peckerwood sawmill

noun2

1. •
   A small-scale sawmill, often with older equipment not capable of producing wood of uniform dimension.

   • The thousands of gasoline-powered "peckerwood" sawmills that scatter wood waste across the landscape, and the big lumber, veneer, and pulp mills that stand in distant isolation from one another — 1949
2. •
   (Southern-US) Any small-scale production operation.