Sandhill Sawmill
About Sandhill Sawmill
Sandhill Sawmill is a family-run sawmill in Donahue, Iowa. It saws logs to custom dimensions, sells live-edge slabs, and builds mantels, beams, and tables from the wood it cuts. It serves the Quad Cities and the small towns around Donahue, including Davenport, Bettendorf, Moline, Rock Island, and Walcott, on both sides of the river. The work covers Scott County. The business has operated since 2024. If you have a downed or salvaged tree, the mill will saw it into lumber, beams, or slabs. Its portable mill comes to your site for logs up to 24 inches by 17 feet, and its wide-cut slab mill handles slabs up to 72 inches by 12 feet. Logs can also be brought to the yard. The slabs it works with are walnut, maple, and character-rich burl. Every slab is air dried first, then vacuum kiln dried at an offsite facility. Visits are by appointment. As the business puts it, "Bring us a log or we'll come take a look." It suits a landowner near the Quad Cities who has a walnut, maple, or burl tree down and wants it milled into slabs or lumber close to home. From sandhillsawmill.com, read 8 November 2026.
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