Burl and Grain

About Burl and Grain

Burl and Grain is a custom sawmill service based in Hillsboro, Oregon. They mill logs and trees you bring or haul in, mostly at their own site, and they also offer kiln drying done by an OSU certified technician. Their work covers Pacific Northwest woods and salvaged urban hardwoods, the kind of trees that come down from storms, pests, or construction and would otherwise go to a landfill or a pulp mill. They can take logs up to 36 inches across, and they've added wide slab cutting for logs up to 73 inches in diameter, cut on site. From there you can end up with slabs for tables, mantles, bench tops, stair treads, counter tops, dimensional lumber, fence posts, or heavy trailer decking. They charge by the hour for sawmill work, at $125 an hour with a two hour minimum, plus $45 per blade used on the job. Kiln drying rates vary with the thickness, species, and starting moisture of what's going in. They mostly mill at their own site in Hillsboro but will arrange pickup and transport of your logs, and in rare cases will come mill on site. As they put it, Burl and Grain "was started with the purpose of keeping these unique and valuable trees out of the pulp mill." They serve the Portland Metro Area, Southwest Washington, and the Northern Willamette Valley. This suits a landowner who has one special tree, or a pile of logs from a removal, and wants it turned into usable lumber or dried slabs rather than firewood. From burlandgrain.com, read 4 October 2026.

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