The sawmill in Lumber Tycoon 2

It turns logs into planks, and planks sell for far more.

Feed a log in one end and planks come out of the other. At the Wood Dropoff an Oak log fetches $3.5 a unit and an Oak plank $10; for Frost Wood it is $9 against $106. Milling before you sell is the easiest way to earn more from the same trees. Wood R Us sells five sawmills, from the Shabby Sawmill at $130 to the Sawmax 02L at $86,500.

A grey sawmill on an orange plot with a conveyor of rollers leading out of it and a player beside it — A sawmill on a base, with a conveyor carrying the planks away.

All five sawmills

Sawmill	Price	Widest log	Largest plank	Longest log
Shabby Sawmill	$130	1.4	1.8 × 1.2	10.9
Fair Sawmill	$1,600	1.6	2.4 × 1.6	10.9
Sawmax 01	$11,000	2	3 × 2	10.9
Sawmax 02	$22,500	2.6	3 × 2.6	10.9
Sawmax 02L	$86,500	2.6	3 × 2.6	18.9

Widths and lengths are in the game’s units. A log too wide to go in whole can still be milled: cut it into smaller chunks and feed them in sideways. A log too long has to be cut shorter; only the Sawmax 02L takes logs longer than 10.9.

Which one to buy

Starting out: the Shabby Sawmill: It handles branches of Oak, Cherry and Birch. When you start bringing back thick trunks, it is the first thing to replace.
The one often skipped: the Fair Sawmill: A little wider than the Shabby, wide enough for branches of Zombie and Gold wood. Players often pass it over, since it is only a small step up.
The long-term pick: the Sawmax 02: It takes the widest logs of any sawmill whole, 2.6 units across. The 02L is the same machine made longer, for logs up to 18.9 units.

A setup that loads your truck for you

The simplest useful setup costs $410 in conveyors and runs the planks straight into your truck:

Place two wall blueprints and set the sawmill on top of them.
Run a straight conveyor and a funnel conveyor from the sawmill’s output.
Add another straight conveyor and two tilted conveyors that carry the planks up and over.
Rotate your truck’s spawner and place it under the end of the conveyors. Unload your logs into the sawmill, respawn the truck, and the planks fall into its bed.

A player standing on an orange plot beside a row of grey roller conveyors running up a slope — Tilted conveyors carrying planks up and away from the sawmill.

**BEST 3 Sawmill Setups Tutorial - Lumber Tycoon 2**BrickyBeast · 5:43Three sawmill setups built step by step, from two walls and a conveyor to a loader you drive a car into.

Bigger versions add a ramp you drive up to unload, a switch that sends planks either to storage or to the truck, and a button wired to the truck spawner. Then load it up at the best-paying wood you can reach, and drive the planks to the drop-off.

Conveyors and the truck spawner both need land to sit on; the bigger setups take up more of it.