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Sawmill
Portable sawmills can be moved and used in the field or at a central
location where suitable logs have been staged.
On some fuels reduction projects,
there will be a few trees of good
quality timber, but not enough to be
economically feasible to transport to a
sawmill. Portable sawmills can be used
to process saw logs on-site where they
can be set up next to the trees being
cut. The sawn logs are used to make
picnic benches, desks, siding, window
frames, shelves and more. Produced at
a sufficiently small scale not to compete
with private industry, these products
are donated to State agencies, local
governments, charities or used at
CAL FIRE facilities.
Specialty timber products
not readily available through
lumber yards can be milled
on a portable sawmill. They
are useful in urban settings
too, where moving logs
would be unpractical.
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