I'm just starting out in the sawer trade. I'm trying to take advantage of these down trees in my area of Florida. Love watching and learning from your videos,
I do the same thing with hay. I make bales the way my customers like, and they sell. Great advice. Right now I just cut to order, makes things easier. Great content, keep it coming
A nice thing about being retired: I get to make what I want to make. If it doesn't sell I lower the price, keep it for myself, or use it for firewood. But yeah, running a business is different.
Yes, we spend lots of money on logs and equipment, and not selling what we make is not an option. We have to make money, everythngin we do cost money so need to make some.
Chip is a big ball of love and potential energy. You gave the best advice any business owner could hear. It's not what you want to sell but what your customers wants to buy. Another great video Robert. Best wishes from your L.A. Subscriber. I'm still looking forward coming up to shop at your sawmill.
This video is key. It took me awhile to convince the owner of the sawmill I run my business off of that you can’t just saw 6x6 and 4x4. He told me you lose money per cut… I asked if it was better to make less money or no money at all? This video validates everything I’ve been doing. Thanks!
Any newbee business owner says I wanna do what I like just described a Hobby. As the Professor says make what sells. That's a business. Smart start ups do a lot of market research to find the valuable niches for small shop gold. A very entertaining film illustrating the value of market research is the 1987 film Baby Boom about pre startup and post startup work. The Professor talks straight arrow to the point.
good video and job you have to cut what sells. at lease with slabs you can cut what you need out of them. i think chip is in training for a groverment job, take care, be safe and well.
I have had to refine slabs before to sell them as well . That re saw is a beast , I didn't know that they made them to re saw over 2 inch thick stuff . Nice saw .
I try to convince a friend that it matters more to make what customers want. If you get lucky and it coincides with your own interests, great. But he has interests that almost nobody else does.
Hello Robert. I am sawing 12 inch wide boards to cover the sides of a 80x60 open air shed with steel trusses. What is your opinion about scorching the boards before i put them in a board and batten pattern. I'm located in North central, Alabama where all kinds of wood destroyers thrive. Is this method worth my time or not. Thanks for your steps above and beyond about understanding how to get the most out of a raw material. Keep up the info we cannot get on other channels..
I don’t know, people say it helps, but the best way to keep boring bugs and flying carpenter bees our of wood is using poplar. It’s is very bug resistant, maybe as good as walnut.
I came from sawing our own woodworking lumber, to mobile and contract sawing BIG hardwood with chainsaws to our current Forestry business and bandmill. When I bought the bandmill I said "I'm going to be the rough sawn pine king of Cape Cod. All the logs are free and you need to drive 45 minutes, one way to the nearest rough sawn sawmill. I start cutting and advertising, my phone blows up and ALMOST EVERYONE wants HUGE hardwood slabs or ship builder, monster, impossible white oak (unless you steal it from the Navy base in Indiana). I've actually had to chainsaw slab some wood again! Now, I do have every single kind of hardwood in stock, but I WANTED TO GET AWAY FROM THAT! Funny thing is, just today some guy shows up and buys out ALL of my softwood 1x stock, all widths, to work on the inside of his cabin, I finish a 1000 board foot 1x6x96 order and someone calls me for another 300 board foot of pine at 9/16 x 3 3/8 x (6,7,8"). Christ, I gotta build a kiln now for the White Oak! It's just crazy.
Sure, it's our price list, we have about 50 species and cuts in stock. If it's on our price list, we have some in inventory. www.hobbyhardwoodalabama.com/price-list.html
Baker Products Edger. That's a nice machine. I couldn't get a good look at the power plant, but it appears to be a 15 Hp 3 Ø electric motor. If so, what is the voltage from your diesel generator 240 or 480 Vac?
Good observation, but like most things we have, it is a special capability, full custom build by Baker and they now call it the Hobby Hardwood model and sell it as a standard product. 20 hp 3 phase, double conveyer, custom length, and was specifically designed to edge smooth surface dry planed wood (very hard to do on an edger) as well as green wood off the mill. It even has custom blades that are now sold as a standard products.
This is excellent content. Thank you. Only in one area did I not follow your advice so far and that the name of my business…Rehl Good Wood LLC. My last name is pronounced “Real”
The latest thing my contractor wanted was 2.25" finished x 6" x9' quarter or rift walnut to make door styles and rails without having to do a glue up. The contractor's customer is my mom. I had to cut them out of slabs I had. Now I'm going to mill some walnut and some Ash oversized from that so they'll finish at that. I'd make some White oak ones if I had the logs. Going to do this now so that in a year I'll have finished kD material available. I might even have to RRQS to get the material. Brad_bb
Yep, I used to hand hew mantles from logs to sell them. Good money and tough work. That's where the term "hack" came from, a guy who was good enough to hack out railroad crossties but wasn't good enough to cut out log homes and mantles and stuff.
