Indy Urban Hardwood Company
About Indy Urban Hardwood Company
Indy Urban Hardwood Company is a small urban sawmill and furniture shop at 3643 E Raymond Street in Indianapolis, Indiana. Brian Presnell started it in 2017 to deal with the dying ash trees in the city, and it has since milled hundreds of thousands of board feet of many species. It mills logs, kiln dries lumber, flattens slabs, stores wood, and builds solid wood furniture and tables. If you have a log, you bring it to the shop. The company does not cut down trees, remove stumps, or haul logs, and it no longer mills on site. It prefers logs 16 to 36 inches across and 8 to 12 feet long, and it cannot mill wood with decay. Milling costs a $150 setup fee plus $2 per board foot for wood you keep, with no charge for donated logs. Kiln drying is $2 per board foot. Wood left more than 30 days costs $1 per board foot per month. Start to finish runs eight months to a year. The shop calls the logs it takes "trash trees," meaning trees that would otherwise be mulched, burned, or dumped. It does not buy logs right now. It suits a Marion County landowner with an ash or other hardwood log who wants the lumber back, or wants furniture made from it, and is willing to deliver the log to the shop. It is not a good fit for someone hoping to sell standing timber or wanting a crew to take trees down. From indyurbanhardwood.com, read 9 November 2026.
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