Tips and How-To

Buying a portable sawmill is an important decision. First and foremost, you should buy from a company you can trust. Next, look at the performance functions. A sawmill's performance depends on FOUR key areas: power, design, operation, and log handling.

Sawmill owners frequently search for methods to increase timber production, focusing on speed and efficiency. Wood-Mizer provides a variety of sawmilling machines designed to help expand your sawmill operations and boost your business's productivity. This article compares Wood-Mizer's industrial sawmilling solutions: the EG800 edger and the MR200 multirip.

Small property owners and farmers occasionally need to cut logs into boards for projects like fence repairs or shed construction. Since log sawing is a relatively simple, infrequent task, (...) the initial solution might be to utilize an existing chainsaw by adding attachments for horizontal log cutting. Let's explore and compare the features of the band sawmill and the chainsaw mill ...

The Industrial Sawmilling Lines, or Wood-Mizer Systems, introduce automation and smart solutions to produce timber efficiently at lower costs. Glinkowski Sawmilling Company has operated its Wood-Mizer industrial sawmilling line in Poland since 2021. The line made it possible to customize the machinery to specific business needs and incorporate the existing equipment at the factory into the new Wood-Mizer Systems setups.

Learn how to install or replace a straight knife in a Wood-Mizer planer/moulder cutterhead. Each cutterhead has four slots; two always have straight knives, and the other two can have straight or profile knives, depending on the carpenter's tasks.

Edgers and multirips are designed to edge sideboards, slabs, and flitches with wane and rip cants and blocks into boards consistently and efficiently over time within very tight tolerances. Any sawmill that wants to expand its output, cutting accuracy, and recovery rates to get higher yields, can use an edger or multirip to achieve these goals.

Learn how to store sawmill blades correctly and safely to avoid potential blade damage.

Learn how to safely unpack sawmill blades from a flatpack box and prepare them for sawing.

The tutorial video explains some most common maintenance operations for Wood-Mizer MP260 and MP360 four-sided Planer/Moulders, as well as for MP200 Planer/Thicknesser.

With Wood-Mizer machines, increasing your sawmilling production volume and timber recovery is an accessible and intelligent business. Upgrade your sawmilling operation and improve productivity by adding resaws and edgers to your sawmilling line.