Mills
Sawmills and pulp mills purchase harvested timber. Some mills have in-house timber buying divisions, letting landowners sell direct — cutting out the middleman.
18 listings · Read: Selling Timber Directly to a Mill
Quick answer
There are 18 mills listed in North Dakota across 5 counties. Listings come from the North Dakota forestry register and each one shows the counties it covers and the species it handles. TimberClear has not vetted, verified or endorsed any of them.
701 Sawmill is a custom milling business in Mandan, North Dakota, on County Road 139. It has operated since 2016. This is a sawmill set up to cut your own logs for you, not a standing timber buyer. You bring the logs and they custom mill them to your size and finish, whether that's rough-cut lumber for a building project or live edge slabs for furniture, countertops, or mantels. They work in black walnut and other locally milled hardwoods. The live edge slabs get cut to various thicknesses and widths, kiln dried down to 8 percent moisture, then run through the planer to flatten them. They also "buy high end logs in a wide variety of species" if you'd rather sell than have your wood milled. Work is "Appointment only," so you'd call ahead to set up a visit to the mill. They serve customers across North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana, with Morton County named as an area they cover. Past projects shown include a 16-foot black walnut live edge table, a kitchen island countertop, open shelving, a desk, and table tops built for a local brewery, all cut from logs on site. This fits a landowner with black walnut or other hardwood logs who wants those specific logs turned into slabs or lumber, or who has high-end logs to sell outright, rather than someone looking for a full timber harvest or forestry advice on standing acreage. From 701sawmill.com, read 10 October 2026.
Heartwood Grains LLC is a sawmill and small woodworking shop in Belfield, North Dakota, run by owner Corey Simnioniw. The business says its specialty is lumber that's "logged, milled, kiln dried, and finished per request." They serve Billings County. Most of their wood comes from deadfall and live trees downed by storms in the local area, in species like ash, elm, olive, spruce, pine, juniper (cedar), and cottonwood. They'll also work with wood from elsewhere, including a log off your own place, "especially if it helps you produce something handmade using a log from your own place." Their mill handles logs up to 24 inches across and 16 feet long. Once milled, boards can go through their kiln, which runs up to 4,000 board feet per load, with drying settings adjusted for the wood type and moisture. From there they do custom finish work, turning the lumber into furnishings, benches, shelves, and similar pieces built from the same wood. This fits a landowner who has a tree, a storm-downed log, or a small batch of logs they want turned into something to keep, rather than a stand of timber to sell as it stands. If what you want is your own wood milled, dried, and finished into a usable piece, Heartwood Grains LLC is built for that kind of job, not for buying standing timber off larger acreage. From heartwoodgrains.com, read 10 October 2026.
McStash Mills is a sawmill in Hillsboro, North Dakota. It serves Traill county, and it's a custom milling operation, not a timber buyer, so this is the place to call once your trees are already down and you want them cut into lumber. They work in cottonwood and basswood, and with their mill they "can now cut up to a 39 in round log and 38 in wide slabs." Their services cover custom milling, custom tables made from live edge slabs and quartered logs, and axe throwing target boards. They describe themselves as "a small family run sawmill based out of our homestead in Hillsboro ND." There's no stated acreage minimum, but given the kind of work shown, this looks suited to a landowner with a log or two to mill rather than a standing timber sale. If you've got downed trees, salvage logs, or slabs you want turned into something useful, this is the kind of outfit that handles that, not one that walks your woods and makes an offer on standing timber. From mcstashmills.com, read 10 October 2026.
