Timber Buyers & Forestry Professionals in Alto, MI

Williamson Woodworks LLC is an urban sawmill based in SE Grand Rapids, Michigan, in Kent County. It saws logs from city trees into lumber and makes furniture and building materials from that wood. You can have the whole job done from tree to finished piece, or stop at the sawing if that is all you need. The mill can come to your property with its portable sawmill, charged at $100 an hour with no minimum charge. Or you can drop logs off at its facility for milling at the same hourly rate, with no setup fee. Urban logs often hold nails, bolts, and screws that dull blades, so there is a $25 blade fee when metal is found. It also dries wood in a solar kiln at $1 per board foot per inch, which takes 5 to 8 weeks, though kiln space is limited. Wood processing consultation is $60 an hour, and it issues certificates of age and species for finished pieces. The business has more than a decade of urban sawmilling behind it. In its own words, "Every tree we mill would otherwise become waste." This suits a Grand Rapids landowner who has urban trees down and wants lumber or furniture back out of them, not a sale of standing timber. From williamsonwoodworks.com, read 12 November 2026.