Granberg International manufactures saw chain maintenance tools to repair and sharpen saw chain and attachments for your chain saw to mill your own lumber.

Granberg International has been in business for almost forty years and in that time has introduced many innovative and useful tools to all the continents of the world (except maybe Antartica). Currently the saw mill attachments are the most popular. They are very portable and environmental impact is minimized. The ALASKAN MARK III and the MINI-MILL II portable chain saw mill attachments allow the user to efficently saw trees on site and produce dimensional lumber suitable for building or woodworking projects.

The Alaskan MK III Saw Mill Attachment

Frequently Asked Questions

MAGAZINE REVIEWS

AMERICAN WOODWORKER    "SMALL-SCALE SAWMILLS" July/August 1991 issue, pages 48-49: "A saw that you can pick up and carry has a lot of advantages. You can take the saw to the log instead of having to lug an enormous log to the saw. That can be an important consideration even if you are equipped to move heavy logs. A suburban tree can be carried out of the backyard as boards, without chopping up the lawn."
"A more sophisticated chainsaw-mill approach is Granberg's Alaskan Mark III ....."
"These chainsaw mills are serious tools. Adequately powered , properly sharpened, run by two experienced operators, they will saw a 2-1/2 ft dia x 8 ft long oak into 2-in planks in little more than an hour, including a stop to sharpen the chain."

FIELD & STREAM    "CHAINSAW LUMBER MILLS" by John Decker, April 1996, page 42: "Today, milling lumber at the site instead of trucking the trees to a mill still makes a certain amount of sense-especially if your site is far from roads or other signs of civilization. And thanks to modern chainsaw lumber mills, this is actually possible and affordable. We tested the smallest model of this mill(the Alaskan). Quite frankly, after assembling the mill and then bolting it to a Makita chainsaw, the whole thing looked as if it couldn't possibly work. Happily, we couldn't have been more wrong."
"But the MK III's low cost and ease of use-and the skyrocketing cost of many hardwood species-means it's well worth cutting some wood into lumber instead of firewood, even if you take down trees only occassionally."

WOODWORK    "MILLING LUMBER WITH A PORTABLE CHAIN SAW MILL" by David Mahaffery, June 1995, pages 47-48; "When I bought mine around 1983, the mill and two .076 Stihl chain-saw engines and good quality metal detector(a necessity) came to a little more than two thousand dollars. This approximated the value of the milled and dried 8/4 walnut lumber from my first two trees."

WOODWORK   "ELM: A BESIEGED GIANT" by Bruce Gray, June 1996, pages 62 and 63; "The current situation with white elm suggests that it makes sense to seek out dying elm and mill it yourself. In four hours, two people can chain-saw mill, move and stack 400 bf of wood, worth about $4,000.00 US. This assumes you are experienced with the equipment, are working a log 40" diameter or larger, and that you are flitch cutting into 2-1/2" thick slabs. City arborists are usually pleased to see wood used in a constructive way, rather than being simply discarded."