Splitting cut wood slabs percent of split

[Kemp]

I didn't think I would get top dollar to start out (100.00) but just a few bucks for wear and tare till I got some experience under my belt. I was also thinking of keeping jobs small to get more experience and learn about the saw. At least break even for the first few jobs. I hate going in the hole on projects..Don't stay in business long with negative balance. :D . So I will keep  :P, learning, and  :P till I finally get the saw settled in. I got the strangest feeling this is going to be a continuing learning experience and fun too.

I want to thank all of you for your time spent with me. I am starting to feel you all are like family trying to help. Thanks for the warm welcome and letting me pick your brains  bon_fire...you all rock.

[CCCLLC]

I rarely except an offer to be paid in shares of lumber from logs. I don't need any more stacks of lumber here at the shop. If, by exception, the logs are extremely nice, I tell them they get a third, I take a third and finally the mill takes a third for fuel, blades, maintenance and depreciation. But only if the logs are something nice. Rarely do I offer or except cutting on shares tho.

[WV Sawmiller]

CCCLLC,

   Good point about not typically cutting on shares but remember too in this case we have a new sawyer just starting out and looking to gain experience as hopefully he is making some money. One point we probably have not addressed enough is what the OP is going to do with the lumber. Without a need or market he will do like so many of us and find himself buried in stacks of air drying lumber scattered in every nook and cranny. It appears he has a potential offer on the table for cutting on shares and is looking for help to negotiate the best deal he can make for that option. Any suggestions on a better start up plan?

    I started with a 40 acre woodlot I could use for practice, sale and personal use and when I had cut enough of that I started cutting for friends and the public. I assume most of us have or had a reasonable source of logs before we started. I have noted here on the FF where some were diligently searching for sources and it has been interesting and informative to read those answers.

[Kemp]

I will quickly add, I would not want to pay 100$ an hour to someone who has not sawed a log.

Oh, I definitely understand that. We used to have a large sawmill here in town but shut down about 20 years ago. Wish I could find one of the employees to have coffee with

[Peter Drouin]

I have a customer drop off 15 - 8' logs. [First time I did this]  He wants some lumber for them. I told him 1/2 a pickup load of 8' stuff. He was supposed to stop buy in a week.
 That was last Aug.  : :laugh:. I bet he will show up this spring looking to fill his truck with lumber,
Because he has not come yet tells me he's up to something.  ;D
I did not cut the logs, There in a nice pile waiting for him to show. 
Because He's going to want lumber worth more than the logs I have.
Having the logs will keep my pat hand in good shape.   ;)
I don't know what I was smoking that day. But. it won't happen again. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

[Ianab]

Confession, I'm currently doing a job on "shares".   :D

But the wood is quite valuable, and neither of us are too worried about exact values. 

Landowner knows the Blackwood is valuable, but couldn't find anyone local to saw it. So it was about to be cut up for firewood.  :'( So anything he gets is a bonus to him. 

I'll run the mill for a day and take a cube of "log run" blackwood as payment, because I can either use it myself, or sell it for several thousand dollars. 



So I'll take that particular load as payment for sawing, and be happy with the deal. But don't expect the same deal on low grade pine that I have no use for. 

[WDH]

I sometimes cut on shares, but it is usually only on walnut which I always need.  I get 50%.