Selling Timber in Shelby County, TN

Ralph Taylor Lumber is a mill in Memphis, Tennessee. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. It is also listed as a timber buyer, a logging contractor and a consulting forester. A listing here is not an endorsement.

CityWood is a sawmill and woodworking shop in Memphis, Tennessee, serving Shelby County. If you have logs sitting around and no way to cut them, this is the kind of place that takes that job on. They run two sawmills on site: a Wood-Mizer portable mill that handles logs up to 28 inches across and 17-1/2 feet long, and an Oscar 52 that takes logs up to 52 inches across and 24 feet long, used for cutting slabs. For logs too big even for that, they have custom chainsaw mills that can handle logs up to 9 feet wide. The portable mill can also be brought to your property, so you don't have to haul logs anywhere, "this sawmill can be used at our facility or taken to the location of your logs." Beyond milling, they do custom furniture, turning sawn lumber into finished pieces. The way it works is simple: you fill out a form to book time on their mills, and they cut your lumber, "we'll do all the heavy lifting." You can also call them directly to set things up. There's no stated minimum size for a job, but there's also nothing here about what to do with standing timber, cruising a tract, or marking trees for a harvest. This fits a landowner who already has logs down, or a tree or two to clear, and just needs them turned into usable lumber or slabs rather than someone to manage a timber sale. From city-wood.com, read 3 October 2026.

Sam Carey Lumber Co is a sawmill and hardwood lumber supplier in Germantown, Tennessee, in Shelby County. It has been in business since 1936, run today from its sales office in Memphis and a mill in Cairo, Illinois. The company supplies kiln-dried hardwood lumber in species like Soft Maple, Cherry, Walnut, Cypress, Hickory, Hard Maple, Red Oak, White Oak, Ash, Poplar, Sycamore, and Aromatic Cedar, drawn from Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, and Tennessee. Lumber is shed-dried, kiln dried to 6-8% moisture, "stress relieved and conditioned," then checked by NHLA inspectors. It offers custom milling, including straight line ripping and finish surfacing, plus rift and quartered Red Oak, White Oak, and Ash. Every package is export prepped and tallied, and the company welcomes flatbed or container loading. Sam Carey calls Memphis "the hardwood capital of the world," and ships from its sales offices there and its Cairo, Illinois facilities, with a stated capacity of over 6,000,000 feet of Appalachian hardwoods. This fits a landowner looking for a hardwood lumber supplier or a custom milling shop to work with cut boards, not a crew that comes out to harvest standing timber on a property. From samcareylumber.com, read 3 October 2026.