ANDOVER DOWN SAWMILL

Now has it own website !

Click on above link this blog is just info from before Emma dragged Mark into the 21st Century

Mark’s father started...

... the business over fifty years ago at the farm given over to industrial units on a road that leads from a roundabout just off the A303 to Whitchurch, Hampshire.

All those years later Mr Barnett senior may have sadly passed but the machinery whilst undeniably old and creaking hasn’t gone to the great scrap heap in the sky or to be strictly accurate Hirst’s Scrap yard just outside St Mary Bourne.

The terrifying big saw finally got Mark ...

... and three of his fingers in August 2013. He has bravely battled back and the business is on the up with new help Emma.

The Andover Down Sawmill’s...

... main business is in soft wood posts, fences, sheds and anythink of that ilk you fancy. Mark also does green Oak but finds it very hard to make a profit on a log with the amount of waste involved- I know how he feels.

You can now email Andover Down Sawmill

Despite his stresses Mark is always...

... friendly, helpful and cheerful and a very straightforward person to do business with. Once he has taken on board sufficient coffee and fags to get a head of steam up he is poetry in motion on the big saw.

I would say he could do it with his eyes shut but it’s not a very good idea when you have a 23’ circular saw blades whizzing around your fingers – mind you it would solve his elbow problem! This last sentance was written a couple of years before he changed his glove size & hand shake!

Mark now has a Woodmizer ...

... which he hopes will increase production and with new efficiency you may well get your order done on time.

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