Blog Post One: The Assembly

First of all huge thanks to Roger Hammers for helping assemble this beast. Literally, without you, this would not have happened.

Man, this is not for the faint of heart. Something like running a small mill business takes a lot of guts and grit. It also takes the support of family and friends and especially one heck of an awesome loving supporting wife! Holly and I had saved some extra money and wanted to be fruitful with it, make it multiply. I wanted to put it in the market, she said no! First, it was 75K in the midst of covid ready for a full-tilt into the e-trade account, that got shot down, but compromised with 5K and 9 months of a trial. Well after time passed we were up to 6.5K, so pretty good return…..I went back to the ol lady and said “hey babe, you look good in them jeans, look at how well I did, let’s put all the hay in the basket!” She said no, so instead we bought a sawmill.

LOL, that’s actually how it went. First, we had a guy out to the family farm to mill for us so we could see firsthand how this operation goes down. Then I did a few days of free labor with a friend at his stationary mill and gained some more wisdom. Finally, we watched dozens of youtube videos and scoped out our options. Norwood had a great mill, the LM29 that I had my sights on, but as we were getting serious they launched their lm29V2 aka the LM30. The new lM30 was all the upgrades and learned mistakes from the older version, so that seemed like a great get. After waiting a few months to get all the parts and finagling the assembly we had our mill up and running!