Portable Sawmilling & Timber Felling in and Around Nevada County, California
Licensed & Insured
LTO# A013969
We provide on-site mobile sawmilling services throughout Nevada County, CA, turning your logs into custom-cut lumber right where they’re felled. Serving landowners, builders, and homeowners in Nevada City, Grass Valley, and surrounding areas.
Serving Nevada County and surrounding areas for 32 years.
We are Nevada County's most experienced custom mobile mill & professional timber-felling service.
Services
Expert tree felling and complete land management services in Nevada County and beyond with 32 years experience in mobile saw milling, private, and commercial timber felling, climbing, mastication, and fire-fighting.
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On-site log milling
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Custom lumber cutting to order
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Live edge and slab milling
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Dimensional lumber for building projects
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Milling of local species (cedar, pine, fir, hardwoods, etc....)
Custom Milling
We bring the mill to you and tailor your timber to your exact specifications. We have worked with land and home owners for decades in turning their trees into lumber for buildings, floors, furniture and more. With a vast knowledge of dimensions and applications, we can advise best uses for each species with consideration of both dollar value and common utilization. Whether you have downed trees from utility projects, hazard trees near your home, or your forest needs thinning, we hope you will consider turning your logs into your own custom lumber supply.
Tree Felling
Alongside our sawmill business, we have contracted with commercial logging companies for decades, and are experts in the field of tree felling, and timber management. We can advise on best practices for managing your timbered lands, your hazard trees and best choices for fire preparedness and vegetation abatement. We are able to employ a diversity of timber felling and tree management practices- including forest thinning, climbing and crane removals.
Land Management
With a deep understanding of forest health stemming from a passion for the natural world, we bring decades of fire experience to the table, from stints as a sawyer on the Tahoe Hotshots, to working on fire engines and volunteer fire fighting, to years of contract timber felling on major fire incidents with Calfire and the Forest Service, we are uniquely positioned to assist homeowners in preparing land for fire. Backed by decades of experience working inside devastated fire zones, around both burned and standing homes, Homestead is best prepared to help home-owners formulate and implement a fire resilience plan.
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About
Homestead Logging and Milling is owned and operated by Theo des Tombe, a lifelong Nevada County resident who has devoted his life to working in timber and fire. He began learning his trade in 1994 working alongside an old friend who owned a Woodmizer LT40. Theo is dedicated to helping clients convert their excess or, sometimes, their beloved trees into useful timber. He takes great care with his job sites, is very considerate of property and landscape, while leaving wood stacks that are like works of art in themselves. Theo has worked with many hundreds of property owners over the years both locally and in surrounding counties, making a lot of friends along the way. When not on location with his mill, you might find him working as a commercial logger, cutting trees on a fire line during fires, or better yet, hiking in an old-growth forest with his family.
We proudly serve all of the following and beyond:
Nevada City
Grass Valley
Rough and Ready
Penn Valley
North San Juan
Lake Wildwood
Surrounding foothill and valley communities
If you’re located in or near Nevada County, we can bring the mill directly to your property.
Call, text or email to discuss your logs, species, and project needs. We serve customers throughout Nevada County, CA and in surrounding foothill and valley communities.
Homestead
Logging & Milling
Grass Valley, Ca.
Nevada County, Ca.
