Do What You Love - The Secret of Fritch Sawmill Success
Fritch Sawmill owner Eric Fritch tells the family business story, explains the step-by-step production process, and gives valuable advice to anyone looking for business success.
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Creating Custom Pallets with the WM4500 Industrial Sawmill
Located in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, Dan Ullmann and his team at DJ Pallets are using their Wood-Mizer machinery to repurpose recycled pallets and create their own custom pallets for customers across America.
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Furniture Maker Mills One-of-a-Kind Cypress Desk
Kyle Snellenberger had the creative idea of using an entire log for one piece of furniture, so he milled and made a one-of-a-kind statement piece for a hotel lobby in Louisiana.
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Engaged Couple Build Yoga Studio in Colorado
Residing in Salida, Colorado, Parker Dunbar used his Wood-Mizer LT15 portable sawmill to create a brand-new yoga studio for his fiancé, Jillayne.
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Summerlin Family Creates Dream Projects for Oregon Resort
Bryan Summerlin and his family used their portable sawmill to create a beautiful pavilion, covered bridge, wraparound deck, and outdoor bench at the Neal Creek Resort in Scio, Oregon.
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Third Generation Electrician Develops Sawmilling Business in Ohio
Located in Cincinnati, Ohio, Paul Gangloff went from electrician to sawyer, opening his own sawmilling business, Riverside Logging and Sawmilling.
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The Art of Boat Building in Wisconsin
Located on the beautiful shore of Lake Superior in Wisconsin, woodworker and sawyer Joshua Swan has been building unique wooden boats for more than two decades.
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Good Wood Nashville Preserves History through Salvaged and Reclaimed Wood
Good Wood Nashville, located in scenic Nashville, Tennessee, is dedicated to turning salvaged and reclaimed wood from tragedies, natural disasters, and urban development into amazing works of art including a once-in-a-lifetime project with Belmont University.
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Constructing a Unique Wooden Chapel on a Connecticut Farm
Farm owners Bill Finnegan and Amy Finnegan along with their friend, Jon Scott, used a Wood-Mizer portable sawmill to mill trees from their farm and build the stunning Trinity Knot Chapel in Connecticut as a place to thank God for their blessings.
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Father and Son Industrial Sawmill Business in Ohio
Located in the lush rolling hills of Piketon, Ohio, Brandon Wooldridge and his son Bryce run their own sawmill business, Deep Woods Lumber Co. The family owned and operated sawmill business was established in 1998 and recently upgraded their equipment to a Wood-Mizer WM4500 industrial sawmill system to carry on their long family tradition of sawmilling.
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Going Global
Part of the "Our Beginnings" documentary series, "Going Global" shares the story of Wood-Mizer's humble beginnings to serving customers on six continents throughout the world with globally-recognized sawmill and woodworking equipment.
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Our Beginnings
Part of the Wood-Mizer 40th Year video documentary series, “Our Beginnings” is the 25-minute short film featuring the inspiring story of Wood-Mizer - the product, company, and philosophy.
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A Special Start
Part of the "Our Beginnings" documentary series, "Sawmill #1 – A Special Start" shares the story of Wood-Mizer's first portable sawmill.
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The Legacy of Don and Dan
Part of the "Our Beginnings" documentary series, "The Legacy of Don and Dan" shares the story of Wood-Mizer's two founders - Don Laskowski and Dan Tekulve.
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Wilson Enterprises Grows with Wood-Mizer WB2000 Industrial Sawmilling System
Located in the beautiful Upper Peninsula of Michigan, family-owned and operated Wilson Enterprises has provided high-quality evergreen and wood products for home décor, construction, and craft projects since 1985. Recently, the company invested in a Wood-Mizer WB2000 industrial sawmilling system to process logs to finished products all in-house while offering their wood products in close to 5,000 retail stores throughout the United States.
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Nonprofit Urban Sawmilling in Metro Atlanta
Located within the city limits of Atlanta, Georgia, the nonprofit sawmill, Atlanta Wood Foundation, was established in 2021 to save damaged, diseased, and fallen urban trees from the landfill while providing high-quality wood to the surrounding woodworking community.
