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!
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…
Homesteading is a lifestyle choice for American sawmiller
Homesteading is the act (and often, art) of creating a productive and self-sufficient home, and it has made Robert Wells…
United Against COVID-19
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is the bomb! She has taken the virus by the horns and locked the…
Portable sawmill solves supply issue on remote island
What do you do when you have a pile of logs? You get a portable sawmill and turn it into…
Slabber Mill Sawmill & Woodlot magazine article
Originally published in Independent Sawmill & Woodlot Management Magazine, April 2016 Written by Dave Boyt The trick in operating a…
Rotorua sawmill manufacturer supports student project
When 17 year old Hayden Swears reached out to Rotorua manufacturers, Peterson Portable Sawmills for help with a woodworking project…
A real Kiwi bloke’s 30 years of sawmill design and practical know-how
Many people in the portable sawmill community know Chris Browne or have at least heard of him. Born and bred…
Top 10 Tips for Reusing Sawdust
There are two byproducts of portable sawmilling: firewood (offcuts) and sawdust. Firewood is highly sought after so finding someone to…
Celebrating 30 Years of service across the world
Originally published in Australian Forests & Timber News, September 2019. Written by Keith Smiley Our Kiwi brothers are a surprising…
Two mills working in tandem
Guy Jackson is a custom sawmiller and a maker. A maker of large outdoor/indoor tables, bench tops, bed frames… and…
