It's started??

[Southside]

I would say someone simply made some money. My 35 would be down the road in a minute if I thought I could get $35K for it. 

[Crossroads]

I have people trying to buy my Lt40 and my new mill is still a year out. 

[Bruno of NH]

Down here there are many more people offering wood for sale.   Lots of slabs, all green.  Everyone thinks that they can buy a sawmill and make money.  Wait till that green slab inventory builds up and there is no space in the backyard to stack or store them.   Oh, but sawing is fun  .

I am pretty easygoing and willing to share and help people.  But, that can come back to bite you. There have been several people that told me one thing but did another after I shared my hard won experience and best practices with them so that in essence what I did was help set up a competitor that now undercuts me.  

Now everybody and their brother has a sawmill around here selling green slabs cheap.  We will see how long that lasts.  

When I was contacting, I called it training the competition. 
I out lasted most of them and some always came back to work as subcontractors. 
The sawmill is lots of work most aren't cut out for it.

[barbender]

Yeah most don't have a clue of the physical work involved with a sawmill if they haven't worked around one before. 

[Bruno of NH]

Running a sawmill business is a commitment. I learned from experience  :D
Finding logs
Making connections 
Learning how to saw
Marketing 
Making a great product with out lowering your standards or price to match what others doing the same thing are charging. 
Don't put all your eggs in one .99 cent egg Mcmuffen. 

[WV Sawmiller]

Bruno,

   Sorry to burst your bubble but I bought my wife an egg McMuffin this morning and is was $3.49. Don't know where you're finding one for $.99. ;)

[Bruno of NH]

Howard
I haven't only left the sawmill/house once in 13 months  :D

[GAB]

Based on entries 29, 30, &31, and if my stinking thinking is correct.
[(3.49/0.99) -1] (12/13) = 2.331 or inflation of 233%+ per year. 
Guvamint is saying 8.5%.
Someone,please explain to me where I'm messing up.
GAB

[btulloh]

Side note - the Sawmill Exchange website no longer exists. ??  Their FB page is still up, but doesn't appear to be active. 

[melezefarmer]

Side note - the Sawmill Exchange website no longer exists. ??  Their FB page is still up, but doesn't appear to be active.

Looks like they forgot to renew their domain name or haven't updated their DNS server. :

whois sawmillexchange.com
Domain Name: SAWMILLEXCHANGE.COM
Registry Domain ID: 1450194_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.register.com
Registrar URL: http://www.register.com
Updated Date: 2022-07-06T16:50:37Z
Creation Date: 1998-06-19T04:00:00Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2025-06-18T04:00:00Z
Registrar: Register.com, Inc.

[Tom King]

It was hydraulic, and looked like all the options, including debarker, a bunch of blades, and a pretty long list of other stuff.  I'm not sure it was over retail.  Pictures of everything looked new.  Maybe he was one of the first that realized it was a good time to move it.

I wonder how many of these we'll see until the prices start to come down.

[Magicman]

Well, Sawmill Exchange has gone almost 2 years without any used sawmills for sale.  Gotta have sawmills listed before they can make a sales commission.

Sad.  I bought my sawmill through Sawmill Exchange 20 years ago.  

[beenthere]

Same "Sawmill Exchange" showing up at the bottom of each "page" here?

[Magicman]

But did you try the link?

[rusticretreater]

I saw one on craigslist a few days ago, Hagerstown Maryland. Timber harvester 30tl19 band mill fully hydraulic. Log turner comes with a inline debarker. $18,500

[Walnut Beast]

I keep hearing about all the amazing deals out there. Now let's back it up and hear about the amazingly cheap deal you got on a Woodmizer LT 70 or Timberking 2220. I'll have my popcorn waiting and watching 😂 

[sealark37]

My crystal ball says that mill manufacturers will be laying off help next year.

[DanMc]

This thread is giving me hope.  Maybe my LT35HD will arrive earlier than projected. 

[Walnut Beast]

You are going to wish you would have sold that sawmill before the prices go to rock bottom 😂😂

 

[Southside]

That's insane

[Dave Shepard]

And the likelihood that they don't get many applicants is more insane.

[brianJ]

You are going to wish you would have sold that sawmill before the prices go to rock bottom 😂😂

I bet it is one of them "UP TO"  and most people are getting in the mid teens.    

[Resonator]

No wonder them egg Mcmuffin's are gettin' so pricey...

[thecfarm]

I hope that is in a state that $21 is the $14 that they pay here in Maine.

[ladylake]

  With the prices nowdays it would be really hard to make it at $14 a hour.  Steve