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Swingmill Blade Re-tipping and Sharpening – Portable Sawmills

Part 2 of a 5 part series covering all you need to know about swingmill blades – by Kerris Browne Circular swingmill blades perform similarly to those on fixed site...

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Swingmill Blade Maintenance – Portable Sawmills

Part 1 of a 5 part series covering all you need to know about swingmill blades – by Kerris Browne This issue’s focus: Blade Maintenance & Identification Have you heard...

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Junior Peterson Sawmill Field Test

“I am a part time contractor sawing 1-2 cube (400-850bft) a week on average, 1-2 days per week depending on what is happening out on the farm. I mainly cut...

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Timbersports Competitor and Sawmiller, Living Life to the Full

  During his first year as a timbersports competitor in 2003 while at a small college competition, Nathan met the love of his life Holly. Holly started competing in timbersports...

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Pacific Green: A Sustainable Revolution in Coconut Palm Timber

Coconut timber possesses unique qualities that set it apart from common timbers. It is exceptionally hard and durable, with its strength concentrated in the outer perimeter of the trunk. This...

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Kiwi farmer catches the sawdust bug

On a bright sunny day in December, sawdust flew through the air in a suburban area of Rotorua New Zealand, as Peterson Portable Sawmills put their new product the Junior...

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Giving the gift of sawdust this Christmas

    It was decided that not only would Ian be approached to test the mill, but that if he agreed and enjoyed operating it, the company would gift the...

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A Star Rises from the Sawdust

An interview with Marlena Martin, written by Kerris Browne We all see the attractive models used to promote machinery. But do those models actually work for the company? And have...

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“Peterson Sawmill is Truly an Environmental Mill”

  Recently the entire avenue of Aesculus Hippocastanums at the National Trust ‘Barrington Court’ had to be felled as it had bleeding canker. Mike took all the bottom butts and...

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Slabbing a Big Slice of History

Originally published in Newstimes, May 2012 Written by Dirk Perrefort Sawdust flew through the air at Halas Farm Market Friday, as master sawyer Dennis Hoover sliced thick, quartersawn slabs of...

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Sawmilling in Fiji – Korovatu & Skreds Manufacturing Project

Background of the Korovatu & Skreds Manufacturing project: This project was started in an effort to make the village self-supporting and generate money to improve their standard of living. Since...

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EcoMadera South America Sustainable Harvesting

Sustainable Harvesting Made Viable with Peterson Sawmill in Ecuador

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...
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