Save Your Storm-Felled Trees with the Logosol Sawmill

”Slice up your storm-felled trees! It is done quickly and you preserve all the good qualities of the timber.” This advice comes from Logosol’s founder, Bengt-Olov Byström, who continues thinking small-scale after the hard winds of this winter.

New Logosol Sawmill M8: Highest Accuracy from the First Cut
New Logosol Sawmill Gives Further Possibilities

Sawn and Planed with Logosol: The World’s First Wooden Flooring with Double Eco-Labelling

800 million people live in and of the forest. Many are poor and would get a better life if their commodities and work were valued higher.
Part of a solution was presented this summer in a one thousand year old church ruin: doubly eco-labelled wooden flooring, produced in southern Chile with equipment from Logosol.

New Logosol Sawmill M8: Highest Accuracy from the First Cut

Rowing Boat with Traditions

Boat building has ancient traditions. Lars Wigren belongs to the growing number that carries the traditions on with the help of an own sawmill.

Building Wooden Boats in the Middle of Stockholm

New Logosol Sawmill M8: Highest Accuracy from the First Cut

The Logosol Sawmill M8 is the new model of the world’s most sold sawmill.
”We collected feedback from Logosol Sawmill owners all over the world,” says the product manager Mattias Byström at Logosol’s headquarters in Sweden.

New Logosol Sawmill Gives Further Possibilities

The Story of the Unplugged Sawmill

This year it is the tenth anniversary of the Logosol Sawmill model 7. 
Logosol celebrates this by taking the next step in development, the M8. But what happened on the way here?

New Logosol Sawmill M8: Highest Accuracy from the First Cut

New Logosol Sawmill Gives Further Possibilities

For the first time in ten years, the wood-processing company Logosol presents a new Logosol Sawmill. The model passes under the name of M8 and includes a number of new modifications. Comfort and performance have been further raised. A new design gives the small sawyer more possibilities for both efficiency and job satisfaction.

Sauna Panelling of Spalted and Oiled Alder

Arne Larsson is a man of actions. He seldom regrets anything. Except when he a couple of years ago, cut up a large quantity of alder into firewood.
”Alder is the most beautiful sort of wood in the Swedish forests,” says Arne, who recently built a sauna, panelled with spalted and oiled alder.

New Planer with Unique Performance

Just in time for the planing season, Logosol introduces a completely new machine, which combines simplicity with larger size. To those who are already acquainted with the Logosol range of products this is a long-awaited big brother to the popular Logosol SH230, that was introduced more than ten years ago.

Wood planer adds value to your lumber

Building Wooden Boats in the Middle of Stockholm

What will a boat builder do when he cannot obtain mahogany that is wide enough? He takes his sawmill and goes to the woods.
”In the Swedish woods there are several interesting sorts of wood, like oak, elm and ash,” says Johan Nilsson, one of three boat builders behind the company Båthantverkarna (‘The Boat Craftsmen’ in English) in Stockholm.

Wood planer adds value to your lumber

After investing in a sawmill the couple bought a Soloplaner. "A sawmill without a planer, it's like a computer without a printer," says Ronny Karlsson.

- A really good sawmill

John Haag in Sweden has found his niche in small-scale wood processing. With his two sawmills he started a log home factory. His band sawmill can handle the rough logs, the portable sawmill runs the log house molder.

Found better saw blades

Found true joy in sawmilling

With his own sawmill, Gerard Saulnier can finally realize his dreams: making logs from the trees growing on the family estate.

Laks in Tanzania saved the forest

Eight Laks saws turned a wrecked pine plantation into profitable forestry with record-low investment costs. The alternative would have been to burn down the whole forest plantation.

“Leaving a forest to take care of itself is not good environmentalism”

Stay sharp with HSS Sawblades

A new bimetallic blade with HSS teeth has been developed by Hakansson Sawblades. We visited the company and met CEO Olle Bergren for an interview.

HSS, hard metal, groove knives?
Found better saw blades

Sawmill shed the first project

A neat sawmill shed was the first project when the family invested in a portable sawmill with log house molder.
"Here we can produce timber all winter, "says Donald Oberg.

Using two Log house Molders
From forest to timber house

Building moose-shaped towers

”It takes hardly any time at all to saw and the results are good,” says Michael Högdahl, who makes shooting tower construction kits using a bandsaw on a Logosol sawmill. One of the shooting towers is disguised - as a moose!

Dry Wood for Woodworking

Air-drying works well if you are going to use the timber to build a house. But you can’t rely on the spring winds to dry it enough for use in furniture.
”It’s the biology that means furniture timber has to be dried artificially,” says Svante Larsson, who together with Leif Mattsson came up with the Sauno wood kiln.

