This is just me introducing myself to this great site. I figured I had sat in the background long enough that I should come out and hopefully get some questions answered.
a little about myself is that I am in my third year of law school hoping to graduate in may of 2006 an realized I love the outside too much to be cooped up in an office all day. so as my name states I have some newer goals right now. One is to be a lawyer for the money to pay student debts the other is to be a sawyer be outside and do something I think I will love.
I do not have any equipment as of yet just a lot of desire and a year of planning before I can even try and move toward a part time sawing operation.
thank you to all who have posted information on this site as it is a phenominal database and it has be a real Godsend in educating me.
Welcome to the FF lawyer_sawyer
Jeff run hide all the wise cracks we've made about dem lawyers. :D
Welcome to FF lawer_sawyer.
Welcome to the Forestry Forum, lawyer-sawyer. What an unlikely combination! :)
Mark
Man, if only the Boss wasn't lookin. ::) ::) ;D :D :D :D
Welcome to the Forum, lawyer-sawyer. 8) ;) :D :D
welcome
must admit I though at first you was gonna set up a mill to cut lawyers into 4/4 slices.
Welcome Lawyer-sawyer.
Tree owners, loggers and foresters need lawyers too. :)
Thanks for the welcomes so far.
I hope sometime soon to start rounding out the knowledge I think I will need to start a part time sawmilling business by asking questions so beware :D
and yes i do agree that it is an odd combination of skills but as the saying goes you can take the boy out of the country but you can't take the country out of the boy.
thanks again
I've met a couple of sawmillers in the AA area. I'm in Lansing. Woodmizer said that they've sold about 100 mills within a 100 mile radius of me and i believe it! ITs amazing. Course, most of those sit in rich guys barns, but there is a few of us. If you want to see a small operation you can come on up. I may be selling my new woodmizer LT-40 when i finish my timber frame home and concentrating on a big kiln operation so let me know if you might want one of those!
KP
lawyer-sawyer, that's got a ring to it ain't it! ;D
Welcome to the FF and to the real world!!!!!!!!
8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
Was at a Christmas Party throwed by the hospital where my wife is a PT. She intoduced me to some Doctors and told them I was a sawyer. One says "That's great!" "Where did you go to law school?" ::) I had to explain that I was a Sawyer not a Lawyer and what it was I really did. He then ask "Where you go to school to learn that?" I tell him the University of HK and that I now work with a group who help teach it on the internet. Doc thought I was interesting. ??? ???
Welcome lawyer-sawyer from the ARKANSAWYER and like Tom said you may want to specialize in timber and lumber litagations as we could use some special help some times.
1'
Welcome aboard! I am not too far away so if you would like to stop by sometime feel free. I am in Indiana about 2 miles from Ohio and about 7 from Michigan and about 2 hours from you.
Lots of good info here.
Dewey
Welcome aboard Lawyer-Sawyer! I bet the courts burn you out before the milling business does.
Welcome Lawyer-Sawyer. It took me 8 years to get through school (college and grad school) and I walked away with a masters in accounting only to learn that I really didn't like paperwork and being cooped up in an office. (slow learner :P) Nothing like being outdoors. There are a bunch of great guys here and lots of knowledge and best of all, they are all willing to share it freely.
Welcome Lawyer-Sawyer you'll find out ya fit right in here. Da Boss has one of the best forums on the web. :)
Hola,
You know, when I was in high school my dream job was to be a forest ranger. Be in the outdoors, etc. However, I took a turn down the darkside - software development. Now I am an owner of a reforestation project in Costa Rica.
The funny thing is I started the project here and it was about a year later I remember that being involved in forest was my dream job. Hey, it had been nearly 30 years!
Just as much fun as I thought it would be.... But I need to go fishing more. Already warned everyone that I am going to be missing in action more often.
WELCOME
smiley_big-grin2
thank you again for the warm welcome. after this week when my last final for this year is over I will hopefully be able to ask some questions about how to go about starting a business that is profitable enough to sustain itself on a part time time schedule so that once my student loans are paid off I could be doing this full time.
it never ceases to amaze me the knowledge you can gain from this site just reading through posts and personal experieinces. this is a great site with great members and hope it stays around a long time
Howdy L_S,
Welcome to the greatest little site in the world. Glad to have you here.
