Portable Sawmill

Portable Sawmill
and Mobile Milling Service

0845 4660284

Arborworks Ltd use a cleverly designed portable timber mill, capable of versatile, heavy duty use. It is ideal for salvaging downed timber in hard to reach places with limited access, particularly where space is at a premium.

Fitted with a 60" chainsaw bar and specialised ripping chain to cut smoothly along the grain, it can convert large limbs and fallen tree trunks up to 56" in diameter into sawn timber slabs or dimensional timber from 1/2" to 12". The Mill body clamps securely to the chain saw bar and adjustments for thickness and width of timber can be made in seconds.

It is capable of cutting accurately where the tree falls, ideal for limited access, where extraction may not be possible.

For the domestic user cutting wood in situ saves on transport costs to a static lumber yard.

Arborworks Ltd offer a mobile sawmill service to both domestic and commercial premises. The mill can either be hired with a skilled operator to plank timber for your own use, or depending on the variety and quality of the wood Arborworks Ltd may negotiate to puchase the milled timber, offsetting this against the cost of removal.

Arborworks Ltd also sell seasoned, processed timber in planks or slabs. Particular requirements may be processed to order.

Oak Beams are a favourite speciality!

Please contact Arborworks Ltd for details of current stock and prices.

Why use a Mobile Sawmill?
The usual practice in tree surgery is to fell and clear as safely, quickly and tidily as possible. This sometimes results in the loss of valuable timber, which may be simply ringed up for splitting into firewood, sent for green waste recycling or even end up in landfill!

Using the Mobile Sawmill it may be possible to save some of this valuable and beautiful wood, which could be hundreds of years old, by planking the felled tree in situ and converting what would otherwise be waste into usable timber.

This furthers the aim of Arborworks Ltd to build on its ethic of environmental awareness by recycling as far as possible.

The Portable Chainsaw Mill at Work!

Easy to use in a tight space A slab is lifted, ready for stacking
In the compact back garden of a town house this Oak trunk is being cut into planks, to be stacked and seasoned.

Felled trunk being readied for milling The mill is easily operated by one person
You can see the limbs of this Oak in the background, already cut into sections for removal. The trunk is being cut into thick slabs for beams in situ.

The first cut is the fiddliest! The grain revealed
This piece of Walnut was destined for firewood! See how the beautiful grain has been revealed through the cut.