Pops Barn

About Pops Barn

Pops Barn is a working sawmill and slab yard in Byram Township, Sussex County, New Jersey, run on a 12-acre compound with a pole barn, millhouse and kiln container on site. It mills, dries, flattens and builds, start to finish, and most of what it sells is slabs cut from its own logs. If you've got standing timber or a log on the ground, this is a place that will take it. "Got a tree down? We take logs," and they'll run it on the Norwood HD36 bandsaw or the Lucas slabber, which opens pieces up to 76 inches wide, wider than most mills can handle. Species they work in include black walnut, white oak, red oak, cherry, ambrosia maple, shagbark hickory, hard and soft maple, red elm, poplar, eastern red cedar, black locust, white ash, beech, birch and pitch pine. Custom milling is priced by the job, with a call first before you drive out, since it's a working yard and not a retail counter: "Call or text before you drive out. It's a sawmill, not a store with a greeter." After milling, wood can go into the iDry AIR kiln, then get flattened and surfaced, or go further into finished pieces, tables, mantels, beams, CNC signs and carving, all done on site without farming work out. Pops Barn serves Sussex County directly, with its regular pickup and delivery reach covering Sussex, Morris, Warren, Passaic, Bergen, Essex and Hunterdon counties, plus curbside delivery into North Jersey and New York City. Founder Bob Gockeler runs it as a Norwood sawmill ambassador, and the business has operated since 2023. This suits a landowner near Sussex County who wants their own log milled into something they'll actually use or sell, not just a stumpage check. From pops-barn.com, read 10 October 2026.

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