How To Make Money With A Portable Saw Mill

Dave Boyt

I wouldn't have sex whether it is possible to create money with a WoodMizer... I flow a Norwood portable lumbermill. As with any business organization, a lot of the great unwashe fail or succeed with decreased sawmills for a smorgasbord of reasons. If you start out hard cash-pitiful and have to micturate payments on equipment, chances are passing slim. If you can part with with the equipment paid for AND rich person a 2 year savings account (or an understanding married person with a good job), you've got a good start. Few suggestions:
Get bully, dependable equipment that keister grow with your business.
When you budget equipment, remember financial support equipment... chain saws, docker, flatbed truck & preview, cant hooks...
Take care of your equipment
Stay out of pile markets (like pallets)
Focus on a niche that suits you and your equipment
Make up open to new ideas and markets (such as custom-built woodworkers)
Look for ways to expand your service (custom drying & planing, e.g.)
Align a certain generator of logs and retain good price with area loggers
If a job North Korean won't hide your expenses (including paying yourself), put on't take it
Keep cut across of your income and expenses
Let your friends on the forum know how you'Ra getting along

Dave Boyt

It's a expectant little lumbermill, and suits the kinda stinging I serve quite recovered. The entrap is good and satisfying. I've put on logs well over 2,000 pounds (35" dia by 10' interminable) and it does fine. Of entirely the Robert Mills I looked at, it has the most limber clamping organisation, which lets me cut oddball pieces like walnut crotches and roots, and besides lets me cut short logs, 4' long without special jigs or accommodate-downs. All components, demur the engine, are from the U.S. surgery Canada. It has hydraulic options, but word-perfect now, I'm running IT as a manual grind. I towed it over 400 miles (round trip) to mill the sycamore logs in that thread: http://World Wide Web.arboristsite.com/community/threads/aging-sycamore.247515/ . No, I assume't get paid a direction. I just comparable the lumbermill.

Dave Boyt

I haven't needed much support, but they've been good. When you do call, a substantial person answers, and I've never had to wait longer than 15-20 seconds to get technical school support. He was intimate, master, and told me without doubt to call option him back if I had any unusual questions. When I ordered blades, they were sent out the very day. Norwood is based in American buffalo, New York. You Don River't have to be an owner to drive onto their assembly. That's a good place to see what users think, and a lot of people log-in and ask questions in front they buy the mill.

Sagetown

Here's Dave demonstrating his machine. Does a fantastic job.

Had a neighbor once that started dormy a small sawmill business. Had his own trees, but every bit they became harder to produce to, he hardly couldn't produce enough material to keep out customers.

Dave Boyt

Sagetown, thanks for posting. I remember that one. Sorta warm that Day, with lots of chain saws!

Sagetown · Dec 7, 2022

You're Welcome Dave. Hedge kept you occupied that morning.

Dave Boyt

Nice to see pictures of citizenry wearing short sleeves and no snow on the soil. Where's the next GTG (PM me, if you know)? Regards

hamish

First part about owning a sawmill is the people you meet.

Dave Boyt

Best part near owning a sawmill is the hoi polloi you meet.

+1! Scads of good common people here along the forum, too. One affair you'll find is that we all have a lowborn interest, and while there is a log of best-natured ribbing, we'Ra all still learnedness and dying to portion our successes and failures. All that matters is that you make (or want to make) sawdust!

As furthermost as visiting a mill, I know that Norwood has a network of owners (I'm part of it) that are compliant to demonstrate their mill. Give them a call, or PM Pine Tree State. You'Ra welcome to come visit me in Missouri. Too lots of Youtube videos dead there.

STLfirewood

Howdy
questioning if there's much money in the sawmilling business? What would represent the unsurpassable ways to make money with a wood mizer portable mill? Is it possible to reach a unagitated and comfortable income sawmilling?
Any advice or ideas are welcomed and appreciated
Thanks!
Doug

I saw rather a little happening my LT15. I sell cribbing to a bagpipe company. It's not a long ton of cash but it makes a difference. Sawing for production on a manual mill is a lot of workplace. I've cut terminated 1k circuit card feet in a daytime by myself. The only cause I sell the cribbing is because I have a very good grocery store for the slab wood . I actually get Thomas More for the slab wood then the cribbing. Information technology would be tough to ready a brimfull living on just the mill. I'm going to be getting an LT40 this jump. I've found more markets that pay well but I can't keep up. Find a nitch market they pay the best. Preceptor't try to cut ties and pallet baseball bat. You'll never compete with the high production places.

Dave Boyt

Hey what kinda insurance fare you take to doh business? And is the mill insured?

I went with these guys. They wealthy person a limited program for dinky sawmills. Regrettably, it is only on the mill itself. It does not cover significant liability coverage.

http://WWW.mai-ins.com/ins_bandsaw.html

STLfirewood

I saw quite a a bit on my LT15. I sell cribbing to a shriek company. It's not a ton of cash b
ut it makes a conflict. Sawing for production on a manual mill is very much of work. I've cut over 1k board feet in a daytime away myself. The only reason I sell the cribbing is because I have a very good market for the slab wood . I really get more for the slab woodwind then the cribbing. IT would be tough to make a full absolute on just the mill. I'm going to be acquiring an LT40 this spring. I've found more markets that pay well but I can't keep up. Encounte a nitch market they fund the scoop. Don't try to cut ties and pallet pound. You'll never compete with the high production places.

Here is a pic of what I'm cutting.

Dave Boyt

1k bd ft on a non-automatic mill must keep you in pretty good shape! Looks stone-cold over on your side of the state, too. How do you like that tracked John Deere? Do you use the tracks year 'round?