Ellis Company, The Jack

The record has this facility taking pine, softwood, oak, maple, hickory, ash, cherry, poplar, and hardwood, and species decides more of what a load is worth than the gate it goes through. The source stops at oak without naming a species, so the Southern yellow pine and white oak guides are where to start: how that wood is graded, the defects that pull it down a grade, and what it is normally cut for. The reference list adds a row on hard maple - what buyers take it for, and the catch, though the source never narrows maple to a single species.

It is one of 3 facilities listed in Dekalb County, which is where a search for a sawmill near me starts if your ground is in that county. The Dekalb County section of the state page has every one of them side by side, and all 248 Georgia listings run across 103 counties - which is the map that decides whether a load leaves your gate for twenty minutes or two hours.

Anybody searching for a sawmill near me needs more than one gate. If this one will not take your wood, the nearest other listings are 151 Hoyt Sawmill in LaFayette, AA Farms, Inc. in Canon and Accuwright-Custom Sawing in Thomaston. Distances are straight lines between the coordinates the sources published - not road miles, and not a statement that anybody is buying.

None of this says whether the gate is open or what the load would fetch - no agency document records that. A price comes out of a sale run properly: the landowner's guide to selling timber takes the steps in the order they happen, and sealed bidding puts one tract in front of several buyers at once instead of taking the first number offered.