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Own one? No, but came close!

A few years ago, after our first big CA storm, I was on the verge of buying one. Just think - a portable sawmill, I could pull behind a vehicle and set up at the site of a fallen tree. Had a lot of correspondence with the Co. and was on the verge of buying, when the Mrs. put the stops to it. She said I was too old. Still one of my regrets! If given another chance at 75, I'd still give it a whirl.

I was seriously looking at the smaller LT10 model. The price with some extras was around $4,000. Still is. https://www.woodmizer.com/webgateway/OM ... model=lt10

Here's a video of it: http://www.woodmizer.com/us/sawmills/ma ... ction.aspx
No hydraulics to bother with. Manually operated from a safe distance.

I have a WoodMizer sawmill. It is a bigger one than the one pictured and is a hydraulic mill. I sawed for other people for the past ten years. If you have one you always find that you will keep a lot of wood with good ideas for use but it never happens. I have 40 acres of woods and have built my pole barn with lumber that I have sawed out and someday I would like to build a nice old fashoned workshop. The past couple of years I have sawed a lot of cherry that was dead and still standing in my woods. I have so much cherry lumber around now I don't know what I will ever do with it, but it beats using it for firewood. I no longer saw for a living and I miss it as I met some really nice people and it gives you a real good feeling when they show you something they made out of the lumber that you sawed. Wood Mizer is a great company and will bend over backward to help you out. The mill that I have you can saw between 1000 and 1500 bf a day working by yourself using support equitment. If you buy one you will have new friends coming out of the wood work wanting freebees. But to me it is just relaxing to saw and you never know what the wood will look like until it is sawed.

I'm on my secound WMZ mill. Made so much money with the first manual mill that I sold it for only 100 bucks cheaper than I bought it for(they really hold thier value) and got a bigger hydrolic mill. Have been milling for several years now cut well over 250 thousand BDFT.To really help you you need to ask some more pointed ???? Like what your intetions are , milling for yourslef part time or full time. How much support eq are you gonna have, by yourself , your age,and on and on and on. A few quick points;
-if your gonna do it big time get ALL the mill you can afford, manual mills are WAY to much work and dangerous for anything more than a hobby
-if your going big then expect to travel, you will most likely cut yourself outta work after some amount of time uless the trees are and logs are in good supply.
--get some suport eq if your can,,,, save your back,MILLING IS HARD WORK no matter what mill you get.
-if your just looking for your own use and have no reason to be in a hurry the smaller manual mills are great for making lumber
-you will need room for all the lumber to dry and store. I use metal roofing with bricks on top of the stickered stack. but you need room and there is waist wood and trimmings you will have to deal with.
-WDMZ is a great company and makes a great product with super support. call and talk to them look for a used mill that is in good shape to cut costs.
-if you can ,,,call WDMZ and find a sawyer near you and spend the day with
him
-call me if you like we can talk much easier then I can type shoot email to : [email]removeed for security reasons[/email] for ph #

[quote="grouser"]I'm on my secound WMZ mill. Made so much money with the first manual mill that I sold it for only 100 bucks cheaper than I bought it for(they really hold thier value) and got a bigger hydrolic mill. Have been milling for several years now cut well over 250 thousand BDFT.To really help you you need to ask some more pointed ???? Like what your intetions are , milling for yourslef part time or full time. How much support eq are you gonna have, by yourself , your age,and on and on and on. A few quick points]

Thanks for the info. I may take you up on the phone call in the future. I am just trying to absorb all the info right now.