Services Offered by Jay Clarke Portable Sawmill

Portable Sawing

My mill is portable and fully hydraulic. All I need is a pile of logs and I can start milling, or if needed I can bring my tractor and logging winch.

I generally charge $0.55/bdft to mill softwood logs and $0.65-.75/bdft for hardwoods plus a reasonable setup fee, about $100 within 1 hour of South Deerfield.

Wide Bandsaw Milling

I offer portable bandsaw milling up to 62" wide. Pricing is about $0.85/bdft up to 46" cut width and $0.90-1.10/bdft up to 62" cut width.

I utilize my same LT40 sawmill except with an extendable head that is 19" wider than stock. For logs over 46", I have an additional extension for up to 62" cut width.

The beauty of this setup is I can easily swap between stock and wide widths, allowing me to handle all aspects of the job with one machine.

Planing

With my Logosol PH360 4-sided moulder/planer, I process your rough lumber into finished products.

Planing is $0.40-0.60/bdft.

S4S and T&G are generally $1.25-1.60/sqft and includes straight-line ripping. Please note I don't end trim or end match.

Additional Planing Services

I'm currently setting up a 54" by 104" capacity CNC router and will provide more details as I get to running it. I can flatten wide slabs and do carvings such as for signs.

I also have a planer attachment for my sawmill in the testing phases. It is capable of planing 24" wide and 20' long. It will handle anything from live edge slabs to beams and mantelpieces, basically anything over 2" thick that doesn't make sense to send through a conventional planer.

Chainsaw Milling

No matter how large your log, I can mill it with my Granberg chainsaw mill. With a cut capacity of 79", I can produce massive slabs from your logs.

I typically charge $1.50/bdft for chainsaw milling.

Bandsaw Blade Sharpening

I've been sharpening our bandmill blades for years and will gladly sharpen yours as well. I can sharpen most profiles of 7/8" and 1-1/8" spacing blades as well as 10 degree 3/4" spacing. It is typically $10/blade with metal damaged blades given an extra pass for $2-3 extra.
Ideally damaged blades will be sorted out as I only do spot inspections. Our in-house method is to grade the blades by severity of damage based on how the blade cut when removed. For example a blade that cuts straight but slow/choppy will clean up to passable in 2 grinding passes whereas a blade that dives immediately may not be salvageable to anything beyond chasing out metal in logs.