Selling Timber in Boone County, IA

Breezy Hill Sawmill is a small family owned sawmill in Boone, Iowa, operating since 2014. This is not a timber buyer or a logging outfit. If you have your own logs, they will cut them for you on a Woodmizer LT15 Wide band sawmill, handling logs up to 17 feet long and 36 inches across. They charge $90 per hour plus $30 per blade used, and most customers haul their own logs in on a trailer, though they may be able to help if you can't move yours. They cut "native hard woods" and sell kiln dried lumber and slabs from that work, drying wood slowly by air first and then finishing it in their own solar kiln. Their regular work includes a lot of urban trees salvaged from Ames and Iowa State University, alongside logs customers bring them. Turnaround depends on the size of the log and the time of year. There is no stated minimum size for a job. Going by the smallest piece they mention cutting, they have handled logs as small as 1 foot long and 6 inches in diameter, so this is not an operation built around big volume. They work by appointment at their address on X Ave in Boone. This fits a landowner who already has logs down, maybe a handful of trees cleared or salvaged, and just wants them sawn into lumber or slabs rather than sold standing. From breezyhillsawmill.com, read 10 October 2026.