To sell or saw

[Arthur]

If your cousin has a mill talk with him about a share deal.  You supply the wood, he supplies he milling and you split the profit.  Should at least double your money.  I would expect a 10 fold increase myself.

We are starting a collection center for those who only mill small numbers.  Here we will grade and restack to sell to the highest bidder and then split the profit with the owners.  If the owner is prepared to wait the 6 to 18 months for their return then we can up their profit form a few hundred per cubiv meter to 6 or 7 hundreds.

Dont know about your local but here it seems to be stuff the small guy whenever possible and still have the customer pay though the nose because the hardwoods are getting harder to get.  Some traditional mills are quoting times of 6 months to get a select species specific hardwood.

And if you do descide to buy a swinger the normally pay for themseleves within 3 to 4 months, 12 months if your just doing weekends.

all the best with your descision.

arthur

[PawNature]

I want to thank everyone for their imput. I grew up around sawmills and timber. At 52 I still remember me trying to roll a log with the cant hook and Dad  reaching over with one hand and almost slinging me over the mill. I also remember in at age 11 following an old muel out of the woods and the log digging up a yellow jackets nest and me with no shirt on. OUCH!  The old muel would have logged himself if he could have driven the grabb hooks in.. But anyway I have been out of the woods so long I thought this would be a good place to get some sound advice. I bought a chainsaw mill form one of the members here. Love that but it wasn;t doing what i wanted. I sold it sunday. My plans are to buy a swing blade and do as pretty much as Arthur suggested, as i plan on being a weekend sawer anyway. Thanks agin everyone very much

[PawNature]

WOW! I just read my post I reall do know how to spell. 

[Tom]

You know what is really neat about this forum?  You can click on that "modify" tag on the top right of the post and fix that stuff, if you want. 

[PawNature]

Thanks Tom, still learning

[Tom]

I've about worn the Modify tab off of my screen.