Baker Timber Products
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Company History
Baker Timber Products was founded in 1961 as a small timbering operation in the Black Hills of South Dakota. At first most of the wood was sold as pulp wood for paper production, later expanding into posts and poles. We skidded logs with horses in those days with axes and chain saws being standard equipment. The company then started producing sawlogs to an area sawmill later adding a sawmill of our own producing rough lumber for agriculture and building industry markets.
 
Today our operation includes a high tech logging operation, with computerized log processing equipment, a whole tree chipping operation, providing chips to a local partical board plant, and a wood grinding operation, providing a wood waste clean-up service for both private organizations and local governments.  We also produce rough lumber, planed lumber, treated wood, posts & poles, and both mulch and bagged shavings for rural and urban markets.

We are proud of our history and progress in the timber industry in South Dakota and want to continue to provide quality products and services to our customers.
Forestry
 
We chip pine tops and small diameter trees to supply chips to a local partical board plant.
We also supply chips to wood biomass heating facilities, and a wood biomass ethanol plant.
 
Whether its private lands or state and federal lands our logging operation is geared to handle most jobs, to the specifications set by the land manager.
 
We have a variety of machines, to handle a variety of thinning prescriptions on private, state and federal lands.
 
BTP can clear trees for Forest Service road packages along with private roads and driveways and building lots.
 
Our grinder is a large machine which can grind everything from yard waste at landfills to trees, brush and stumps for storm clean-up and road clearing jobs.
 
We have the equipment to build roads for Forest Service, state, and private jobs, including both dirt and gavel surfaces.
 
Mill Products
 
BTP provides a variety of planed patterns, including log siding, 1" & 2" tongue and groove, rustic channel siding, and  D-style house logs.
 
We carry treated posts and poles. We also have treated lumber on a per order basis.
 
Our rough lumber stock includes 1" and 2" lumber, along with a variety of square sizes.
We also produce custom beams, mantels, and other special cuts for unique projects.
 
Our dowel machine can make dowelled post and pole material in a range from 2.5" to 7" in diameter,  in a variety of lenghts.
 
BTP has on hand several different mulch products including our coarse pine bark and fine pine bark.
 
Our bagged shavings comes in a compressed square bale of pine shavings, usually used for animal bedding.
 
Custom Products-
We saw a variety of special beams, mantels,countertops, and handpeeled logs for that rustic wood look.