Customer Stories

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.

In Northern Italy, Marco Marcante says he can quadruple the value of his raw logs by processing them into custom timber with his Wood-Mizer LT15 sawmill.

The practical and convenient conversion of logs to timber depends on a strong and precise sawhead with an adequately selected sawmill blade and a reliable sawmill bed that lays the foundation for the entire machine. The sawmill bed equipped with efficient hydraulics allows the operator to rotate and level the log quickly while maintaining the safety and ergonomics of work. In addition, a mobile version of the sawmill will allow for the on-site conversion of logs just where the customer needs it.

Spanish railway company RENFE Viajeros invited a sawmiller with a portable Wood-Mizer to restore four vintage Strawberry Train cars. The wagons were made using wood almost a hundred years ago.

The PRO WOOD company from Latvia reports it has tripled production volume while keeping the same employee number and significantly decreasing wood waste after they started operating the Wood-Mizer WM4000 sawmilling line.

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.

"In the Savoye region, wood is alive all the time. Even if it's cut, it still lives and serves the people," claims Yvan Cometto, a carpenter from a small village in the French Alps. In his company YC Charpente, Yvan makes wood products from the local timber using Wood-Mizer equipment. He enjoys working with wood while discovering its beauty. "I wouldn't change this place for anything else in the world," he admits with a smile.

The engines installed in the first LT40 sawmills at the beginning of the 1990s were economical and relatively strong. Still, most importantly, they were a perfect match for a portable sawmill's lightweight and compact construction. These engines established a new direction in building modern sawmills outclassing the clumsy and inefficient stationary frame sawmills used in the industry at the time.

Indonesian company cuts exotic hardwoods to boost their sales in China and Japan. The company employs 150 workers and has improved profits since it purchased a Wood-Mizer LT20.

Arthur and Valerie Flores of Tumacacori Mesquite Sawmill in southern Arizona milled and made a unique mesquite treehouse with their Wood-Mizer portable sawmill.

The sawmilling industry in Europe in the late 1980s was believed to be old-fashioned and inefficient, relying mainly on heavy frame sawmills. These outdated sawmills used thick and wide blades for sawmilling logs, limiting timber production. A breakthrough came at the beginning of the 1990s, along with the launch of the first Wood-Mizer LT40 sawmill featuring a thin and narrow sawmill blade designed to increase cutting efficiency while reducing waste was also groundbreaking.

It's the dream of many a maker to create furniture with timber sourced a matter of yards from the workshop. While that might be achievable for people living in rural settings, when your workshop is in the heart of the East End of London, not exactly timber country, that sounds pretty nigh impossible. Thanks to the eminently portable Wood-Mizer LT20 sawmill the Eric Street Plane tree, felled some five hundred paces from my workshop and lying somewhat unloved for the last eighteen months, is now resting in a neat stack of many dozens of valuable planks.

Stan Kujala built a dream greenhouse on his lakeside property in Port Alberni, British Columbia with Douglas fir and cedar milled on his Wood-Mizer portable sawmill.

Doddik Sulistiono is the owner of Citra Fajar Utama - a wood processing and furniture manufacturing company in the Klaten region of Central Java, Indonesia. The company was using the traditional vertical bandsaws for all their log breakdown. They began to look for other options and tried out a Wood-Mizer sawmill. They were so impressed with the surface quality and recovery, they bought three Wood-Mizers – an LT15 and two LX100 sawmills.

TODAY, the Wood-Mizer LT40 model sawmill created in 1982 is called „legendary” as it forever changed the way people convert logs to timber. It allowed everyday users to produce ready boards and beams quickly, and efficiently, and, most importantly, the mobility to process wood on-site. In the 80s, the LT40 sawmill also unlocked a new direction in building portable machines for processing logs.

For the past 20 years, the Alta Val di Suza Forestry Consortium of Turin, Italy, has relied on Wood-Mizer sawmills to achieve two goals of sustainable forest management - protecting the environment and efficiently using raw 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.

Sweden is a country with rich traditions of woodworking and reverence for forests which cover two-thirds of the country. With forests properly maintained, the wood-processing industry has a leading position in the Swedish economy. Many foresters, sawmillers, and woodworkers rely on Wood-Mizer equipment that helps their owners to run successful woodworking businesses throughout Sweden.

The MMBB project that joined several urban communities in Catalonia is successfully developing a circular economy for the efficient and waste-free use of wood from public forests.

In 2022 we celebrate the 40-year birthday of the famous Wood-Mizer LT40 sawmill that revolutionized the way people mill wood around the world. This orange sawmill with a characteristic saw head suspended over the sawmill bed, two wheels, and a tow clamp, has won recognition and popularity among customers worldwide. Today, the LT40 is known as a "legendary" sawmill.