[AT] Swamp loggers. A log skidder is a tractor isn't it?

[charliehill]

John the only market for a small sawmill is specialty wood of some sort. 
Something you can't buy at lowes like cypress or juniper or walnut.
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From: "John Hall" <jthall at worldnet.att.net>
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> It's all about making money. I've noticed a lot of folks trying to sell
> firewood on Craigslist. When you add up the cost of a truck, splitter, and 
> a
> chainsaw, these guys are working for peanuts. Its got to be hard to 
> compete
> against the commercial processors.
>
> Back in the '90's there were still a few farmer sized sawmills around 
> here.
> I don't know of any still running. They gave way to band saw mills and it
> seems those have fallen to the big lumber stores. I priced adding on to a
> farm shed 2 years ago and I could go buy dressed lumber at the big box 
> store
> a whole lot cheaper than I could cut down a couple trees and have it sawn
> for me.
>
> John
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>> There is another small local logging picking up here that I don't
>> really like. That is the commercial firewood business. They are buying
>> these firewood processors and then cutting really nice logs and
>> feeding them into the firewood processors. Many of them just leave the
>> tops laying. I would really rather see the good logs going into lumber
>> and the tops used for firewood.
>>
>> http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.indgravel.com/emeditimages/380-1.JPG&imgrefurl=http://www.indgravel.com/english/processor.html&usg=__jYFLkZeBtBFRJC8rlkSLoND1ZHY=&h=984&w=1500&sz=802&hl=en&start=5&um=1&tbnid=v8BYONpfEEgs7M:&tbnh=98&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dfirewood%2Bprocessor%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Have you hugged your horses today?
>>
>> Francis Robinson
>> aka "farmer"
>> Central Indiana USA
>> robinson46176 at gmail.com
>>
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