Finger Lakes Wood Products

About Finger Lakes Wood Products

Finger Lakes Wood Products is a sawmill in Dolgeville, New York, that also does woodworking and retail. They work with "a network of more than 50 local loggers" to source timber from around the region, and most of what they mill comes from within an hour's drive of Dolgeville. The mill cuts pine and ash, and also produces hardwood live edge slabs. It's a family operation: Bucky, who holds a forest management degree from Paul Smith College and worked as a log buyer and sawmill supervisor at Rawlings, runs the day-to-day work at the mill with his wife Rachel, while Brendt handles the finances. They took over the business, formerly Buryford Farms, in 2021. For landowners in Herkimer County, this is a place to sell logs to rather than a service that comes out to manage or harvest your woods. Their own words sum up what they're after: "you're using local lumber that supports the legacy of logging, milling, and forestry in the Adirondacks region." If you've already got logs cut or are deciding who to sell standing timber to, it's worth a call to 315-429-9040 to ask what they're buying and how they handle it. This fits a landowner who wants their wood to stay local and end up with a small sawmill family that grew up logging and milling in the Adirondacks, rather than a larger outside buyer. From fingerlakeswoodproducts.com, read 11 October 2026.

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