Nelson Wood Shims Installs Wood-Mizer Sawmill System to Drive Productivity Nelson Wood Shims, the largest shim manufacturer in North America, recently installed an industrial sawmill system from leading wood processing equipment manufacturer, Wood-Mizer, at its state-of-the-art, high volume sawmill facility in Minnesota, USA. Read More »
Building Santa’s Sleigh with a Wood-Mizer Portable Sawmill With the combination of being a woodworker and owning a Wood-Mizer portable sawmill, Gregg Turk made an incredible new wooden sleigh for Santa Claus. Read More »
Sawmilling and Woodworking for Education in Wisconsin Located in Northern Wisconsin, Travis Allen and Logan Wells are teaching sawmilling and woodworking at Northcentral Technical College to educate and prepare the next generation of woodworkers and forest products professionals. Read More »
Mesquite Treehouse Milled and Made in Southern Arizona Arthur and Valerie Flores of Tumacacori Mesquite Sawmill in southern Arizona milled and made a unique mesquite treehouse with their Wood-Mizer portable sawmill. Read More »
Mulberry Chapel Built on 450-Acre Farm in Georgia After dreaming and planning for decades, George Coker milled and made the Mulberry Chapel on his 450-acre farm in Georgia with his Wood-Mizer portable sawmill. Read More »
Building Wooden Toy Cars in Michigan for Operation Christmas Child Ken Postema, My Wood-Mizer Project Contest award-winner and woodworker from Michigan, uses his Wood-Mizer portable sawmill and planer/moulder to build tens of thousands of wooden toy cars for Operation Christmas Child. Read More »
Sawmilling in Trapper Creek, Alaska Vickie Knapp shares her story of sawmilling in Trapper Creek, Alaska with her late husband and their Wood-Mizer LT40 portable sawmill. Read More »
Expanding the Narrow Gate Through Woodworking The Narrow Gate Foundation has helped more than 500 young men discover a relationship with Jesus Christ while finding and pursuing their life’s purpose through woodworking. Read More »
Sawing Lumber for Cabins in Michigan Steve Kesti, owner of Backwoods Lumber and volunteer firefighter, uses his Wood-Mizer LT40 hydraulic portable sawmill and MP260 planer/moulder to produce and sell lumber for cabins, chicken coops, siding, flooring and other products in Michigan, USA. Read More »
Farming and Sawing Live Edge Slabs in Central Indiana Fourth-generation farmer Adrian Hood and his father Randy are growing a successful sawmill business which includes the production of high-value live edge wood slabs, heirloom furniture, and dimensional lumber with a Wood-Mizer wide cut sawmill and slab flattening mill. Read More »
Restoring Men Through Christ, a Sawmill and a Woodshop In Lafayette, Indiana at Restoration Sawmill and Hardwoods, dozens of men have overcome addictions and started new life chapters by learning how to work in a sawmill and a woodshop. Read More »
Wheeler Mission Producing Pallets to Change Lives Wheeler Mission Pallet and Industry produces high quality pallets while rehabilitating a workforce through Christ-centered programs. Read More »
Wood-Mizer Missions Team Visits Costa Rica Teaming up with Youth with a Mission (YWAM), several Wood-Mizer employees and family members traveled to Costa Rica to build a housing structure for visiting missionaries in the area. Here are a few first-hand experiences from the mission team’s travels. Read More »
Building Churches and Schools in Papua New Guinea Missionary Jesse Pryor returned to Papua New Guinea where he was born and raised to build churches, schools, and medical facilities for the local community in the remote jungle. Read More »
Reducing Poverty in Zambia with One Small Sawmill Developed by missionary philanthropist John Enright, a co-op style honey initiative, is taking off in Zambia, and improving lives for the 10,000 individuals already involved. Read More »
One Small Sawmill Creates Positive Change in the Congo Jungle Missionary Glen Chapman tells how one small sawmill in Congo has improved lives in amazing ways. Read More »
Diversification Brings Profitability for English Farmer Henry Brown diversified his hill farm in Northern England by sawing and selling timber locally with a Wood-Mizer portable sawmill. Read More »
Converting Illegally-Logged Timber into 146,000 School Desks in the Philippines After confiscating ten million board feet of illegally logged timber, the Philippines Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources salvaged the logs to produce thousands of desks and chairs for schools in desperate need. Read More »
Making Major League Baseball Bats From Forest To Field Why swing with an old bat, when you can swing with a Young one. In the mountains of North Carolina, the family-owned and operated Young Bat Company handcrafts wooden baseball bats from forest to field for everyone from little leaguers to Hall of Fame caliber players. Read More »
From Sawing Raw Logs to Moulding Finished Flooring in Scotland Just outside of Edinburgh, Scotland, Sandy Crook has retired from his full time arborist business to spend more time with what he really enjoys, seeing timber turned into final products. With his full complement of Wood-Mizer sawmills and new MP360 planer/moulder, he can do everything in-house. Read More »
Family Sawmilling Business Producing Pallet and Grade Lumber in Northwest Ohio The family-owned and operated L. Garbers & Sons Sawmill in Northwest Ohio was established in 1997 by Luther and Kathryn Garbers and their two sons David and Marty. What started out as a side business with a portable sawmill has grown into a full-time operation with a high-production industrial sawmilling system producing pallet material, cut stock, blocking, and grade lumber in Wauseon, Ohio. Read More »
Handcrafting Zen Chairs in Japan At the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan, world-renowned woodworker Tak Yoshino creates custom, handcrafted chairs that promote proper and healthy posture through the practice of Zen. As a result of his chairs receiving worldwide acclaim and an increasing number of woodworkers learning Japanese carpentry from Tak, he is currently building a woodworking school with sustainably harvested timber from his own forest. Read More »
Valley View Cedar Producer Builds Sawmill Business in British Columbia Located on two acres in Kamloops, British Columbia, Valley View Industries produces and sells a variety of cedar products including gazebos, fencing, and more to customers throughout North America and Japan. Read More »
From Portable to Production Sawmilling in New York State On the outskirts of Buffalo, New York in the small town of Holland, is the hard-working family sawmilling business Holland Timber Company. Starting as a portable sawmill for homeowners, the business has evolved to a production mill supplying cabinetry, flooring, and pallet manufacturers throughout the Northeast United States. Read More »
Making End Grain Cutting Boards in Nova Scotia Located on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada, Larch Wood handcrafts wooden end grain cutting boards from sustainably managed and harvested larch trees. In addition to its beautiful coloring and grain patterns, Larch Wood specializes in end grain cutting boards because they are durable and feature a self-healing cutting surface. Read More »