Orangeburg County · South Carolina mill directory

Sims Bark

Sawmill · Mulch plant

Sims Bark is listed as a sawmill and a mulch plant at 172 Arista Road, Bowman, SC, Muscle Shoals, AL, SC 35662, in Orangeburg County. If you came looking for a sawmill near me, this is the Muscle Shoals, AL end of that question: the address is published, your own is not, so the haul is yours to measure. The listing is published by Primary Forest Products Network (Southern Group of State Foresters); AXE USA republishes it as it stands and adds nothing to it.

Where it is

172 Arista Road, Bowman, SC
Muscle Shoals, AL, SC 35662
Town
Muscle Shoals, AL
County
Orangeburg County, South Carolina
ZIP
35662
Published coordinates
33.40400, -80.62560

No contact published

Primary Forest Products Network (Southern Group of State Foresters) publishes this facility's location but no phone number, email, or website, and AXE USA does not fill that gap from anywhere else. The agency record linked below is the place to check for a number.

What this facility is

Sawmill

A sawmill breaks logs down into boards. Sawlogs are graded on diameter, straightness and defect before they reach the headrig, so this is the outlet that pays for stem quality rather than tonnage - and the slabs, edgings and sawdust it makes are what feed the chip, shavings and mulch trade around it.

Mulch plant

A mulch plant grinds bark, mill residue and low-grade wood into landscape mulch, colours it and bags it. Haul distance and volume matter more than what the wood would have graded.

What it takes

The record lists hardwood and softwood as the material it accepts.

HardwoodSoftwood

No agency document says whether this facility is buying today, what it pays, the minimum load it will take, or how far it will haul. AXE USA does not check any mill's licence, insurance, ability, or whether it is still in business - this page republishes a public record and nothing more.

Reading this listing

What it means for your timber

The source goes no further than hardwood and softwood here, which is a starting point rather than a specification. The species guides take the trees one at a time - what each is cut for, how it is graded, and where the line between pulpwood and sawtimber falls.

It is one of 5 facilities listed in Orangeburg County, which is where a search for a sawmill near me starts if your ground is in that county. The Orangeburg County section of the state page has every one of them side by side, and all 95 South Carolina listings run across 38 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 Cameron Lumber Company in Cameron, 12 miles away, Dempsey Wood Products, Inc. in Rowesville, 12 miles away and Elite Equine Shavings in Bamberg, 28 miles away. 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.

What else is listed around it

5

Listed facilities in Orangeburg County

2

Of them run as a sawmill

12mi

Straight line to the nearest other sawmill

95

Listed facilities statewide

Across Orangeburg County the sources list 2 mulch plant listings, 2 other processor listings, 2 sawmill listings, 1 chip mill. A facility can be listed under more than one of those, so the numbers overlap rather than adding up.

Where this listing comes from

Edition
Continuously maintained - the source publishes no edition date
Fetched by AXE USA
2026-08-18

Fields are never merged between documents: every line above came from this one record, so a listing from a source that publishes no phone number stays without one.

Other mills in Orangeburg County

Every other listed facility in Orangeburg County, South Carolina.

All of Orangeburg County

This listing comes from an agency document. Mills close and move between publications. If you know this one is shut, has moved, or the number is wrong, tell us and we will check it.

Got timber to move in Orangeburg County?

This listing says where Sims Bark is and what the agency records it as taking. It does not say what it will pay. Put the tract out for sealed bids and let the buyers around Muscle Shoals, AL answer that themselves.