Q. Is there someone who would cut nice poplar logs for timber? Darnestown A. Much like the local food movement, there is growing interest among woodworkers in building with local wood. Near you, ...

Salvaging dead or dying trees, and milling the logs into lumber is a great experience. It is part of the powerful connection I feel with the land, and I am always delighted to share it with my friends ...

Chopping logs vertically down the middle will give you half logs. Take those half logs and look at them horizontally, and you’ll then be able to cut them into smaller bits that you’ll be able to stack ...

"Some of the pieces were rather large to try to heft into the kind of vertical rack recommended by Ole Wik, so I devised a much simpler temporary version." Just over a year ago we featured an Alaskan ...

One of the first things I needed to figure out when I started cutting rough lumber on a sawmill was what thickness to make it. I could generally determine if I wanted it to be thick or thin, but just ...

Learn to work with a sawyer and save money while finding wood you can't buy anywhere else. For Logan Wittmer, woodworking starts right at the tree. On this episode, he shares about his portable ...