Fried's Saw Mill Inc is a logging contractor in Mandan, North Dakota. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Tyler's Tree Service is a tree care business in West Fargo, North Dakota. It is a local, family-owned company, part of the Home Builders Association, and it has operated since 2012. Most of its work is tree care: tree removal, tree pruning, stump grinding, land clearing and site prep, shelterbelt removal, and forestry mulching. Clean-up is part of the job, and its own line for the work is "No stick left behind." Wood is the other side of the business. Tyler's Tree Service sells hardwood in bulk for delivery or pickup, and it sells firewood. It also custom mills wood for clients' projects, with cuts on boards and timber, and it can mill wood with a live edge for a home or business. The species it works with are hardwood and blue spruce. It works in and around West Fargo and across the Fargo-Moorhead area, in Cass County. To start a job, you fill out the online form and it sends a free estimate. It takes jobs of any size, including ones other tree companies have turned down. It suits a West Fargo or Fargo-Moorhead landowner who has trees to take down or a lot to clear, and who wants the wood milled into boards or bought as hardwood in bulk. From tylerscut.com, read 3 November 2026.
Kleppe Forest Products LLC is a mill. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Midwest Millworx is a mill in Burleigh County, North Dakota. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. It is also listed as a timber buyer. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Timber Trails Sawmill is a mill. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Legge's Portable Milling is a mill in Valley City, North Dakota. It appears in the North Dakota Forest Service, North Dakota Sawmill Directory (2014-2015). It is recorded as a firewood and rough lumber operation. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Neil Tangen is a mill in Kathryn, North Dakota. It appears in the North Dakota Forest Service, North Dakota Sawmill Directory (2014-2015). It is recorded as a firewood and rough lumber operation. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Moen Millworks is a mill in Page, North Dakota. It appears in the North Dakota Forest Service, North Dakota Sawmill Directory (2014-2015). It is recorded as a firewood, rough lumber, dressed lumber and pallet cants & parts operation. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Tilmer Jacobson is a mill in Bowbells, North Dakota. It appears in the North Dakota Forest Service, North Dakota Sawmill Directory (2014-2015). It is recorded as a rough lumber operation. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Voigt Lumber & Logging is a mill in Mandan, North Dakota. It appears in the North Dakota Forest Service, North Dakota Sawmill Directory (2014-2015). A listing here is not an endorsement.
Tim Stegman is a mill in Neche, North Dakota. It appears in the North Dakota Forest Service, North Dakota Sawmill Directory (2014-2015). It is recorded as a firewood, rough lumber and dressed lumber operation. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Sheldon Mills is a mill in Sheldon, North Dakota. It appears in the North Dakota Forest Service, North Dakota Sawmill Directory (2014-2015). It is recorded as a firewood, rough lumber and pallet parts & cants operation. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Gordon Solhjem is a mill in Leonard, North Dakota. It appears in the North Dakota Forest Service, North Dakota Sawmill Directory (2014-2015). It is recorded as a firewood, rough lumber and dressed lumber operation. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Shakey Jacobson is a mill in Bowman, North Dakota. It appears in the North Dakota Forest Service, North Dakota Sawmill Directory (2014-2015). It is recorded as a rough lumber operation. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Grizzly Portable Sawmilling is a portable sawmill in Bemidji, Minnesota. It works on-site: "We come to your site with the right equipment" to turn logs into lumber, so the wood can be sawn where the trees came down. Custom mobile saw milling turns your fallen trees into valuable lumber on the property. Custom lumber makes personalized wood pieces for the home from local timber. The business works in Bemidji and surrounding areas. It is insured. To get a quote, you send a text, chat on the phone, and then receive the quote. The office is open weekdays from 9am to 5pm. It suits a landowner near Bemidji who has logs down on the property and would rather have them milled where they lie than hauled away. It also suits a homeowner who wants lumber from their own trees for a custom project in the house. From grizzlyportablesawmill.com, read 3 November 2026.
Questions landowners ask
How many mills are there in North Dakota?
18 are listed on TimberClear, sourced from the North Dakota forestry register, covering 5 counties between them.
How do I choose between them?
Start local and get more than one. A business based in your county knows the mills and the ground; one registered for all one hundred counties may be three hours away. Every listing here shows how far its office is from the county you are looking at, so "will travel" is never mistaken for "is local". TimberClear has not vetted, verified or endorsed anybody on this site.