Bear Creek Hardwoods
This firm's office is in Earlham, PA, outside Iowa. It appears here because the Iowa forestry register lists it as working 1 Iowa counties. Worth asking how far they'll travel for a tract your size.
About Bear Creek Hardwoods
Bear Creek Hardwoods is a sawmill in Earlham, Iowa, run by Monty and Becky Button. It serves Dallas County. They mill logs you bring them or logs they provide, cutting to your specifications of length, width, thickness, quarter sawn or other. Their own words say the purpose is "to repurpose unwanted, dead, diseased or trees by storms into usable quality lumber." They run three saws, two Baker bandsaw mills and a Mobile Dimension Saw, so they can handle logs of different sizes. Services include milling and rough cut, plus kiln drying. Species mentioned include white oak and Shiplap Pine, the latter used on a 12,000 square foot wedding barn project. They note milled dimensions are "true dimensions," so a board called 2x4 comes out a true 2 inches by 4 inches, with extra thickness cut in to allow for shrinkage from kiln drying and planing. The business started in March of 2004 when the Buttons bought a Baker 3638D sawmill, after Monty milled a white oak tree into a dining room table and they got hooked. Becky began running the mill full-time in 2014, and the family has since added a larger Baker 3674D mill and brought on their children to help operate the mills. This fits a landowner who already has logs on hand, whether from a storm, a dead tree, or a cleared lot, and wants them milled to specific dimensions rather than sold as standing timber. From bearcreekhardwoods.com, read 10 October 2026.
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