Originally Posted by Garell
Thank you to every one who replyed to my post. I appreciate it.
The indusrty is as I thought, well under paid for todays standards of living. However the tree industry can be just as bad.
I had thought of being a teacher as Wood butcher mentioned. However I just spent 8 weeks at a secondary school doing woodwork (very basic, just did it to use some of there machines for a project because i did not have them that big) and you should have seen what the kids do to tools, benches and there own work. It would break your heart. It did to me and the teaching idear went out the window.
Mick started labouring the turned to carpentry. Well that was my other thought. Do the building thing, I love the outdoors and building, best of both worlds. Its probably the next best thing.
I was going to buy a lucus mill and colaborate with the the tree industry and salvage timber that would normaly be turned into fire wood. But when you buy the mill which is $8000 to $12000 (of the top of my head) then you have to have some where to store the timber, thats buying a block of land, then a truck to cart it all, the cost is just to great, i have looked deep into it, if you had a boss that was willing to do it as apart of the buisness then yea but not on ya own, not with a family. If you won tats then go for it.
So a summery of all that is I think I might try a few builders and see how I go. There is a shortage of them I think.
Thanks again to every one for replying and your knowledge on the subject.
Regards Jamie