Farrow's Mill, North Carolina - Since 1968

Sawn here. Dried here.
Ready for your best work.

The mill cuts and kilns it, the yard sells it: live-edge slabs, hardwood boards, and custom milling from the same family that's been doing it for three generations.

Browse the slab gallery Get a milling quote

The Mill - Trade Side

Custom milling, done the way you spec it

Contractors, furniture makers, and farms bring us logs and cut lists. We saw, sticker, and kiln-dry on site, so you know exactly where your lumber has been since it was a tree.

Rough-sawn live-edge boards stacked in the mill

Sawing & kiln drying

Logs up to 30 inches on the band mill, sawn to your dimensions: slabs, boards, or beams. Everything stickers and dries in our own kiln down to 8 percent, so it's stable when it hits your shop.

Flat, quarter, or rift sawn to order
Slabbing from 8/4 to 16/4
Kiln scheduling for your stock, not just ours

Bring your own log

The tree that came down in your yard can become your dining table. Haul it in, or ask about pickup within twenty miles. We saw it, dry it, and call you when it's ready - most yard trees run $120 to $250 to slab.

Fair warning we give everybody: yard trees hide nails. Blade strikes are billed at cost, so bring us the log, not the tire swing hardware.

The Yard - Walk-In Side

The lumber yard for people who build

Half the folks through the gate are furniture makers hunting a board with figure; the other half need fence rails and firewood. Both leave loaded. Walk the racks, flip through the slab stacks, pay at the shed.

Boards, timbers, and the humble stuff

Kiln-dried hardwood boards in walnut, cherry, white oak, ash, and maple, plus framing stock, fence boards, and rough-cut timbers. Sawdust, slab wood, and firewood by the truckload for the practical half of your trip.

Hardwoods sold by the board foot, marked on the rack
Straight-line rip and planing while you wait
No minimum - buy one board or a trailer load

THE PRICE BOARD

Per board foot, kiln dried, updated when the chalk changes - nobody leaves confused about the price.

Walnut	$12.00	Ash	$6.00
Cherry	$8.50	Soft Maple	$5.50
White Oak	$9.00	Slab wood, truckload	$40
Hard Maple	$7.50	Firewood, half cord	$120

THE BOARD-FOOT CALCULATOR

Figure your order before you drive over. Thickness x width x length, divided by 144 - we did the arithmetic so you don't have to.

Thickness

Width (in)

Length (ft)

Boards

Species

5.3 board feet

about $64 in Walnut

Estimate from the price board. The number that counts is the one Dean writes on your ticket - width and figure vary board to board.

In The Racks Right Now

The slab gallery

Every slab pictured is real, numbered, and in the shed. Click any photo for a closer look, or filter by species. When one sells, it comes down - if you see it, we have it.

Figured ash slab with stabilized knot — **No. 118 - Figured Ash**38 in x 9 ft - epoxy-stabilized - $1,450

Walnut slab with dramatic figure — **No. 104 - Walnut**30 in x 7 ft - crotch figure - $1,900

Spalted maple slab with black line figure — **No. 121 - Spalted Maple**26 in x 6 ft - heavy spalting - $780

Cherry slab crosscut detail — **No. 97 - Cherry**24 in x 5 ft - sawn face - $520

Cedar slab with dramatic striped grain — **No. 110 - Red Cedar**Mantel stock - aromatic - $240

White oak round with bark edge — **No. 63 - White Oak Round**22 in - bark intact - $95

Stack of polished wood rounds — **Mixed Rounds**14-20 in - from $45

Finished live-edge cedar desk — **Customer Build - Cedar Desk**from slab No. 89 - sold

While You Sleep

Get a quote without picking up the phone

Tell us what you're after - a slab, a cut list, a log you want sawn - and it lands straight in the shop inbox. Dean quotes everything before 9am, in the order it came in. You'll get a number, not a runaround.

Photos help. If it's a log, tell us length and the widest diameter. If it's a project, tell us the finished sizes and we'll figure the board feet for you.

Rather talk? (919) 555-0164, seven to five weekdays. Ask for Dean.

Your name

Tell us who to quote it to.

Phone or email

We need one way to reach you.

What do you need?

Species, if you know it

Sizes or slab number

Anything else

Got it. Your request is in the shop inbox and Dean quotes everything before 9am. (This is a demonstration site, so no actual Dean was woken up. On a real site, here's what just happened: your request arrived in the owner's email with everything they need to price the job - name, contact, what you want, sizes - formatted so they can read it from their phone in ten seconds. They reply with a number or a question, and you never sat through a phone tree or played tag. The quote came to the shop while the shop was closed; that's the whole point.)

The counter that never came back out

Earl Hardyes set up a one-blade mill on the creek road in 1968 to saw for the farms around Farrow's Mill. Folks waiting on their lumber kept asking to buy boards straight off the drying stack, so Earl nailed together a sales counter out of his own ash. It never came back out.

Three generations on, that's still the whole business: the same saws that cut for contractors fill the racks you walk on Saturday morning. Mill on one side, yard on the other, one family in the middle.

Milling quoted before we start. Yard prices on the board. Nobody leaves confused.

Come By

Hours and directions

Yard hours

Mon-Fri 7-5

Saturday 8-1. The good slabs go on Saturday mornings; you've been warned.

Mill quotes

(919) 555-0164

Ask for Dean. Text photos of your log and save yourself the first trip.

Find us

1531 Creek Rd

Farrow's Mill, NC. Follow the sawdust smell past the bridge; gate's on the left.

Payment

Cash, card, check

Delivery available on full loads within twenty-five miles.

Sawn here. Dried here.Ready for your best work.