Quote from: woodmills1 on May 09, 2005, 06:59:57 AM
must admit I though at first you was gonna set up a mill to cut lawyers into 4/4 slices.
No doubt there would be pretty good money in doin' this. Problem would be to avaid gettin' caught. ;D
Norm
Quote from: ARKANSAWYER on May 09, 2005, 08:55:55 AM
I tell him the University of HK and that I now work with a group who help teach it on the internet. Doc thought I was interesting. ??? ???
Now that's FUNNY! :D Without a doubt, Arky, you're a tenured perfessor at Forestry Forum University! ;)
Welcome, Lawyer-Sawyer. I'm in Michigan too. My mill's in Eaton Rapids, not too far from Ann Arbor, but it still needs a little TLC before she's making sawdust again. When I have it up and running, I'll let you know, though I'm still a freshman at FFU myself.
Hmm...what's the mascot for the FFU? I'd say we're the Lumberjacks, or the Timbermen, or the Woodsmen...
Oh wait...we already have a mascot, don't we? It's the Furby! :D
Welcome, lawyer_sawyer. Many of us on this site combine 40 hour/week drudgery with wood therapy to keep sane. You are going to like it here :)
:)Welcome :)
I am another one who works inside so I can play outside.
If the job that makes you money can support the job that makes you happy - you got balance ???
At last, FREE legal advice :D :D :D :D
Welcome, you'll have a ball here
Now we got Engineers and Firefighters and Arborists and Chemists and, well about everything else...but I think you're the first, at least to admit, LAWYER!!
Welcome. You sure could come in handy....
CAPTAIN
A big old welcome from down under L_S you wont find a better site than this one. (regardless of if your q's are answered or not :D) It is the best place to be, after running the mill of course!!
Also looks like you better let folkes know what you are specialising in, otherwise you'll have more personal messages than Da Boss ;D :D ;)
Welcome to FF. We need a lawyer for some friendly FREE advise. I'll help you any way I can. WELCOME ABOARD. 8) 8) Any advise I give will always be free cause I know what it's worth. 8) 8)
send lawyers guns and lumber............................ :D
WHOOPS!
Welcome to the forum L_S...
Network Manager/Admin here, Takes all kinds amongst us part-timers.
By the way. Once you get your practice and sawmill running you're going to need some real good investment advice on what to do with all yer money. :)
I'm just the man you're gonna want to talk too! ;D
8) 8) 8)
I pass on my welcome as well. :)
Welcome to the neighborhood 8) - do you plan to stay in A2 area after graduation?
woodmills,
lumber = money
I think you are right on it :D
man it has been great seeing the response. sorry I haven't been exactly active lately but it has been a little hectic getting exams out of the way and I just found some room to breathe.
MSU_Keith
I am not planning on staying in the Ann Arbor area. I am attempting to get a job this summer in the GR area and hopefully that would lead to something full time after I graduate next May. Most of my family is up in the Newaygo County area and points north.
Paschale:
thank you very much for the offer I am going to be trying to get to some mills when they are running ot see what it is like. I have been around stationery mills and would like to see how portable mills even if stationery work.
thanks for the welcome
it is nice when dealing with an industry that often sees the ends justifying the means that there are still a ton of great people out there. and a lot of them here
Also:
Thanks Keith for the offer, When I know what my summer is like I will definitely try to get ahold of you to come see your operation. I know I have a lot to learn.
Dewwood
If I am down that way I would love to stop by and learn what I could from you. thank you for the offer.
everybody have a great morning
If ya get a job in GR this summer, drop me a line! ;)
lawyer_sawyer, Welcome to the forum and good luck in your goals in life. Tom
The party of the first, herein known as Brad S., extends greetings and salutations to the party of the second, herein known as Lawyer-Sawyer, and wishes or otherwise hopes for success and prosperity vis a vie good luck with your chosen career and/or profession. The party of the fist shall not be held liable should the party of the second suffer financial disparity should the party of the second pursue expressed saw milling desires. smiley_contract
One of my more consistent log suppliers is taking the route opposite of yours. He logged for 20 years and now is studying law. There will be times when my calls won't be returned and I find out later that he was studying for his Barr exam. He's missed twice by a hair, hoping 3rd times a charm.
He claims if he knew then what he knows now about liability issues, he would have never touched a chainsaw or cut down a single tree! :D