Bob's Big Boards
About Bob's Big Boards
Bob's Big Boards is a sawmill in Longview, Washington. It cuts and finishes lumber from logs, working the wood from freshly felled tree through to a finished board, all processed in its own shop. This is not a timber buyer or a logging outfit. It takes in logs and turns them into boards and lumber, working with local hardwoods and sometimes rare woods that come its way. It specializes in large sizes, "Specializing in larger boards," and can handle pieces up to 6 feet wide and 25 feet long. Boards are air dried, then kiln dried to the right moisture, then sanded or planed before they go out. The company was founded in the early 2000s by Bob Doran, who had already spent decades in the wood business, "over 50 years of experience in the local hardwood industry," including many years at Weyerhaeuser in Longview before starting this family run mill. It is locally owned and family operated, and it sources its wood from in and around Cowlitz County, serving the Pacific Northwest and Southwest Washington more broadly. This fits a landowner who has already got logs down, or who is thinking about having a tree milled into boards for a project, rather than someone looking for help selling standing timber or finding a logger. From bobsbigboards.com, read 4 October 2026.
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