“Have all your firewood cut and split by the Fourth of July,” the old-timers say. That sounds good in theory, but in actual practice, we are doing well to get the wood cut and split a week before we ...

What starts as a routine log rescue turns into one of the most painful sawmill days yet when a massive sugar maple pushes the machine to the edge. Between giant crotch wood, bark inclusions, ambrosia, ...

Two oak logs destined to be burned are pulled from the firewood pile and given one last chance at the sawmill. Once they are cut into slabs, the hidden grain and natural character of the wood begin to ...