Sawmill Side Hustle: $536/hr in 2022 - Is it Still Worth It? See Middle of Video and Description
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- čas přidán 4. 09. 2024
- We had an ideal situation when cutting lumber on Memorial Day weekend this past year. My customer and his wife had many large logs neatly arranged in a nice logging deck, they had a Kubota KX040-4 mini excavator with a thumb, the weather was great, and best of all we really worked well as a team.
We averaged over 330 board feet per hour! We worked a total of 13 hours over two days and cut 93 2x4x12s, 52 2x6x12s, 170 2x8x12s, 12 4x4x12s, 10 1x6x12s and numerous 1x4x12s and 2x2x12s which we used as stickers. During Memorial Day weekend 2022 the prices of lumber were as follows: 2x4x12s $14 each, 2x6x12s $20 each, and 2x8x12s $24 each. The estimated price of 4x4x12 was $28 and 1x6x12s were $10 gives us total production of $6968 in 13 hours. (We did not include the 1x4x12s and 2x2x12s in these calculations) This shows that we produced lumber at a rate of $536/hr. at the then current prices.
Currently in April 2023 lumber prices are VERY LOW and this would change the figures DRAMATICALLY. When making decisions about a Sawmill Side Hustle please keep these price fluctuations in mind. Price out the wood in the description above in your local area to see what is possible. I often use the following advertising slogan to get customers to think about it: "Don't Burn your Timber or sell it as Cord wood, Make Lumber Instead!"
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Always nice to watch a new Lucas Mill video. I agree with you, that lining up and securing the logs is what takes time - cutting is the fun part....
Thanks for your comments Torsten, I especially love cutting the larger sized logs where you can rip a lot of lumber in a single pass. On these 24 inch logs we had a couple side by side and pulled 18 2x8x12s before we had to adjust the rails again to the next level. What fun, $400+ of lumber in 20 minutes.
just bought the 10/30 Lucas. Yet to get cutting but getting organised now. Loved your vid but found the music a little loud for your speaking. Keep them coming. Many thanks
Noted! Thank you for your feed back and have fun with the mill, I am sure you will be pleased with it!
Speeding up the squaring up process- if you had another piece of dimensional lumber laid across the two skids for the logs to roll on and attached only by a hole with a peg run into it loosely, it would be like a speed bump that would help get a rough positioning down.
I like that idea, the positioning of the logs seems like the slowest part.
What’s the max width ?
Slowest part is the drying
For sure, but most people use Douglass Fir green, as they don't want to wait for the drying and they don't shrink much and don't warp once nailed in place. Thanks for your comments!
Check in the Video Description to get the Lumber Value Calculations.