Choosing the Right Portable Sawmill

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Learn about choosing portable sawmills.
Learn about choosing portable sawmills.
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A portable band sawmill can produce boards and beams in almost any size you want.
A portable band sawmill can produce boards and beams in almost any size you want.
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Choosing the right portable sawmill. Les Oke of Northbrook, Ontario, cut all the lumber for his house with this Granberg International Alaskan Mark III chainsaw mill.
Choosing the right portable sawmill. Les Oke of Northbrook, Ontario, cut all the lumber for his house with this Granberg International Alaskan Mark III chainsaw mill.
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Chart: Bandmills at a glance.
Chart: Bandmills at a glance.

Learn what you need to know when choosing the right portable sawmill for your homestead.

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Portable sawmills fall into three general categories: chainsaw mills, circular sawmills and band sawmills. They are available in a diversity of styles and operating systems, and are priced to fit any budget. “Which to pick,” says Will Johnson, president of TimberKing, a portable sawmill manufacturing company, “depends on what you are going to do with it.”

The variables, he says, are how much lumber you plan to saw and how quickly you need to cut it. A third variable is hour finely finished you need the boards to he. Here are the pros and cons of each type of mill when choosing the right portable sawmill for your homestead:

  • Published on Dec 1, 2002
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