NH Portable Sawmill Directory 2021 Cheri Birch, New Hampshire Timberland Owners Association Andy Fast, UNH Cooperative Extension

About this Directory

Portable sawmill services provide New Hampshire residents a unique opportunity to connect with local forest products. Whether that is wood harvested from their own land that is being used to build a home, custom hardwood slabs for a living room table, or softwood lumber for a chicken coop, there is an intimacy that clients can access that is often missing from other lumber buying experiences. This portable sawmill directory provides a listing of known portable sawmill services in the state of New Hampshire at the time of publication. Services, prices, sawing consistency and efficiency, experience and other attributes vary among portable sawmill service contractors. The information provided in this publication is largely based on public information and feedback provided by those who are listed. Listing in this publication is not an endorsement of any of the individuals or businesses herein, and it is important for those seeking a contractor to do due diligence prior to working with any portable sawmill service. Those seeking contracted services and providers of those services should have a written agreement identifying the services provided, prices paid, and other provisions that are important to either or both parties such as proof of insurance. In some cases, local code enforcement officials may want assurance that locally produced lumber meets an appropriate grade for building. The New Hampshire Native Lumber Law allows mills to certify that lumber produced is equal to or greater than No. 2 grade (American Softwood Standard) once the mill has successfully completed the NH Native Lumber Law program. For more information on the NH Native Lumber Law, visit extension.unh.edu/ extension.unh.edu resource/new-hampshire-native-lumber-law The University of New Hampshire We hope you find this directory useful and enjoy the projects – small or Cooperative Extension is an equal opportunity educator and employer. large – that are before you. University of New Hampshire, U.S. Department of Agriculture and N.H. counties cooperating.

NH Portable Sawmill Directory | May 2021 | 1 Table of Contents

Charles Levesque 3

Clark’s Lumber 3

Dame Sawmill 3

Headwaters Boatworks 4

Hidden View Sawmill 4

Jesse Matras Custom Lumber 4

Jones Wood Products 5

Lenzi Lumber 5

Phil Barker Portable Custom Sawmilling 5

Portable Sawmill Service 6

Rick Senter’s Classic Landscapes, LLC 6

Timber Technical, LLC 6

Tree Sawyer/Monadnock Firewood 7

Trees to Dreams 7

Wayne Hackeman 7

Whit Patridge 8

Woodmills Lumber 8

WrightWay Custom Sawmilling 8

NH Portable Sawmill Directory | May 2021 | 2 Charles A. Levesque President Boscawen, NH 03033 Tel: (603) 965-5434 37 Old Pound Rd County: Merrimack Antrim, NH 03440 Email: Mill Location: North Water St. Contact: Charles Levesque

Comments: Wood Mizer LT40 Super. Will mill logs up to 18’ in length and up to 26” in diameter at client site or at Boscawen, NH location. Will travel within a 15 mile radius, or mill client’s logs delivered to our Boscawen location. Client site must have 10,000’ of space clear for operating on flat ground around piled logs. Contract sawing: please call for details.

Clark’s Lumber 118 South Hemlock Road Contact: Steve & Hank Clark Email: [email protected] Charlestown, NH 03603 Tel: (603) 826-7754 Website: https://clarkslumber.com Mill Location: same as mailing Tel 2: (603) 477-1320

Comments: Specialize in custom rough-cut, full-dimension lumber with an expanded capability for customized mill products (lengths up to 32’). Clark’s Lumber is a family owned thirty-five-year-old company operating a Woodmizer LT40. Able to travel with portable sawmill within a 100-mile radius of the business location. Submit a request for a quote for pricing and scheduling information.

Dame Sawmill

Strafford, NH County: Strafford Tel: (603) 664-9611 Mill Location: Same as mailing Contact: John Dame

Comments: Dame Sawmill has a LT40HD (portable) and LT15 (stationary) sawmill with the ability to saw logs at the sawmill or at the client’s location to specification, April-November. NH Certified Grader, Framing #2 and better. Maximum 20’ in log length and 36” in diameter. Travel distance: 20 miles or less preferred. Min. volume: 1000bf. No equipment available for moving logs. They should be in a stacked pile.

NH Portable Sawmill Directory | May 2021 | 3 Headwaters Boatworks 2172 Rt 25A Contact: Jordon Sutherlin Website: headwatersboatworks. Orford, NH 03777 com/index.html Tel: (603) 443-3409 Mill Location: Same as mailing Email: headwatersboatworks@ County: Grafton gmail.com

Comments: Custom sawing at the sawmill or the client’s location. Woodmizer LT40 with a capacity of 21’ x 36”. Maximum travel distance 30-40 miles. Hourly rate; 6-hour minimum. Need a reasonably level site with approximately 46 feet of space for pulling in the truck and trailer, milling, and stacking. Services include custom sawing, custom planing, timber framing, flooring, furniture.

