About Us

Scott bought his first sawmill in 1989 with a loan from his Grandmother.  It was a WoodMizer LT30 with manual log handling and gasoline engine.  It could only cut about 2000 bd. Ft. of lumber in an eight hour day and was a lot of work since all log handling was via manual operation.  Pricing at the time was $.14 per board ft. and increased to $.16 if he traveled more than 30 miles from home. This mill was completely paid for in 9 months.

The next mill purchased was the LT40 with hydraulic log handling.  It was a dream to run as it had an operator seat instead of walking back and forth as well as hydraulic log lifting and hydraulic clamping.  The most this mill could produce in an eight hour day was about 4000 bd. Ft.

As the woodcutting business grew a solar kiln was added.  The concept was good but our location was poor as we were living in Ohio and many days were overcast, especially in the winter.  After making back the investment on the kiln it was sold.  Future plans are to add a vacuum kiln which would be able to dry 1” boards to an 8% moisture content in about a week. 

In 1992, with everything paid for, Scott decided he wanted to become an airline pilot and moved to Texas for training and sold the LT40.  After spending two years in Texas Scott landed a job flying a puddle jumper for Continental Express.  Six weeks after being hired he was furloughed as Continental was winding down Continental Lite and had too many pilots.  Scott took a job with an excavation company and was hired at another puddle jumper outfit, Northwest Airlink.  This job had Scott and family move to Joplin, Mo and then Hernando, MS.  During the next six years Scott flew for Northwest Airlink but never made the jump to a major airline. 

After moving to Texas from Mississippi in 2001, Scott was able to buy a dream property in southwest Fannin County.  During his time there he started to acquire the pieces of equipment that would allow him to vertically integrate a sawmill business, from the harvesting of timber to the final drying and finishing.  Unfortunately life got in the way (divorce) and the plans had to be placed on hold.

During the next 22 years Scott has flown corporate jets for several different companies.  As retirement from flying gets close, the enjoyment of turning logs into lumber has once again become a reality.  A new sawmill was ordered in 2021 but due to the worn out “supply chain issues” delivery was not until mid 2023.  This new mill is the largest offered by Woodmizer and has an amazing rate of production and accuracy with the Accuset setworks.  The older mills depended on a measuring tape attached to the sawmill mast and was hard to achieve perfectly sized lumber.  With Accuset, any increment is easily repeatable so uniformity is achieved. 

As Scott is still working as a corporate pilot, scheduling cannot be guaranteed far in advance, but as a service professional, we do our best to accommodate most any schedule.