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Family Run Sawmill Business in Oregon
Located along the beautiful Pacific coastline in Seaside, Oregon, Marlborough Milling produces rough-sawn lumber as well as custom wood furniture with a Wood-Mizer LT50 Hydraulic portable sawmill.
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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.
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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 was able to build an incredible new wooden sleigh for Santa Claus.
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Sawmilling and Woodworking for Education in Wisconsin
Located in Northern Wisconsin, in the small town of Antigo, Travis Allen and Logan Wells have dedicated their talents to teaching sawmilling and woodworking at Northcentral Technical College (NTC). In doing so, Travis and Logan have set their sights on educating and preparing the next generation of woodworkers and forest products professionals.
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Sustainable Logging and Sawmilling in Sandy, Oregon
Chuck Vance has spent the last thirty years shaping his 39 acres of forest near Sandy, Oregon. Chuck’s forest can provide enough logs each year to sustainably support his sawmill, benefiting his environmental goals and his community’s goals as well. Through those years he has sequestered more than 50 million pounds of CO2 equivalent in greenhouse gases.
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Reclaiming Urban Timber in Pennsylvania
Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Manayunk Timber is a family-owned and operated urban sawmill that uses their Wood-Mizer portable sawmill to preserve the city’s rich history.
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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.
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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.
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Building Wooden Toy Cars in Michigan for Operation Christmas Child
Ken Postema, My Wood-Mizer Project Contest award-winner and woodworker from Michigan, USA uses his Wood-Mizer portable sawmill and planer/moulder to build tens of thousands of wooden toy cars for Operation Christmas Child.
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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.
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Restoring Men Through Christ, a Sawmill and a Woodshop
Restoration Sawmill's goal is helping men struggling with addiction in Indiana, USA. With a LT40HD portable sawmill, they are able to sustain their non-profit mission and, more importantly, teach men the values of hard-work and service.
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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.
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Farming and Sawing Live Edge Slabs in 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.
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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.
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The Emerging Economy of Urban Wood
By sawing urban wood with a Wood-Mizer portable sawmill, Megan Offner and New York Heartwoods are reducing wood disposal expenses, redirecting material from the waste stream, decreasing greenhouse gas emissions, fueling the demand for local wood products, and growing an exciting new economy.
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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.
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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.
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Sawmilling and Horse Logging in Western North Carolina
Sometimes the size of a business is less important than the potential impact a company can have on the community it serves. Mountain Works’ core approach to business revolves around its function as a demonstration project seeking to bring about change in the way most forestry and agriculture is done in America.
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Urban Sawmilling in Hawaii
Established in 2010 as a collaboration between an ISA Certified Arborist and a sustainable building consultant, Josh Greenspan and Alex Woodbury of Kamuela Hardwoods save logs from the landfill to create locally-sourced, high-quality, salvaged lumber for islander woodworkers, builders, and instrument makers in their Hawaiian community.
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The Building of Noah's Ark
One of Wood-Mizer’s smallest sawmills was used to cut 50% of the timber for the world’s largest freestanding timber frame structure – a Biblically-sized reconstruction of Noah’s Ark.
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Building a Cabin with a Portable Sawmill
Billy Reeder didn’t just build a cabin by milling his own lumber with a portable sawmill, he built a new life. A simple life. A good life.
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Building Timber Frame Homes in Indiana
Timber frame structures are known for their big, heavy, dramatic designs and David Watters of The Beamery based in Indiana uses his Wood-Mizer portable sawmill to build them.
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Durability and Tradition Drives Family Timber Framing Business
Ogonek Custom Hardwoods in East-Central Ohio grew out of a family's love for a place that represents much more than an investment. With deep family roots, Dan and his family enjoy building and assembling timber frames with their LT50 sawmill.
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Mississippi Sawyer Builds Timber Frame Home
Mack Lowery turned a tragedy into a dream come true when he finished his stunning hand built, two-story, timber frame home in the dense woodlands of Mississippi. The first log cabin Mack originally built as a young man in 1976 burned in a massive fire that left his family homeless and devastated.
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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 thousands of board feet daily of pallet material, cut stock, blocking, and grade lumber in Wauseon, Ohio.
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