SAWMILL EXCHANGE
How to Contact a Seller through Sawmill Exchange
This service is simple and straightforward.
The sellers pay our fee. Our service to buyers is free of charge.Please make your first contact to Sawmill Exchange by telephone.
We understand your time is important and you can’t always know everything there is to know about sawmill equipment. This is why we try to BRIEFLY talk with you about both the good and bad points of the equipment you are interested in. Our intent is to try to make sure you have good information to buy the right equipment the first time around.We operating this way because it's good business.
It empowers the buyer with good information, it saves the seller time and effort, and it lets us show that we treat people honestly and fairly. Win-win all the way around.If you are new to the industry: We can assist you in deciding which equipment may be best for you.
If you are an “old hand” at sawmilling: We can get you in touch with the sellers quickly.
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Equipment Categories: Our definitions of categories of sawmill equipment: |
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| Lower cost band sawmills best for farm, small acreage, or personal use | |
| Mills with automatic carriage feed, some with automatic setworks, but do not include log handling hydraulics. These mills are best for less labor-intensive personal use or for limited custom sawing. | |
Mills that include hydraulic log loading, turning, clamping, and some with hydraulic toe boards/taper for ease of operation and custom sawing |
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Higher end mills and complete operations for greater production, custom sawing, and commercial lumber manufacturing. |
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Portable and transportable mills for 1-2 person personal and commercial use. |
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Manual circular sawmills for personal or commercial use. These mills normally require 3-5 men for commercial operations but can be run with fewer if production is not important. |
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Higher production automatic and semiautomatic circular sawmills for commercial use. These mills normally require at least 3-5 experienced operators. |
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| Specialized equipment for primary and secondary breakdown and processing | |
| Chippers, Cutoff Saws, Debarkers, Dry Kilns, Edgers, Firewood Processing, Flooring, Gang Saws, Log Home, Log Loaders, Moulders, Pallet Manufacturing, Planers, Resaws, Scragg Mills, Shavings Mill, Shingle Mill, Other specialized equipment. | |
| Support equipment and sawmill accessories | |
| Air compressors, conveyors, electrical, forklifts, green chain, hydraulics, log decks, lumber carts, power units, sawdust removal, sharpeners, shrink wrapping, welding equipment, more. | |
All equipment listed with Sawmill Exchange is for sale by private owners. If you are interested in talking with any of the owners about their equipment for sale, please contact us at: US/Canada Toll Free: 800-459-2148 or Local: 205-969-0007