The J Team

11/27/2025

If anyone has wide slabs they need flattened, Jay is ready to help with a 54"x104" CNC router. It's still getting the finishing touches, but as the portable milling season winds down, now is a great time to get on his schedule.

Get ahold of Jay at 413-522-4979 (text preferred)

04/30/2025

I always bring food to my portable jobs but when a customer offers to buy lunch I just can't say no. And I have a new favorite next time I'm milling near Worcester:

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10/06/2024

Air dried pine is prone to blue staining in the warmer months, but it sure makes for a unique look on this shed. In this case we ran the shiplap with the outside face left rough; we can just as easily plane both faces.

We're sawing a lot of pine now since blue staining doesn't occur in the cooler months, so we'll have plenty of bright white pine ready for next spring.

09/27/2024

Sorting through some 13" wide pine shiplap, just about the widest our 4-sided planer can produce. We milled it 1-1/8"x14.5" to finish out at 15/16" thick for a barn floor.

We still have some of the narrower boards (10 and 12", 16' long) from this load, we sent 5300 bdft to Hardwick Kiln and they do a great job.

02/02/2024

Still getting it together, but we now have a 25" Woodmaster helical head planer to better address our customers' needs.

And it also converts into a 6 blade gang rip saw so we can more efficiently produce farm stakes. Let us know what you need and we'll have them ready for spring.

12/02/2023

As if it isn't exciting enough to have a new mill, we also have a new operator for it!

Say hello to Willow as Jay says goodbye to a good night's sleep.

She's not quite ready to get to work yet, so Jay will make sure to keep the mill running good for her in the mean time.

11/20/2023

James is heading back with our new mill, picked it up in Hannibal, NY this morning.

It's a LT40 Super with the wide head, so it saws 34" wide. At least until the warranty is up, then it will get the same treatment as mine. It's stock 28" but extends to up to 62" cut width.

10/14/2023

Come check out everything they have going on at Barnfest in Shelburne tomorrow. They're at the end of Bassett Rd and we'll be down in the field by all the lumber we milled earlier in the year for their next barn project.

And feel free to bring along a firewood length log and we can mill it into rounds or boards.

Come to Barnfest and watch Jay Clark of The J Team saw logs from the property for a new building. Barnfest starts at 1pm on October 14th.
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Barnfest is part of an ongoing series of events that ensure a strong future for Fabric of Life as we educate the young, and the young at heart, in traditional crafts, music, dance, agriculture and forestry.
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Admission to Barnfest is FREE and donations are greatly appreciated. Please leave pets at home for everyone's comfort.
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For more details, visit our website
https://www.fabric-of-life.org/barnfest-2023/
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Photo courtesy of The J Team.
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03/08/2023

If anyone has a bunch of bulk grain bags kicking around, we're happy to come grab them. We fill them with sawdust and people take them for horses, chickens, etc, but lately not enough empties have been coming back...

Duffle or spout top and size don't matter, we'll make them work. Saves us a few bucks and gets a few more uses out of them before the landfill.

02/09/2023

Just want to let anyone else with a sawmill know that we offer bandsaw blade sharpening. 3/4" 10 degree, most 7/8" profiles, and 1-1/8" 7 and 10 degree. Most lengths are $8/blade, sharpened and set.

And if you hit metal, it's a couple bucks extra but I'll send it around enough times to clean it up. At least good enough for chasing metal out of a log you'd hate to junk.