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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Oct 2, 2007, at 7:21 PM, Don Bowen KI6DIU wrote:

> At 10/2/2007, you wrote:
> > My balance is toward getting one. After the dollar investment, it
> > needs to produce a substantial amount of usable wood. Serious
> > physical work, not just play. Unless one is just doing it for film.
>
> It would be hard to justify when lumber can be had as cheap as it  
> is there.

There is another factor. With a personal sawmill one can cut large  
stuff, like four by sixes, six by eights and larger, that in a lumber  
yard would be expensive.

I also contemplate squaring one or two side of a log to use as  
interior posts or corner posts. But those cuts are most economically  
made with a chainsaw mill.