Freedom Builders owns and operates industrial mobile sawmills, planers and two mobile tree cutting and hauling units and teams. Our staff utilizes brick produced from on-site sustainable materials, to build a mid-size wood fire kiln on the work site. Once all of the equipment is in place and the kiln is operational and tested, our staff stays on the cutting site to identify and tag the hardwoods and softwoods that meet our millig standards. One by one the trees are cut down by hand and brought back to the on-site production site. The fresh cut lumber is then quickly milled and treated with active nano-sized ionic animicrobials to prevent molding and attacks by parasites.

After treating the wood, Freedom Builders loads the milled lumber into the wood burning kiln using a standard forklift. The lumber is dried between 6% – 10% moisture content. The timber is then re-treated. Afterwards the lumber is stored in an on-site 40’ container for shipping or placed in a temperature controlled are for on-site building projects.

Freedom Builders practices the highest standards of responsible and sustainable forestry management. Not as an after thought but as the original thought. From the first day our staff picked up a chainsaw we have sought to insure the highest sustainable practices possible. We never clear cut any properties. Instead, we select the most mature trees, cut them down and transport them out of the wood using non-evasive machinery.

Hardwoods from America offer specifiers, manufacturers and end-users around the world a great variety of colour, grain and character; from the warm, darker tones of walnut, red alder, elm, cherry and red oak to the lighter hues of white oak, maple and ash. There are over 20 commercial species available to Freedom Builders in the United States, and the real advantage for the manufacturer is that both veneers and solids are available in most species ensuring a good fit for any project.

The benefit of working by hand instead of relying on large machinery to access timber is the ability to pay attention to the minute details of the process. Our professionally trained staff has travelled the world to understand the best wa to utilize everything that comes from the lumber production process to produce additioonal sustainable and responsibly manufactured products. The use of a wood burning kiln to dry wood, while increasing the amount of labor needed, requires  the gathering and clearing of the limbs to provide ample fuel. An additional bi-product of cutting trees is foliage and other fruits like pine cones and acorns. In most cases these items are collected for use in organic fertilizers, essential oil production and natural paints and clothing dyes.

Freedom Builders operates Freedom Labs in cooperation with the Georgia Institute of Technologies laser and Nano-Technology labs to produce a form of ionic silver for the treatment of bacteria and mold. Nano sized, industrial collodial silver contains only silver and highly purified water. There are no other chemicals used in the treatment of the lumber. This allows Freedom Builders to produce a 100% natural product with no foreign agents that can later cause harm to humans through structural or crafted applications of the lumber.

Freedom Builders trades American hardwoods under a Standard set of Grading Rules that have been accepted throughout the hardwood industry. These Rules were established over 100 years ago by the National Hardwood Lumber Association (NHLA) and provide consistency and a common language that both buyer and seller can work with to produce successful transactions over and over again.