Iron Elk Timberworks

01/03/2026

Black walnut and oak for a personal project! 👌🏻

12/31/2025

Builder Bundles coming soon.

Real rough-cut lumber for real builds —
lean-tos, sheds, and utility structures.
No box-store dimensional junk.

Stay tuned!

12/19/2025

Poplar logs cut and bucked for a guy. We don’t just mill em we cut em too.

12/10/2025

Rain, mud, and another load down. Log deck growing daily — this is what building from the ground up looks like.

12/10/2025

Early logging snap circa 1900. Huge redwood logs.

12/09/2025

Another load destined for straight, square lumber.

12/07/2025

I’m from Oregon born and raised and unfortunately I’ve never went and seen this. But pretty dang cool!

Friends… imagine driving through rural Oregon and glancing up at a hillside — only to see a 300-foot smiley face staring back at you. Not painted. Not carved. Just… growing there. 🙂

In 2011, two men from Hampton Lumber — co-owner David Hampton and forester Dennis Creel — stood on that slope with a simple idea. After a routine harvest, they were replanting the land. Same long days. Same tree charts. Same old process. But instead of rebuilding the forest in straight, predictable rows, they decided to slip in a little joy. 🌳

They planted larch trees in the shape of a giant face, knowing those trees would turn bright gold each fall. They filled the eyes and mouth with Douglas fir, a deep green that never changes. On the ground, you’d never notice the plan. But from above? The hillside lights up every autumn like nature’s own emoji. 🍂

Here’s the turn, friends.

This wasn’t a marketing stunt. Not a tourism scheme. It wasn’t even meant to go viral. It was just two men in a tough industry choosing to leave behind something playful — something that would reveal itself only when the seasons were right. And somehow, their quiet joke became a landmark now called the Oregon Smiley Face Forest, photographed and shared long after the planters walked away. 📸

Maybe that’s the gentle truth here: even small acts, planted with no expectation, can grow into something that makes the future smile.

12/06/2025

Started with a barn, the mill my father passed down, and a stubborn idea. Iron Elk is growing one board at a time. His legacy lives in every cut.

12/05/2025

Freshly milled rough-cut lumber headed out to a customer for a new deer stand build.

12/05/2025

🔥 IRON ELK WALNUT RAFFLE — ONLY 6 SPOTS 🔥

Black walnut.
14” wide • 4’2” long • 2¼” thick

Live-edge attitude, clean grain, and ready for whatever you want to build — table, bench, shelf, or wall piece.
One-of-one Appalachian slab milled right here at Iron Elk.

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