The Rawlings family knows the meaning of hard work. The family business started out as a small Sawmill Construction and consulting company in 1976. While growing a successful business and reputation within the forest industry they raised their three sons, John, Craig and Mike, in and around sawmills working and learning the industry inside out from the bottom up.

In the 1980’s, Cliff Rawlings had tinkered with enough wood grinders that he developed the Rawlings solid rotary wood hog. During this time sawmills had generally used hammer mills to pulverize bark into hog fuel for boilers, but many had given up on processing cedar because the bark was so stringy.

Cliff’s new grinder used a system of solid rotors that efficiently reduced the more challenging bark without the usual equipment breakdown.  The same concept with some improvising to the Super Hi-Inertia™ rotor is being utilized today in the Rawlings wood hog design. Since then the family owned and operated company has manufactured and marketed several series of product lines offering a complete line of horizontal and vertical grinders in a range of sizes, diesel or electric powered.

Rawlings Vertical wood hogs are available in 7 different sizes, in both vertical and horizontal models to fit any application; from simple stand-alone Vertical Hogs, to complete multi-dimensional Horizontal grinding systems. As a proven leader in size reduction equipment, we’re assisting our customers in utilizing renewable resources while reducing and recycling a wide variety of wood waste into valuable wood fiber products. Each system can be designed with work platform decks, choice of belt, chain or vibrating in-feed and out-feed conveyors, metal or magnet protection, product screening and separation, receiving transfers and walking floor storage bins all customizable for your specific operation.