Hidden View Sawmill 528 Washington Hill Road, Contact: Scott, Dennis, and Jan Email: [email protected] Chocorua, NH 03817 Brown Email 2: [email protected] Mill Location: Same as mailing Tel: (603) 323-8244 County: Carroll Tel 2: (603) 396-2342

Comments: A small, family run sawmill sawing 4/4 through 8”x8” timbers in 6’-16’ lengths. Hidden View Sawmill saws rough cut hemlock, pine, and oak. They can custom saw at their site, have an edger and saw about 30,000 board feet annually.

Jesse Matras Custom Lumber

Mail: 159 B Pleasant Street Contact: Jesse Matras Facebook: Jesse Matras Custom Chichester, NH 03258 Lumber Sawing Tel: (603) 848-7299 County: Merrimack Email: [email protected]

Comments: Portable custom lumber sawing with a Wood-Mizer sawmill. Will travel up to 90 min. and saw logs into any dimensions you would like. Need access for 8’wide mill, flat ground, and wood piled up. Operating area approximately 10’x30 next to the pile. Rates charged by the board foot for hardwood and softwood. $350 minimum plus travel fee. Will also custom saw logs at Chichester, NH location. Planing is available for up to 20” wide lumber. I have a variety of pine and hardwood lumber in stock in various lengths, widths and levels of dryness. Year-round service.

NH Portable Sawmill Directory | May 2021 | 4 Jones Wood Products P.O. Box 194, Pittsfield, NH 03263 County: Merrimack 7244 Pleasant Street, Loudon, NH Ben Jones joneswoodproducts.com 03307 Contact: Website: Mill Location: Pleasant Street, Tel: (603) 724-0717 Loudon, NH Email: joneswoodproducts@ outlook.com Comments: Jones Wood Products LLC. specializes in kiln drying of lumber and slabs, portable saw milling and chainsaw milling. Products include flooring, S4S moulding and planer services, timbers for timber frame buildings, rough sawn lumber and slabs for bars and tables. Projects include custom flooring, bar tops, tabletops, fireplace mantles, tiny houses, tiny offices, small camps, sheds and other buildings, playgrounds, chicken houses, pergolas, and raised bed gardens. The chainsaw mill can cut logs up to 54” wide and unlimited length. The portable band saw can accommodate logs up to 36” diameter and with the extensions up to 33’ long. Ben Jones is a NH Native Lumber Law certified sawyer and registered sawmill operator with the state of New Hampshire. Quotes are usually done over the phone or in the field.

Lenzi Lumber 155 Young Road County: Strafford Barrington, NH 03285 Contact: Brian Lenzi Email: [email protected] Mill Location: 64 Ross Road Barrington, NH 03825 Tel: (603) 664-9634

Comments: Typically accommodates orders in in the 1,000 bf to 10,000+ bf range but will look at any project in Strafford and Rockingham County area. Board Foot, Hourly or Daily rates available. Wood Mizer LT40 will accept logs up to 20’ long and 30” in diameter.

Phil Barker Portable Custom Sawmilling 56 Symonds Lane, Contact: Phil Barker Website: linkedin.com/in/phil- Washington, NH 03280 barker-2386ab48/ Tel: (603) 495-3640 Mill Location: Same as mailing Email: [email protected] County: Sullivan

Comments: Accepts logs up to 45’ long and up to 36” in diameter. Can cut boards, dimensional stock or beams of most any size for cabins, homes, barns, outbuildings or timber frame projects. Timber Frame component work available including chain mortising and tenons to specification. Custom sawing at the sawmill or the client’s location; no minimum travel distance. Logs can also be supplied to the customer. Logs at the client’s site must be stacked and have about 200’ of space in which to move. Other services: Restoration sawing. Call for a quote.

NH Portable Sawmill Directory | May 2021 | 5 Portable Sawmill Service 21 Taterboro Road County: Carroll Website: portable-sawmill-service. Center Sandwich, NH 03227 business.site/ Contact: Randall W. (Randy) Haight Mill Location: Same as mailing Tel: (603) 284-7798

Comments: Portable Sawmill Service of Sandwich provides custom sawing of dimensional lumber at client’s location. Randy Haight is a Certified New Hampshire Native Lumber Law grader, providing custom work to select clients in a limited geographic area including Meredith, Center Harbor, Moultonboro, Sandwich, Tamworth, Ossipee and Madison.

