Why Norwood?
In a nutshell: Innovation, Quality & Integrity.
No other company has more portable sawmill patents than Norwood – period. And every Norwood is quality-built in the USA & Canada. They’re designed, and built, to mill millions of board feet reliably and smoothly. Dollar for dollar, you won’t find any portable sawmill that’s more productive, or easy-to-use, than a Norwood.
Norwood Portable Sawmills – brand-name reputation you can trust.
More Patents than All Other Portable Sawmill Companies Combined
Norwood Sawmills holds over 50 patents in sawmilling, that make it simpler and more efficient for your milling, like our Auto Locking Sawhead. All of our competitors combined do not hold this many patents. Learn more about Norwood's innovation by watching the video below.
Norwood Is Built to Work
Original Norwood mills from 1993, over 25 years ago, are still running strong! Many of which are operating two 8-hour shifts a day, milling even the hardest exotic hardwoods (that are more than 3 X harder than American hardwoods) in Africa, South America and Australia.
Log Deck Proven to Support 10,000 lbs
The LumberPro uses twin double-plated debossed commercial-grade steel rails in its wide-track log deck. Debossed steel is much stronger and more rigid than flat, unformed steel. Combined with the boxed front & rear-end frames, this log deck gives you greater strength, stiffness, lighter weight, and ultimately greater structural integrity.
But all those manufacturing details don't make the point clearly enough. So, we removed all the supports from the LumberPro's log deck. Then we loaded a whopping 10,000 pounds of logs in the middle.... YAWN!! Nothing happened.
4 Post Carriage Frame Ensures Even, Accurate Milling
Norwood’s cutting head is designed to eliminate any bounce or sag that you can experience on less rugged sawmills.
The fully supported 4-post design is fortified with structurally engineered reinforced 2” X 5” precision-extruded vertical guides, and heavy gauge 2 ½ structural tubular steel rear vertical mounts & front horizontal stabilizer bar.
This means the LumberPro manages higher load inputs for better milling with more accuracy & control.
Built in America
Every component of every Norwood sawmill is made of top-quality steel by highly-skilled operators with cutting-edge fabrication and machining technologies. Norwood sawmills are designed and manufactured so that you will be able to rely on yours for the rest of your life.
Norwood is Built to Last
The fact that many Norwood customers continue to use earlier-model equipment like the LumberMate 2000, the LumberMate MK1-MK4 and the LumberLite LL24 is testament to the quality and durability of our portable sawmills. And we do certainly continue to support those valued customers with quality parts and accessories to keep their sawmills in fine working order or to expand their capabilities for larger projects.
Commercial-Grade Powder-Coat
Industrial-grade powder-coating protects your investment better, and longer, than old-fashioned spray-paint, which chips, scratches and rusts out in no time. Sure, it costs a lot more to powder-coat steel. In fact, other companies choose to spray-paint their sawmills to save costs and make more money.
You want a sawmill that’s going to work hard, and look good for years to come. That’s why Norwood finishes every critical component on your portable sawmill with the very best powder-coating money can buy.
The Best Value for Your Hard-Earned Dollar
Norwood has the only sawmill that can take you from manual to hydraulic whenever you’re ready. Even Norwood’s manual-only models have more optional attachments and time-saving upgrades than any other brand.
At Norwood, VALUE is based on five important pillars
Norwood Sawmills: Proven History
Working on the land, and in the forest, is more than a way of life ... It's a passion shared from one generation to the next. It's who we are and what we become.
You want a sawmill built tough enough to work as hard for the next generation as it will for you. Thousands of Norwood sawmills have survived gruelling conditions far worse than anything you will ever ask your sawmill to endure. From the Norwood testing center, to harsh real-world trials from Alaska’s frontier to Africa’s sub-Saharan hardwoods, it's nothing but brutal.
The reason we do this is simple: it's all about delivering a sawmill that exceeds your expectations - a sawmill that sets industry benchmarks and delivers the kind of reliability and capability that stands the test of time.
You want a portable sawmill backed by a brand-name company that knows milling & knows how to build solid, dependable, accurate equipment.
Norwood fits the bill –
- Norwood’s been building sawmills for 25 years.
- Norwood sawmills are hard at work in over 100 countries worldwide.
- Over 35,000 Norwood sawmills have cut millions of valuable board feet.
Norwood was the very first company to develop affordable personal bandmills and is the only company to focus entirely on this class of sawmills. Since Norwood launched the first LumberMate, other companies followed suit, selling their own lines of personal band sawmills, but only as an afterthought to their main focus on super-sized, and super-expensive, hydraulic mills.
Norwood lives and breathes personal, portable sawmills – Every Norwood team member, from the engineers to the customer-service, devote 100% of their time and energy to making sure you’re proud to be a Norwood owner.
Learn more about the Norwood story here!
