Reputable online lumber sellers provide photos, dimensions and descriptions of the actual boards you’re buying. Serious woodworkers prefer to buy rough-sawn wood and then flatten and machine those ...

There are two drawbacks to sourcing wood this way. The first is that the lumber is even rougher than rough-sawn lumber from a mill, and will take more work to square up.

SESD Rough Sawn Lumber is near Lennox, SD. The mill started as a passion, and the owner wants to make sure that’s engrained in every product he sells.

In 2002, Rough & Ready shut down its small-log mill running three shifts. It needed millions in investment to compete in commodity timber, said Link Phillippi, the mill's president.

LENNOX, S.D. (KELO) — A Lennox area lumber business has plans to expand to a new location.Southeast South Dakota Rough Sawn Lumber provides custom milling services and lumber to contractors and ...