Rick Senter’s Classic Landscapes, LLC 80 Rockrimmon Road Mill Location: 12 Old Coach Road, Tel: (603) 498-4818 Kingston NH 03848 Kingston NH 03848 Email: [email protected] Mail: 12 Old Coach Rd, Kingston NH County: Rockingham 03848 Contact: Rick Senter

Comments: Custom sawing at the sawmill or the client’s location. Rick Senter’s Classic Landscapes will harvest the client’s timber, mill it to specification, do site work, and construct outbuildings if needed. Wood Mizer LT50 wide-cut 34”. Rated to 36” diameter, but can saw up to 42” in diameter and up to 21’ in length; prefer 20’ or less. Hourly rate: 4-hour minimum plus travel time. Other Services: Tree work, Site work, Out Building Construction, Landscape Construction.

Timber Technical, LLC 300 Horne Street, County: Merrimack Tel: (603) 456-2001 Warner, NH 03278 Contact: John Brayshaw Email: [email protected] Mill Location: same as mailing

Comments: High-end portable cutting and timber framing. Will travel to states in New England area. Certified NH Lumber Grader. Other Services: Custom Timber Framing, Post & Beam Construction.

NH Portable Sawmill Directory | May 2021 | 6 Tree Sawyer/Monadnock Firewood 457 Middle Winchendon Road, Contact: Matthew Lavoie Website: treesawyer.com Rindge, NH 03461 Tel: (603) 593-9177 Mill Location: Same as mailing Email: [email protected] County: Cheshire

Comments: Custom sawing at the sawmill or the client’s location. Wood-Mizer LT70 makes boards up to 24” wide and up to 35” thick. Tree Sawyer/Monadnock Firewood has tractors and equipment to move logs if needed. Slabbing is also offered up to 70” wide and any thickness or length. Harvesting, stacking and stickering available too. Other Services: Tree climber, stump grinding, firewood, lumber, slabs.

Trees to Dreams 399 1st Avenue, Berlin, NH 03570 County: Coos Email: [email protected] 269 Williams Hill Road, Grafton, NH Jon Leveille & Roger facebook.com/ 03240 Contact: Website: Leveille treestodreams/ Mill Location: 2 locations: Berlin & Grafton Tel: (603) 723-4933

Comments: Custom sawing at the client’s, or one of two Trees to Dreams locations. One mill saws logs up to 16’ in length, the other can saw logs up to 21’ in length. Products include timber frames, 2-bys, boards, slabs, hardwood, and softwood. Logging and trucking available. No minimum volume; hourly rate or board footage rate for larger jobs. Trees to Dreams has the ability to move logs on-site. Other Services: Custom furniture and built-ins, wood crafts, wood burning, campfire wood, tree removal of downed trees and other tractor work.

Wayne Hackeman 270 Dean Road County: Merrimack Tel: (603) 768-3457 Danbury, NH 03230 Contact: Wayne Hackeman Mill Location: Same as mailing

Comments: Custom sawing at the sawmill or the client’s location. Other Services: fenceposts, special beams, timber framing.

NH Portable Sawmill Directory | May 2021 | 7 Whit Patridge 460 Wentworth Hill Rd. County: Carroll Tel: (603) 986-7441 Sandwich, NH 03227 Contact: Whit Patridge Mill Location: same as mailing

Comments: Custom sawing at mill location or client location. Prefer to operate in the Lakes Region. Will source logs if needed. Please call for details and pricing.

Woodmills Lumber 118 Bush Hill Road, County: Hillsborough Tel: (603) 880-6367 Hudson, NH 03051 Contact: James Mills Website: woodmills.com Mill Location: Same as mailing

Comments: Offering various wood related services to tree work companies, other business and homeowners. Woodmizer LT70HD thin kerf bandsaw sawmill; Chevy 4500 dump truck, with roll off dumpster container service; Blue Ox 7-ton log loading trailer; Multitek 1610 EZ firewood processor. Services and products: Custom cut lumber from your logs or ours. Log hauling, pickup service for tree work companies, firewood. Air dried native lumber rough cut or finished

WrightWay Custom Sawmilling 405 Old Post Road Tel: (603) 493-7598 Website: facebook. Newbury, NH 03255 com/WrightWay-Custom- Tel 2: (603) 938-2947 Sawmilling-206557256069539/ Mill Location: same as mailing Email: County: Merrimack wrightwaycustomsawmilling@gmail. com Contact: Rick Wright

Comments: Custom hardwood and softwood sawing of any diameter and length, from wide pine to hemlock beams to oak trailer decking. WrightWay Custom Sawmilling can supply logs. Call to see what is available. On-site sawmilling available (minimum 1,000 board feet).

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