Peterson Portable Sawmills stole the show at America's biggest Portable Sawmill competition;
The Great Portable Sawmill Shootout held at the Forest Products Equipment Show in Massachusetts on May 4th this year.

Petersons won the under $10,000USD division with their WPF 8"24hp mill, cutting 510BFT/HR of 1 inch boards that's 1.2 m3/hr with 85% recovery. Petersons were competing against manual and automated, circular and bandsaws from around the world.
The Peterson Mill cut more bft/hr than all of these mills priced under $30,000USD. Petersons were also competing in the shootout with their entry level mill the ATS - All Terrain Sawmill, which cut 461 BFT/HR and achieved 79% recovery, placing the ATS mill 3rd fastest and 7th overall of mills under $30,000USD

The Portable Sawmill Shootout is the biggest competition of its kind in the USA. Portable sawmills from the USA, Australia, New Zealand, go head to head in a competition, which is judged on production and recovery.
Points are awarded for bft cut and percentage recovery, points are deducted for tapered boards, wane and incorrect sizing. Per Chris Browne, "I concentrated on maintaining high recovery as I knew that was where we could lose the most points against a bandsaw cutting 1 inch boards. These results prove that we can maintain high recovery cutting 1 inch boards and we already know we can maintain high recovery cutting bigger boards, which the bandsaws find harder to do."

At the West Coast Shootout 2001 where multiple use boards were allowed, Petersons cut 1402BFT/HR that's 3.3m3/hr cutting 2 inch boards.

The Forest Products Equipment Show has been an all round success for Peterson Sawmills as they sold both mills at the show, took another 6 orders and have a further 20 hot prospects to follow up on. Due to this success Petersons are taking orders to fill a container load to the USA in June of this year.