Yes.. well maybe.
You might be best served having a sawyer with a portable sawmill come out to your land and saw
the timber for you.
Lot's of guys will come out and cut on shares.
In other words they will saw a certain amount of timber and give you an agreed upon # of board feet then take an agreed upon number of board feet for themselves. If you have 40 acres of timber there should be more
than enough to be very selective in what is harvested.
Or you could just hire them for a certain amount per board foot.
If you want to tackle sawing the timber yourself then, you might want to buy a sawmill like you said. You will save money that way, but it is a lot of work.
For a sawmill in the $3k dollar range you would be looking at sawing around 2,000 bd ft per day, not counting all the logging work.
Most of our barns range between 7,000 board feet for the 20x30 sugar shack all the way to 25,000 board feet for the 40x60 Gambrel.
So time would be a factor as well.
They come with materials lists so you know exactly how many timbers you need to
cut and what sizes.
That way you can compare buying the timbers from a local sawmill to the cost of purchasing a sawmill and doing the cutting yourself.
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Aaron Esch
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