Selling Timber in Washtenaw County, MI

Silver Spur Sawmill is a mill in Chelsea, Michigan. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.

Freier Forestry LLC runs a portable sawmill out of Whitmore Lake, Michigan. They bring the mill to you, milling logs on site into lumber cut to your specifications, then kiln drying it in one of two kilns that each hold up to 12,000 board feet. The drying runs about six weeks, pulling the wood down to roughly 8% moisture. Beyond sawing, they do custom sawing, lumber planing, grading, tree removal, and lot clearing. They've also added land development work: forestry mowing, vegetation control, mulching, brush cutting, trail and plot management, and land clearing and reclamation. They work mostly in walnut, oak, and other Michigan hardwoods, and they handle both residential yard trees and larger urban timber recovery jobs. One thing worth knowing if you're wary of being pushed into a sale: "We have never bought one stick of standing live timber." They do buy logs on occasion, but only from customers who have no use for their own wood. They serve Washtenaw, Livingston, Wayne, Lenawee, and Jackson counties, and say they'll talk with you even if you're outside that area. They've operated since 1991, and say they've saved over a million board feet of lumber in that time by reclaiming and reusing trees that would otherwise be chipped or landfilled. This fits a landowner with a tree or two worth saving, who wants it turned into usable boards rather than firewood or mulch, more than someone looking to sell standing timber outright. From freierforestry.com, read 8 October 2026.