Sourcing Logs and Marketing Lumber

products Facebook market play up okay where do you get all your wood from most the urban removals so kind of just random events I get a notification on Facebook or Craigslist or from a couple of tree guys that work with yeah I was gonna say didn't you kind of go out there talking to a bunch of tree guys and do you have to buy the raw one or do you get it for free years in a combination almost everything has been free so far I bought a few walnut logs yeah we're for a good deal and then I've also gone into people's yards and who have offered me their trees I pay a tree climber we work together knock it down and haul it out huh so the little thinking of how much research went into this thing man as far as the sawmill I was what I was looking for everyone for a while it was just a matter of what to get the stationary or portable and I thought well I'm gonna be in business it might as well have a portable mill okay why a lot of thought went into that just so I can go to customers so you actually what do you mean you actually could haul this to a customer site yeah and you would mill for them right on site right on site so yeah they just prep the logs for me have a helper and then this takes about half an hour to tear it down get it rated for towing and another half an hour to set it back up so is there a big demand for that there's there can be if you find the right people with the you know storm damage lots like farmers have trees come down like I want some lumber so there's there's people out there but most of my most of my work is at home home base Miller has you actually brought this out to a site so far and down that yeah twice oh really is so far how do you charge for that yeah so if I have to go to you it's $200 minimum that covers the setup and teardown fee that's the transport on board right okay that makes sense two hours and then it's 75 an hour after that 75 an hour yeah dude you're not charging enough you're not charging enough yeah I mean I'm gonna tell you right now just labor hours alone should be anywhere from fifty to sixty five dollars an hour plus your machine on top of that should be equal to that so like for a skid loader I get ninety five dollars now or minimum and I can get over ninety five dollars an hour then a skid loader is about the same price you know good to use skid loaders about the same price as a sawmill except the sawmill is a lot harder to find somebody qualified and owns one and has one available and has a portable once…