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If you’re like most visitors to this site you may have a tree laying in your yard after a storm, or perhaps one that is due to be removed.  Maybe you have driven by a construction site where trees have been taken down.  You may have wondered whether there is any useable lumber in those logs, what is involved in getting that lumber and what it would cost.  This site can answer most of your questions. 

You may be a woodworker who has access to logs and, with the high cost of hardwood boards at retail outlets, might be curious about whether you can save money by processing your own lumber.  How easy is it to find turning stock in the size you need, or 2" thick slabs, or 6" thick mantle pieces, or boards with a live (irregular bark) edge?  Are you a landowner with mature trees who would like to turn those logs into lumber for personal use or sales rather than selling to a logging company.  It may even be a special tree, one that died after years of providing shade and protection for your home or one from a family farm and you would like to keep a souvenier of those times.  

My clients have a wide range of uses for their logs and I'll do what I can to meet your expectations or explain to you why I can't.  You can specify how you want your logs sawn, widths up to 24", thicknesses down to 1/16" accuracy.  The conventional image of a 'sawmill' can be quite daunting but modern, portable, bandsaw mills work very well in most environments.

If your location is not suitable for milling on-site, I do take appointments for milling at my home near Eudora, Kansas - in western Johnson County.  If you don't have the equipment or help available to bring your logs here I may be able move them for you.  If you have a log that might make good lumber but don't want to deal with it, please call me.  I may be willing to haul it away at no cost to you rather than see it wasted. 

If you are not in my service area my site has several links that can help you find a sawyer closer to your home.  Whichever way those logs are turned into lumber, we all gain from the ecological benefits of making boards rather than burning them as firewood or dumping them in a landfill.

There is a lot of information on this site and I would encourage you to read through it.  It should answer most of your questions and might even bring up new ideas.

Use the tabs at the top of the page to access the information on the site.  If you have questions not answered here, feel free to call me or use the contact information below.  Thanks for visiting my site and I look forward to sawing lumber for you.