@@carterruff3657 I don’t know, I picked it up the other day and all of a sudden my back and shoulders started hurting. Maybe… it would be kind of cool.
Demand is at an all time high for live edge. The problem is the amount of people who have mills has drastically gone up in the last 5 years. Anyone can cut live edge. But quality dimensional lumber is much more difficult to produce
“slabs are ok ‘til you can’t sell ‘em” Wonderful advice and another great video, thanks, Robert!
Thanks. I hate slabs, my planer hates them, my back hates them and my bank account loves them….sometimes….
I love chip and his constant enthusiasm!!😅😅😅😅
He is a fireball of energy!
I'm just starting out in the sawer trade. I'm trying to take advantage of these down trees in my area of Florida.
Love watching and learning from your videos,
You can do it and thanks for commenting!
Chip is my new hero. I wanna live like Chip.
Me too!
I do the same thing with hay. I make bales the way my customers like, and they sell. Great advice.
Right now I just cut to order, makes things easier.
Great content, keep it coming
Sounds great!
A nice thing about being retired: I get to make what I want to make. If it doesn't sell I lower the price, keep it for myself, or use it for firewood.
But yeah, running a business is different.
Yes, we spend lots of money on logs and equipment, and not selling what we make is not an option. We have to make money, everythngin we do cost money so need to make some.
Nice video Yoda😂, I currently don’t have a mill waiting to afford at least a 40 wide
I had an LT40, it's a greta mill.
Chip is so relaxed people think it's easy running a sawmill and only cutting one way
Yes, sawmilling is easy.....NOT
Chip is a big ball of love and potential energy. You gave the best advice any business owner could hear. It's not what you want to sell but what your customers wants to buy. Another great video Robert. Best wishes from your L.A. Subscriber. I'm still looking forward coming up to shop at your sawmill.
Poor old Chip he's so over worked and under Loved
Thanks! Lots of folks mix up what is fun and what makes money. Even the best guitar player still has to sell songs people want to buy.
Our goal is to build a business just like you Robert! You and you're wife are a great team!
Thanks!
Like the way you keep it real. 👍
Always!
This video is key. It took me awhile to convince the owner of the sawmill I run my business off of that you can’t just saw 6x6 and 4x4. He told me you lose money per cut… I asked if it was better to make less money or no money at all? This video validates everything I’ve been doing. Thanks!
Thanks for watching!
Bought some hard maple from you guys to build kitchen cabinets and they are coming along very well.
That’s great to hear!
Any newbee business owner says I wanna do what I like just described a Hobby. As the Professor says make what sells. That's a business. Smart start ups do a lot of market research to find the valuable niches for small shop gold. A very entertaining film illustrating the value of market research is the 1987 film Baby Boom about pre startup and post startup work. The Professor talks straight arrow to the point.
Thanks! You are correct, I try to film the real world, from a real business standpoint.
Learning so much from you, great video, thanks....
Glad to hear it!
Makes perfectly good sense.
Thanks!
This advice is timely for me. Thank you for the video.
You're welcome!
Interesting Content!
Thanks!
Great video Mr. professor 😮, so true that the customer is always what you need to satisfy . Really good helper/wife .
Yes, they have the money I am trying to get, so I need to give them a reason to give it to me. Yes, Martha is a huge part of our success.
That Baker (I think) edger is pretty impressive!
It does a great job!
good video and job you have to cut what sells. at lease with slabs you can cut what you need out of them. i think chip is in training for a groverment job, take care, be safe and well.
Thanks!
I have had to refine slabs before to sell them as well . That re saw is a beast , I didn't know that they made them to re saw over 2 inch thick stuff . Nice saw .
It'll do 3" green red oak at a running pace. It's a beast.
Thanks Robert for another great video!
Very welcome
I try to convince a friend that it matters more to make what customers want. If you get lucky and it coincides with your own interests, great. But he has interests that almost nobody else does.
Can’t sell what people don’t want to buy.
Sage advice Robert!
Thanks!
Thanks Robert, another great video!
Very welcome
Valuable information.
Glad it was helpful!
