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NORWOOD AMBASSADORS

Real Sawmillers & Woodworking Creators

Meet Norwood Ambassadors—trusted sawmill owners, woodworkers, homesteaders, and creators sharing real projects, real results, and real-world milling experience.

Dave Boyt

Dave Boyt

Dave Boyt (the one on the left) is owner and operator of the Pottershop Hollow Tree Farm & Portable Sawmill, located in the foot hills of the Ozarks in southwest Missouri. He has been a proud Norwood sawmill owner since 2021, and cuts custom lumber, produces instructional videos for Norwood, and is always happy to demonstrate his mill and give out advice about forestry and sawmills to anyone who will listen.

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Bearwoods Northwest

Bearwoods Northwest

Warren Arcano of Bearwoods Northwest is a Norwood Ambassador known for showcasing custom woodworking, milling projects, and craftsmanship from the Pacific Northwest.

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Madison Clysdale

Madison Clysdale

Madison Clysdale is an aspiring homesteader building her cabin using raw, natural materials sourced from her land in British Columbia.

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Pop's Barn

Pop's Barn

At Pop’s Barn, Bob Gockeler hand-selects only the logs worthy of the mill - chosen for character, scale, and hidden beauty. After decades of working wood, he and his son Will, the next generation of the craft, read each log and cut with intention to reveal what most sawyers never see.

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Sawdust Society

Sawdust Society

Jean Aucoin is a Canadian woodworker and sawyer from Northern New Brunswick, documenting his work under Sawdust Society. From forest to finished project, he shares practical woodworking, sawmilling, and shop builds using a Norwood portable sawmill.

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Troy McClung

Troy McClung

Meet Troy McClung of Red Tool House, a Norwood Ambassador sharing hands-on woodworking, sawmilling, and tool insights through his popular YouTube channel.

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Wild Homestead

Wild Homestead

James Alofs left the big city behind to start a new chapter on 40 acres of wilderness, where he began building a homestead from the ground up.

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Brodye Chappell

Brodye Chappell

Furniture maker Brodye Chappell creates finely crafted, timeless pieces using traditional woodworking techniques in Prince Edward Island.

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Ghost Town Living

Ghost Town Living

Brent Underwood is the owner and caretaker of Cerro Gordo, a remote silver-mining town founded in 1865 and abandoned for more than a century. For the past five years, he has lived there full-time, rebuilding historic structures, uncovering forgotten history, and navigating the realities of life in an isolated desert ghost town.

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Jack Osbourne

Jack Osbourne

Jack Osbourne jumped into ranch life on a massive Idaho property with zero experience—and a lot to learn. Between family life, nonstop projects, and running a sawmill to turn logs into usable lumber, he’s figuring it out one cut at a time.

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Ottawa Milling

Ottawa Milling

Yves Fournier is a sawyer and woodworker living in Canada’s capital, Ottawa Ontario. His love of woodworking, the outdoors and salvaging brought him into the world of chainsaw milling. The first time Yves milled a log, he was hooked. Seeing what could be made of locally salvaged logs brought him a sense of pride, accomplishment and belonging to the milling community.

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William Prophett

William Prophett

“The practical sawyer who bridges traditional craftsmanship with modern portable milling.”

Billy is the founder of Pirate Solutions Forestry, operating a fully hydraulic Norwood HD36V2. As a Norwood Brand Ambassador, he works closely with the engineering and customer service teams to test, refine and promote new products in real-world conditions.

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Joshua Robbins

Joshua Robbins

A US Navy Chief Petty Officer and Electronics Systems Specialist, Joshua brings over 20 years of military leadership and high-level technical expertise to the Norwood HD38 platform.

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