Southside Lumber Co

About Southside Lumber Co

Southside Lumber Co is a sawmill and log buyer in Butler, Missouri, cutting custom lumber since 1945. They buy logs straight from landowners, loggers, and forestry professionals in Bates County and around Butler, and they run the mill themselves. They work in Missouri hardwoods: hickory, pecan, ash, walnut, red oak, and white oak. Logs they buy need to run 13 to 48 inches across the small end, and 8 feet 6 inches to 16 feet 6 inches long. Past buying logs, the mill also produces full dimension lumber, kiln dried and rough cut stock, decking, horse stall lumber, slabs, table tops, and more, and they'll cut logs you bring in yourself under their "Bring Your Own Logs" service. They offer lumber consulting too, if you are not sure what species or cut fits your project. They are members of the National Federation of Independent Businesses and the Missouri Forest Products Association. On their own log-buying page they describe the process plainly: "No load is too small or too large," and they say they aim to make it "quick, fair, and easy." This suits a landowner in Bates County or near Butler who has logs ready to sell or lumber to get custom cut, and who wants a local mill that also buys direct rather than a bigger operation set up for large timber sales only. From southsidelumberbutlermo.com, read 8 October 2026.

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