How it works
Three steps from log to lumber.
1
Plan
Set up your mill once: kerf, sizes, inches or millimetres. Add today’s order from the boss.
2
Cut
Type the small end and the length. Get the pattern and the blade height for every cut.
Log 16″ × 12′ Max yield
- 1Slab off15 3/8″
- 21×614 1/4″
- 31×813 1/8″
- 42×4 + 2×811″
- 5Turn 180°—
- 6Slab off10 3/8″
- 71×69 1/4″
Blade height above the bed · 160 bd ft · yield 79.6%
Try your log
3
Track
Confirm what came off. At the end of the shift, show the report or send it as a picture.
Shift report Example
- Logs sawn
- 28 × 16″
- Boards
- 308 pcs
- Lumber
- 4,480 bd ft
- Yield
- 79.6%
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No sign-up. The same engine as the app.
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Log scale calculator
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Log load calculator
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Log cutting calculator
A cutting pattern for your log and sizes, with the blade height for every cut. The app’s engine, in the browser.
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Built for the mill floor
Practical tools for real work. No unnecessary complexity.
- Pattern in a secondTwo numbers in, the best yield out. No scanning.
- Safer first cutsHints when the log lies on its round side.
- Less wasteExact search on every face, to a tenth of a millimetre.
- Shift reportLogs, lumber by size, plan versus actual.
Made by a sawyer
Sawmill Planner is built by Ivan Lukichev, who spent eight years at band and circular sawmills — as head sawyer, offbearer and saw filer. Glove-sized buttons, works offline, inches with 1/16″ steps or millimetres.
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