Got Cypress?

[Jolly]

A profitable niche business in Lafyette:

http://www.allwoodcompany.com/

Depending upon your skills and what wood is available in your area, might be a profitable home business...

[mrpink]

funny you should post this I was just going through idea's in my head on a business involving wood products. This gives me more things to think about

[texican]

I've got unlimited amounts of wood (woodmizer sawmill and two barns full of lumber), the skill to make the furniture.... alas, I have no desire having strangers coming to my place, and having to deal with them.

If you can get your wood for next to nothing (salvage, or a bandsaw millers' 'burn pile'), have the skill, and desire, it'd probably make some money... it's all dependent upon demand.

I never throw away flitches or slabs, from the sawmill, if they might have any potential use in the future. Before I had my own mill, I'd bring trailer loads of cypress, cedar, pine, and oak slabs and flitches home, to make benches and tables.

[Jolly]

Originally Posted by texican

I've got unlimited amounts of wood (woodmizer sawmill and two barns full of lumber), the skill to make the furniture.... alas, I have no desire having strangers coming to my place, and having to deal with them.

If you can get your wood for next to nothing (salvage, or a bandsaw millers' 'burn pile'), have the skill, and desire, it'd probably make some money... it's all dependent upon demand.

I never throw away flitches or slabs, from the sawmill, if they might have any potential use in the future. Before I had my own mill, I'd bring trailer loads of cypress, cedar, pine, and oak slabs and flitches home, to make benches and tables.

One of my friends who owns a bandsaw mill cuts his hardwood slabs just a bit thick...he also has a thriving firewood business.