Quitting Your Day Job: Making Portable Sawmills Work For You

If you're sick of your day job, you may need to find something that you really enjoy, but can still make money at.  Well, who doesn't enjoy being in the great outdoors?  That's part of what makes being a sawyer fun, as well as lucrative.

Few people know that better than a sawyer by the name of Scott Irvin.  He had been in the papermill business for 17 years when he switched to the sawmill business by getting himself two portable sawmills.  With some employees and some help from his wife, Scott quickly found himself enjoying being his own boss and being in the same business that his father was in before him.

It wasn't always that way, however.  For the first two years that Scott was in sawmilling he was also still working his papermill job.  It took him a lot of time and effort to get his sawmilling business to really thrive and it wasn't at all the same as when his father ran things.

You see, in order to be a portable sawmill user, you have to learn to adapt to changing markets.  Scott has done exactly that.  He cuts both pallet stock and rail ties.  He also cuts low-grade lumber, material for board road and more.  Many other sawyers are just as versatile and adaptable as Scott is.

So, do you want to make portable sawmills work for you, just like Scott has?  If so, you need to learn as much as you can about the sawmilling process and pick the portable sawmill (or combination of portable sawmills) that works best for you.  Click here to get started down the road to a new and more enjoyable portable sawmill career path.