Great stuff. I use my Woodmaster ripper to edge down boards from my sawmill but that edger you have makes mine look like a little toy.
Thanks!
nice fixing what don't sell
Thanks!
Hello Robert. I am sawing 12 inch wide boards to cover the sides of a 80x60 open air shed with steel trusses. What is your opinion about scorching the boards before i put them in a board and batten pattern. I'm located in North central, Alabama where all kinds of wood destroyers thrive. Is this method worth my time or not. Thanks for your steps above and beyond about understanding how to get the most out of a raw material. Keep up the info we cannot get on other channels..
I don’t know, people say it helps, but the best way to keep boring bugs and flying carpenter bees our of wood is using poplar. It’s is very bug resistant, maybe as good as walnut.
I came from sawing our own woodworking lumber, to mobile and contract sawing BIG hardwood with chainsaws to our current Forestry business and bandmill. When I bought the bandmill I said "I'm going to be the rough sawn pine king of Cape Cod. All the logs are free and you need to drive 45 minutes, one way to the nearest rough sawn sawmill. I start cutting and advertising, my phone blows up and ALMOST EVERYONE wants HUGE hardwood slabs or ship builder, monster, impossible white oak (unless you steal it from the Navy base in Indiana). I've actually had to chainsaw slab some wood again! Now, I do have every single kind of hardwood in stock, but I WANTED TO GET AWAY FROM THAT! Funny thing is, just today some guy shows up and buys out ALL of my softwood 1x stock, all widths, to work on the inside of his cabin, I finish a 1000 board foot 1x6x96 order and someone calls me for another 300 board foot of pine at 9/16 x 3 3/8 x (6,7,8"). Christ, I gotta build a kiln now for the White Oak! It's just crazy.
That's great!
Roll Tide! Should be a great game against North Carolina.
Big game coming up.
What is your preferred log length for most hard woods?
8 foot, 10 or 16 foot long. Nobody buys 12 or 14 foot boards.
Do you have an inventory online page?
Sure, it's our price list, we have about 50 species and cuts in stock. If it's on our price list, we have some in inventory.
www.hobbyhardwoodalabama.com/price-list.html
What is the most common length of boards you cut?
8 and 10 foot long.
Baker Products Edger. That's a nice machine. I couldn't get a good look at the power plant, but it appears to be a 15 Hp 3 Ø electric motor. If so, what is the voltage from your diesel generator 240 or 480 Vac?
Good observation, but like most things we have, it is a special capability, full custom build by Baker and they now call it the Hobby Hardwood model and sell it as a standard product. 20 hp 3 phase, double conveyer, custom length, and was specifically designed to edge smooth surface dry planed wood (very hard to do on an edger) as well as green wood off the mill. It even has custom blades that are now sold as a standard products.
Wow !! Now I am really impressed. Thanks...@@HobbyHardwoodAlabama
This is excellent content. Thank you. Only in one area did I not follow your advice so far and that the name of my business…Rehl Good Wood LLC. My last name is pronounced “Real”
Gotta listen to the Professor - I’m following the hardwood grading though!
The latest thing my contractor wanted was 2.25" finished x 6" x9' quarter or rift walnut to make door styles and rails without having to do a glue up. The contractor's customer is my mom. I had to cut them out of slabs I had. Now I'm going to mill some walnut and some Ash oversized from that so they'll finish at that. I'd make some White oak ones if I had the logs. Going to do this now so that in a year I'll have finished kD material available. I might even have to RRQS to get the material. Brad_bb
Slabs are good source of “other products.”
Chip wants to go fishing
Going this afternoon!
You don't really have a broad axe, do you?
Yep, I used to hand hew mantles from logs to sell them. Good money and tough work. That's where the term "hack" came from, a guy who was good enough to hack out railroad crossties but wasn't good enough to cut out log homes and mantles and stuff.
@@HobbyHardwoodAlabama Well, I'll be dipped. Next video?
@@carterruff3657 I don’t know, I picked it up the other day and all of a sudden my back and shoulders started hurting. Maybe… it would be kind of cool.
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks!
Live edge slabs are gonna be a thing of the past. Oh sir can you resaw this slab for me. Demand is going away
Demand is at an all time high for live edge. The problem is the amount of people who have mills has drastically gone up in the last 5 years. Anyone can cut live edge. But quality dimensional lumber is much more difficult to produce
Matt Cremona in stillwater Minn built his own mill and can cut 5 ft wide. Calls it the slab master @
I hope so.
Yes, you are correct.
Chip has a rough life.
Yes he does.