Wood dealer

Are you thinking about going to land owners and purchasing their timber, then having the land logged and selling logs to a mill? If you have to ask these questions, you don't know enough about it to start. You need to know timber and logging to be successful. These connections are made through years of being in the industry.

 

In my area, logging is a huge industry. It is also a slow starvation, very few do well in it.
The wood buyers ( huge mills taking about a hundred loads a day ) often will front the $$$$ to start an experienced woodsman, but then they dictate the rules for the logger, often putting them in the worst places to produce wood.
Unless you are very knowledgeable in logging already , stay out. Learn the business first.

 

Up in Western Canada it used to be you needed to buy a union job in order to haul. Non-union guys would get the scraps no one else wanted (but if a union truck found himself out of work, the scabs went home). Not sure how it works now though.