sawmill operator wondering how many boards you can get out of a tree or a carpenter tallying up board feet for a project, it can be helpful to know exactly how many board feet are in individual boards….
Congratulations! You have purchased a sawmill and joined the elite guild of small-scale portable sawmill owners. But there is just one problem: You don’t have any logs. No worries—In this article, we will cover the four main methods of getting logs so you can keep your sawmill full and happy. Namely, the primary ways of…
If you’ve been interested in sawmills for any length of time, you have likely seen the term “kerf” floating around. Did you ever wonder what that term meant? Simply put, kerf is the term for the width of the saw cut and the associated volume loss that occurs from sawing or milling. It is the…