The Wood Butcher
About The Wood Butcher
The Wood Butcher is a mobile sawmill business run out of Santa Cruz, California. Owner Nick Slobodian brings the saw to your logs rather than making you haul them in, working across the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California, with Fresno County among the areas served. The work itself is custom milling: turning rough logs into lumber and slabs on site, then leveling, planing, and sanding those slabs if you want them finished. The mill is built to handle logs that many yards turn away, and to get into tight spots, as they put it, "access hard to reach places from back yards to forest ravines." If you've just got a fallen tree and want it turned into something useful, that fits too, whether it is a single log or an oversized one nobody else wants to touch. Nick's background covers more than sawing. He's worked as a Permaculture Designer, Forester, Sawyer, and Agroforestry Specialist, with over 10 years in the forest and in community work before starting this business. Beyond milling, there is also a design and build side, Alta Vista Home & Garden, for turning the lumber into a finished project. This suits a landowner with a log or a stand of trees who wants the milling done where the wood is, not hauled off to a yard, and who has an oddly shaped or oversized log that a standard sawmill might refuse. From thewoodbutcher.net, read 4 October 2026.
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