Artwork in different woods

Klaus Kralovec is an artist who has chosen to work in wood. By gluing together different types of woods into blocks and then plane and process the material, he creates beautiful designs and unique products. In his workshop stands a four-sided planer/molder.

Creating art from elm
Furniture from city trees

Using two Log house Molders

France is a country built from stone, brick and, in recent years, concrete. Raymond Herberteau intends to change all that. He may well be a mayor, but he’s going to achieve this change using his own sawmill.

Old coal mine became sawmill

Maggie and Jim Birley started a sawmill more or less by chance. They bought a disused coal mine in order to build a house. The result was Scottish Wood, a growing company with nine employees.

PH260 at the Heart of a “Green” Company
Making money on planer shavings

Cutting oak with Big Mill System

How do you cut an oak log that is one meter in diameter and weighs nearly 2 tons? We used the Big Mill System - see pictures from the big cut!

Planing raw oak is no problem!

From forest to timber house

Alister Lewis builds full timber houses according to customer requirements, right from the cutting of logs. He builds two houses a year, which is enough to keep his company going.
 "I've never advertised, yet I'm fully booked up," he says.

Frame saw with high capacity
How thin can a board be?

Taking over the family farm

Arwyn’s son Wyn had left the farm to study. A sawmill and a planer brought him back. The family has lived at Blaen Cwm Farm since at least the 17th century, thanks to a forward-looking investment in timber processing, the farm will continue to remain in the Jones family.

How thin can a board be?

Eight millimetre. The answer comes from frame saw-owner Stig Johansson. He has succeeded with something that few others manage on a large scale, sawing just eight millimetres in thickness in order to produce ‘spacers’. These are used to stack several levels of goods on Euro pallet.

Frame saw with high capacity

Chainsaw wood sculptor

Concern for trees turned James Shelliker into a full-time tree carver. With his chainsaws and a Logosol portable sawmill he creates popular sculptures.

Creating art from elm
Furniture from city trees

Found better saw blades

“The new Logosol Ripper 37 saw blade lasts much longer than the original Wood-Mizer blade.”, says Bo Eriksson who runs a construction company.

Wooden bridge in mythical forest

After the Crown, the National Trust is the biggest forest owner in the UK. The aim of the Trust is to preserve places of historical interest and natural beauty. One of the tools it uses to do this is a portable swmill.

Portable sawmill in family forest

Buying a woodland property in the popular English Lake District should be an impossibility. After all, it’s one of the UK’s most visited tourist destinations.
”Jane comes from the area and our neighbours are all her relations,” says John Cushnie, lifting an oak log onto his portable sawmill.

House creates time for family
Built a timber house for his wife

New website for woodworkers

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Furniture from city trees

Anton Alvarez borrowed a portable sawmill to complete his project "furniture from city park trees". Here you can find his wood working plans for free!

Don’t choose impregnated wood if possible
Build a bench - woodworking plan

Mouldings for the Royal Court

If Denmark’s Queen Margarethe were to direct her gaze upwards in Amalienborg Castle in Copenhagen, she would see exquisitely designed and hand gilded cornices. These were produced by Pål Davidsson in Sweden, using a PH260 four-sided planer/moulder.

Sawmill at the Castle
Sawmill for a Queen

Family floor in hickory lumber

A beautiful floor of hickory was the result when Charlie Griffin and his family decided to complete the floor they started for over 28 years ago.

HSS, hard metal, groove knives?
Real hardwood flooring

Mouldings and panels

When the family moved back to Sweden ten years ago, Janne realised that it would be possible to live from the forest. He didn’t have any experience, however, and had never even used a chainsaw.

Professional after the storm
Making money on planer shavings

Build your own Wooden Hot Tub

Here you find the kit and the instructions you need! The Outdoor Hot Tub Kit includes hardware, heater, and instructions for building your own wooden hot tub. You can download free woodworking plan directly!

Build a bench - woodworking plan

A rough sawn wood surface

What is the advantage of using a chain sawmill compared to other types of sawmill? A sawing surface to surpass all others! ”The Logosol chain sawmill gives a much smoother surface than other types of sawmill,” says Mattias Byström, during renovation of his summer cottage.

House creates time for family

It is possible to create a better life for oneself in a way that also cuts costs and creates more time for family? Magnus Hjorth and Malin Wallinlind were successful at doing just this. The way there involved their own sawmill, salvage items, and dedicated effort.

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