Portable Sawmill News and Articles
Portable sawmill news including articles from a variety of worldwide publications, as well as stories researched and written by members of the Peterson team. In this section of our website, we’ve also included business and general milling articles to give you more insight into the industry.
It pays to do your research when contemplating a sawmill purchase. Read portable sawmill news articles from every brand you’re looking into, discover what that brand’s operators say about their investment and find out about their favourite features.
Included in this section are blog posts from Peterson’s CEO, Kerris Browne (nee Peterson) who lets the reader into her life as the ‘boss lady’ of a majority male led industry, show’s the reader around her farm, introduces you to her family and more. Also included are results from Petersons’ entries into The Great Portable Sawmill Shootout over recent years, it’s worth checking out. Happy reading!
Portable sawmill opens the door to affordable housing
Panapa Ehau is a co-founder and director of Hikurangi Enterprises Ltd, a group of innovative entities dedicated to regional economic…
Light earth building: A natural way to build the future
Like many other countries in the world, New Zealand has a huge housing problem. While successive governments have been trying…
First worldwide JP owner is still enjoying his hobby mill | 2020 Update
Ted Isaacs had no previous experience with any type of sawmill. But that didn’t stop this old timer being a…
Mobile sawmill ‘key to housing’
Investment in a portable sawmill by a New Zealand development company will open doors to better, more affordable housing. Hikurangi…
Peterson create their own Portable Sawmill Demonstration Days
The Junior Peterson Sawmill sanding a slab with its optional Sanding Kit In the more than 30 years that Peterson Portable…
Survey: A proposed NZ industry association for specialty timbers and small-scale sawmillers
If you are living in New Zealand and own or operate a small (portable) sawmill or use a contract sawmiller,…
An Austrian hobby sawmiller following his dreams in Nova Scotia
Horst Puff had been managing a BP gas station on an Austrian Autobahn for some time when in 2009, he…
Milling in Nepal: a post-disaster response
Written by Bikram Rai, Senior Operations Manager – Samaritan’s Purse A powerful earthquake of 7.8 magnitude struck Nepal on April…
A versatile mill for a versatile builder
The Ozark National Forest spans 1.2 million acres and is located predominantly in the Ozark Mountains in northern Arkansas, USA.…
When we can’t sell our logs, New Zealand can produce timber
Originally published in New Zealand Logger magazine April 2020 Written by Hayley Leibowitz The little sawmill that could is holding its…
