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Peterson Portable Sawmills are featured in many publications around the world and we have collated them here for you to browse through. Also in this section of our website, we have business and milling articles and general articles to help give you insight into the milling industry.
Project Ecuador: Sustainable Harvesting...
EcoMadera finds sustainable success harvesting with Peterson No clear-felling, no ugly scars to the landscape, no erosion, no dirty rivers, no messy roads or noisy trucks, and minimal disturbance to native plants and animals. Imagine a small portable mill winched into the forest by cable, trees selected by sustainability, and just the sawn timber carefully [...]
Salvaging Charred Trees
Every year, fires burn millions of hectares of forest worldwide. Often, as was the case with some of the fires during the recent tragedy in Victoria Australia, the fires are deliberately lit. Hard working firefighters fight the flames, and clean-up crews including sawmillers, salvage the remains. Forest fires can have devastating affects when they burn [...]
Swingmill Blades – Part 1: Blade...
What is a swingmill? A swingmill has a single circular blade that pivots; moving forward sawing in horizontal to make the first cut, pivoting to vertical at the end of the log, and then moving back to its starting position as it saws in vertical. Your dimensional board can now be removed from the log, [...]
Value Adds to New Technology (PDF)
The Pentarch News
Nathan Waterfield – Timbersports...
A Timbersports Competitor Partners with Peterson Portable Sawmills Peterson Portable Sawmills have recently joined forces with a rising star of the Stihl Timbersports Series, Nathan Waterfield. Nathan was born and raised in Warren, Pennsylvania where 100 years ago logging, sawmilling and wood processing was a major industry. Now the area is a mixed market of [...]
The Circular Blade (PDF)
Sawmill and Woodlot Oct/Nov 2007
Milling a Breeze for Young Farmer Hopefuls
In the dark, a horn sounds, a duck swoops overhead and there is a mad dash to starting places, its 7am and time to get underway at the Grand Final of the National Bank Young Farmer of the Year competition. The venue for this event is the Village Green at the lakefront in Rotorua, which [...]
Peterson Mills in the Military
In the hot baking sun a group of men stand huddled, staring intently at a circular blade as it makes its way through an old pine log. As the blade finishes the horizontal cut and clears the log, Sergeant Tom ‘Tippy’ Kerekere swings the blade to vertical with a gentle nudge of the pivot handle, [...]
Lessons on Turning Logs into Lumber from...
Sawmill and Woodlot (PDF)