Wood-Mizer has always known that its success was not only dependant on a quality product but also communicating truthfully and professionally with our customers. If you have any doubts about the Wood-Mizer design, please consider these facts.

Wood-Mizer’s professional sawmill models feature a cantilever head which is supported by just one beam and open on the other side. This is by design. The Wood-Mizer cantilever head is solid, rugged, accurate, and gives more portability and accessibility than any other design.

Since 1982, Wood-Mizer has sold more than 50,000 sawmills around the world that have cut billions of board feet of lumber. This massive audience can praise the reliability and stability of the cantilever design and its ease of use and productivity.

Here’s why:

Its Rock-solid dependability
Check out the thick tube steel that makes up the Wood-Mizer sawmill and how the head is locked vertically in place by running down two rails welded to the mono-rail beam. The solid design is a result of superior engineering and ingenuity. When the blade bites into the log, the cantilever head stays parallel to the bed, which results in straight boards every time. Our unique, patented design has been cutting straight boards for more than a quarter of a century.

It’s the Most Portable ‘Portable’ Sawmill! – Since the cantilever sawmill head is always parallel to the bed, a rough level is all that’s needed, so you can be sawing before the competition can. No wasting valuable time trying to get the bed level. The cantilever and mono-rail design allows the mill to be set up and packed up in just a few minutes, making Wood-Mizer mills the most portable mills available. 

Best sawmill for offloading and odd logs - Wood-Mizer has a trapezoid-shape bed that allows for easy off-bearing, a design impossible with a 4 post head. Also, the open-ended side provides unobstructed access for odd shaped logs, eliminating the need for chainsaw trimming, so operators and off-bearers both benefit from the Wood-Mizer design.

The Best use of materials for a rock-solid mill -
Wood-Mizer professional sawmills are designed to handle 36” diameter logs up to 21’ long with heavy steel construction, but with less overall sawmill weight. The excess weight of a 4 post mill is unnecessary on Wood-Mizer sawmills.  This weight saving design cannot be matched by any other company unless they sacrifice the quality of their steel. Wood-Mizer’s portable sawmills are easier to handle and cheaper to pull around the highway; without sacrificing quality or durability.

Don’t take our word for it!  Check out these links to real sawyers discussing Wood-Mizer’s designs and quality. A newbie asks sawyers about Wood-Mizer’s design, read here.  A guy is having a problem with his Wood-Mizer mill: Read on by clicking here to find out what experienced sawyers said. What’s the best sawmill out there? Sawyers give their answers here.  A sawyer asks other sawyers, ‘Are attacks on Wood-Mizer true?’ Read here.

 

Here are some things to watch out for as you look for a sawmill. They will help you navigate some of the misinformation out there. 

Watch out for:

- Blanket statements such as, "The cantilever head is wobbly." The truth is, that Wood-Mizer’s cantilever design has worked for over 50,000 portable and industrial customers for the last 30 years. If someone is telling you that the cantilever head is ‘wobbly’, they are just trying to distract you from the benefits of the cantilever head design. Wavy lumber is made the same way on every portable band sawmill: dull blades.

- Marketing material and salesmen that continually criticize their competitors with false or misleading statements. Their claims are rarely the whole story. Check with the criticized company and their customers, who will set the record straight.

- Video that has been sped up of sawmills and their operation, companies can do this to avoid showing how inefficient a mill is.

- Learn to distinguish the difference between truly portable sawmills and just transportable sawmills. Wood-Mizer sawmills, due to their monorail bed design, can be towed to a location and sawing in minutes in the same terrain that twin-rail sawmills would have to be painstakingly leveled, and supported by boards. It is true that twin-rail sawmills are transportable, but they are not portable in the way that Wood-Mizer mills invented portable!


-  If a company is not willing to hold a high moral sales standard, how can they be trusted in their promises to their customers?