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sawmill
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thumb|257px|Sawing logs into finished lumber with a basic "portable" sawmill thumb|right|An American sawmill, thumb|Early 20th-century sawmill, maintained at Jerome, Arizona|Jerome, Arizona
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thumb|257px|Sawing logs into finished lumber with a basic "portable" sawmill thumb|right|An American sawmill, thumb|Early 20th-century sawmill, maintained at Jerome, Arizona|Jerome, Arizona
A sawmill (saw mill, saw-mill) or lumber mill is a facility where logs are cut into lumber. Modern sawmills use a motorized saw to cut logs lengthwise to make long pieces, and crosswise to length depending on standard or custom sizes (dimensional lumber). The "portable" sawmill is simple to operate. The log lies flat on a steel bed, and the motorized saw cuts the log horizontally along the length of the bed, by the operator manually pushing the saw. The most basic kind of sawmill consists of a chainsaw and a customized jig ("Alaskan sawmill"), with similar horizontal operation.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “sawmill” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.