Final Business Advice and Unique Lumber Features

I spent hours looking at law just to figure out the best way to cut them up literally hours hey what's your name your company Rueben custom sawmilling Reuben are you ven just like Reuben out of whatever hey these guys hey what do you have any advice these guys are looking to buy their own sawmill what to look for well you kind of have to figure out your budget and then I would say the biggest thing is figure out how you're gonna dry your wood if you want to if you want to cut a lot of wood I'd say figure out how you're gonna dry it first and actually perhaps get your kiln set up before your sawmill so you got other things but that's what that's what I learned yes yeah I don't know how you can move all this stuff around cut so far is just like I'll take that little hand cart and just roll them here to the mill and then the middle loads what handcart kidding so these are the ones I'm going home west we've got plenty of project a lot like that I'll just hand card that to the middle and then the mill will load it with the arm it's like see you tonight that's a piece of the club yeah I actually move some yeah around that I can stage everything and just knock out production yeah kill myself too so the sawmill was the first stage you need the land so a couple of things you really need is land forgiving neighbors your agricultural you're lucky and then you need something to load the sawmill up and then spaced stack and dry stack and truck yeah to seal the seal in grains to the moisture released it prevents checking cracking moisture escapes about 10 times faster out the end then it does the rest of the log so until then the log goes bad on the end right yeah so you want to seal the end so it prevents cracks from starting early on so your boards don't get cracks when they dry off camera Matt and I was talking what why are you done it's starting to get cold it is yeah all right Matt do you have any advice for a guy starting out in business they're looking at doing something like you're doing what have you learned in the last year I've learned a lot just number one thing is make sure you get some but better equipment you know or get more than you think you need especially with the sawmill mm-hmm you know get get support equipment or buy something that can support your business or your operation and then the biggest thing if you're going to sell stuff get on Facebook and Instagram because that's huge it's the gram - yeah Instagram - especially for sawmilling because…