Category: General

  • Sawing Huge Maple With Chainsaw Mill

    At Country Wood Products in Mio Michigan I have this large pile of over sized and oddball logs that I got from other sawmills. These are sawmill rejects. They had flaws that made them unfit for lumber at the mill. But those flaws are exactly what I am looking for in my live edge slabs.…

  • Our Services

    Live Edge Flattening Service We can flatten your live edge slabs for you. No matter if your live edge slab is a small cookie or a full sized slab of wood, we can do it. Our capacity ranges from mere inches in diameter all the way up to 4 feet wide by 16 feet long…

  • Sawing Blue Stain Pine Lumber

    I am sawing some of the popular Blue Stain Pine logs. Many of these have some interesting orange colors as well. This is turning out to be very beautiful lumber. The pine blue stain comes from a harmless fungus that rides on a pine beetle. The fungus searches for the nutrients in the wood and…

  • Rough Sawn Lumber

    Our sawmill is running daily, sawing out lumber for sale to our customers or for use in our wood shop. We have many species of lumber being sawn out, including oak, maple, pine, poplar and hemlock. Lumber sizes range from half inch thick boards to 1x dimensional lumber, 2x lumber and even live edge slabs.…

  • Comparing The Different Types Of Firewood

    Here in Northern lower Michigan there are a few different types of fire wood that you will most commonly encounter. We will cover the most common ones and explain the pros and cons of each. Hardwoods Including Oak and Maple. Oak and maple are the most commonly burnt fire wood types around here. There are…

  • Live Edge Slabs

    We have a growing inventory of live edge slabs for sale. Wood species include maple, pine, poplar, hemlock, cedar, and oak among others. Live Edge Slabs are generally sawn anywhere from 1 to 3 inches thick. Our live edge slabs vary in size and shape from rounds to long boards up to 12 feet long.…

  • Got The Sawmill Fired Up This Spring

    This spring we got the sawmill fired up and running. We are sawing live edge slabs and rough sawn lumber. Check out our products pages for details and inventory of the materials we have on hand. Hardwoods Including Oak and Maple We have a supply of oak and maple logs coming into our shop which…