Guides
Guides for sawyers and log owners
Free, plain-English guides for every stage — choosing a mill, deciding if one's worth it, scaling a log before you cut it, and standing at your first log wondering what to do with it.
Pick where you are
- Your First Log: Deciding What to Cut (Learning to Saw · Part 1) — What an experienced sawyer sees before the blade moves — and how to see it on day one. For sawyers who already own a mill and are learning to saw.
- Choosing Your First Portable Sawmill — Why the cut matters more than the mill. For anyone about to buy their first mill.
- Is a Portable Sawmill Worth It? — The real payback math. For anyone still deciding whether to buy.
- What LogMaster Costs, Next to Everything Else at the Mill — LogMaster's price beside oil, blades, sawmills, tractors and trailers, with every price dated and sourced. For anyone weighing the price.
- Where a Log Goes — How long a log took to grow, how little of it becomes lumber, and what waste costs the tree. For anyone who wants to waste less.
- Log Scale Calculator — Doyle, Scribner Decimal C, and International ¼″ — side by side. For anyone with logs in front of them who wants the board feet.
Log Master how-to videos
Short screen-recorded walkthroughs of specific screens in Log Master — no reading required.
- Setting Up Your Products in Log Master — Building a product set: groups, sizes, wane rules, lengths, and prices.
- Exporting a Product Set — Saving a product set to a pack file, to back it up or share it.
- Importing a Product Set — Bringing a pack file's product set into Log Master.
Ready to cut?
Once you know where you stand, LogMaster turns the plan into the cut in front of you.