SawCost

Our portable sawmill produces smooth, planer-ready boards, suitable for all applications from crafts to furniture (green wood must be dried before it is used for indoor applications). Cedar Creek Sawmill can cut logs up to
16 feet in length and 36 inches in diameter. The thin bandsaw kerf produces 30% more wood per log than circular sawmills. We can mill any species of wood, dried or green, to any dimension desired! And we can mill your logs at your site, so they don't have to be hauled to the sawmill. We can also saw logs that you deliver to our De Soto, Kansas location.

Log Characteristics

To produce the most desirable lumber, logs must be relatively straight and void of knots and branches for the length to be cut. Forks in Walnut and some other woods can produce highly desirable crouch wood containing lots of figure. Crooked logs or logs with unusable sections should be sawed into smaller lengths (minimum of 5 to 6 feet) to produce sawable logs.

There should be no foreign objects (nails, rocks, fence wire, etc.) in the logs. If hidden nails or wire are found in the log, they will need to be chain sawn out before lumber milling can continue.
A log should be a minimum of 12 inches in diameter (37 inch circumference) to produce much usable lumber. Walnut should be 2 inches larger in diameter because the first inch around the outside of the tree is less desirable white wood.

All logs must be located in a flat area accessible to a standard truck pickup puling the sawmill. Each log should be placed parallel to the level sawing site so they can be rolled onto the sawmill log loader.

Logs should be from 5 foot to 16 foot in length.

Most native Kansas and Missouri hardwoods can be sawed into lumber. Some species are more desirable than others. Oak, Walnut, Hickory , Maple, Apple, Elm, Soft Maple, Sycamore, Osage Orange (Hedge) and others can be sawed.

Pricing

We offer a free, no-obligation price quote to complete the total job.
Items that may affect the sawing cost are log location, log size, log condition and number of logs.
The average cost to the customer for lumber sawed by Cedar Creek Sawmill is $1.00 per board foot of usable lumber. Larger logs will average less cost per board foot than smaller logs. Please see the section on estimating lumber yields from logs to calculate approximately how many board feet your log might yield.

Cedar Creek Sawmill's hourly rate is $60 per hour.
There is no minimum number of hours for logs you deliver to our Desoto, KS site.
The minimum number of hours to saw at your site is 4 hours.
(no charge for mileage or travel time for the first 50 miles from DeSoto, KS.)

A large 30 inch diameter 8 foot log might take up to 4 hours to saw, but it would yield approximately 300 board feet of lumber. A small 12 inch diameter 8 foot log would take 1 hour or less to saw and yield approximately 30 board feet of lumber.

Payment
Full balance with cash or check is due immediately upon completion of the job.
Damage to saw blades caused by hidden debris or foreign objects in logs (nails, rocks, fence wire, etc.) may be charged up to $25 per blade.

CUSTOMER RESPONSIBILITIES
Log preparation must be completed before the sawmill arrives.
This consists of: 1) Cutting the logs to the desired length2) Moving the logs to one central location3) Positioning the logs parallel to each other near a level, truck accessible sawing location4) Centering the logs lengthwise5) Placing large logs on skids or parallel boards to ease rolling them onto hydraulic loaders6) Removing dirt and debris from logs7) Removing dirty bark or power washing dirty logs
In addition, customer agrees to keep all children and spectators at a safe distance from the sawing operation and to provide a safe work area.
Customer agrees that the sawyer is not responsible for damages to any property, including, but not limited to plants, shrubs, landscaping and grass caused by the sawmill, towing vehicle or the sawing operation.
Customer is responsible for all site clean up and removal of bark and unwanted parts of the log from the site.