Mobile Sawmills

“My name is Serge Jourdan. I own a portable sawmill in the Haut-Verdon valley in Beauvezer, in the French Alps. Why did I choose the LT70 sawmill? Because it’s easy to move around. I work in a mountainous area, and when I go along the mountain passes and forest tracks at 2400 m altitude, I can always manage my sawmill. This machine is running virtually every day of the year!”

What is the best sawmill for working in mountainous areas? Sawmilling in the Alps requires much character and determination from the local sawmillers. Towing sawmills up mountainous roads can be challenging, even for the most experienced sawmillers. Apart from the skills and practical knowledge about wood, they also need the proper sawmilling equipment to do their job well.

Each time Swedish entrepreneur David Virén makes a board with his Wood-Mizer planer/moulder, he feels as if he has learned another lesson about wood. "Working with wood is more than just a job to be done. It's a learning process that you can get much satisfaction from," he explains.

“We no longer need a tractor to pull the logs out of the woods or a truck to transport ready boards to the customer's location,” tell brothers Geronazzo, the mobile sawmillers from Italy.

After two thousand years under water, an oak trunk from the Elbe River in Germany was sawn, dried, and turned into valuable material that will last for centuries.