Miller Photos
We are lucky to have customers and friends all over the world who send us photos of their escapades.
If you have a photo that you would like to send in, email it to us, and you might see it placed right here in the coming months.
Building a home with a Peterson Mill
With pine, oak, maple and poplar trees on their land north of Toronto ON Canada, Robin and Fawnda Pellett and their son Matthew are using their 10″ WPF mill to build a new house! Robin designed the home and along with his son Matt, they have cut down the trees, hauled them out of the [...]
Summer Dreams…
Scot Postle had dreams of spending the summer by the lake under cover of a new shelter house built with lumber cut from his Peterson ATS. When hurricane Ike blew through his home state Ohio last summer, it provided more than enough downed trees for Scot to begin his project. Scot and his family work [...]
Screw Propelled Vehicle
This fantastic video was sent to us by Robert Ritchie from Thorold, Ontario Canada which he found when browsing the OFN Community Forum. Robert responded to our request for ‘Cutting Comments‘ reader’s favourite photos. Although this is not a photo, we have never seen anything like it, so we wanted to show it to you [...]
It’s a Family Affair
The Sande family’s custom milling business, JS Sawmilling, is a family affair. Pictured are Jordin (3) and Jesse (5) , sitting on an impressive pile of kiln dried wood. Located two hours north of Seattle, in Maple Falls, Washington USA, millers Jeff and Jacki Sande cut lumber for many uses; old growth cedar siding, cedar [...]
Diesel Milling in Colombia
New Peterson owners in Colombia are very pleased with their purchase of two 10″ Diesel WPF mills. They have been milling hardwoods deep in the Colombian Jungle. Watch the short snippet video above of how they are using the milling in Colombia.
Milling in the Pasture
Recently, while going through some of the photos on our server, we came across this amazing photo of Rosie Decker, seen here, hard at work milling a big Oak tree on her dad’s farm near York, England. It’s a 200 acre farm, which farms cattle and arable. They also have a small woodland on the [...]
Training in Vanuatu
Our Sales Consultant Aaron Kalan, recently returned from his training trip in Vanuatu. We sent four Peterson 8” 27hp Kohler WPF sawmills to Vanuatu to four different islands – Efate, Espiritu Santo, Malakulu and Erromango. The chiefs of the four islands and Papongi Timbers Ltd organized the mills and set-up training for some of the [...]
The Peterson Way
Here at Peterson’s we like to really test our products before we sell them to our customers. We wanted to know how easy it would be to lift these two 220kg (485lbs) cants/flitches with our newest Peterson product the Cant Carrier. The ladies tried it out first and once we co-ordinate ourselves to lift all [...]
Swampy Milling
In the middle of the jungle, some villagers from Guapi are milling some local hardwood using their Peterson Winch Production Frame (WPF). Guapi’s jungle is very wet and swampy, so to stop the mill from sinking into the ground, the mill has been set up on a row of small trees that have been laid [...]
Milling Australian Burls
Our State Representative Jim Whitaker recently went to the Maleny Wood Show. While at the show he milled up a Blue Gum (Forest Red Gum) Burl with his Peterson Clip On Slabber. He salvaged the Burl from a tree that had been pushed over by a bulldozer about 100km from his home town in Queensland, [...]



