“Just want to give a shout out to the people at TimberKing. I needed some parts for my 1220 & the parts guy Mike was very efficient & had all my questions answered & processed my credit card within 8 minutes. That was including emailing me a picture of all the different measuring scale magnets so I could choose one. My mill may be the cheapest one they make but it has made me money day after day for 8 years.” — Chris Cox post on a “TimberKing Owner” Facebook forum
My TimberKing sawmill pays for itself every two months
I’m just a guy who bought a mill and made money off it just by piddling around. I work three or four days a week, that’s it. I can make $1,000 a month to buy my ‘big boy’s toys. First month, I made $6,000. I don’t see how you can’t make money. If you’re self-motivated you can make it work.
I’m a fourth-generation carpenter and home builder. Seven years ago, I quit doing carpentry for medical reasons and bought a TimberKing 1220 sawmill. I built a horse barn and people liked it. I started building and selling horse barns, cabins, and sheds. I do it right from my home.
I do it so I can buy my ‘big boys’ toys.
I don’t really do this for a job; it’s more so I can just buy the things I want. For example, I just bought a $30,000 Kubota tractor and an $1,800 landscape rake. I bought our kids jet skis. My TimberKing paid for everything outright.
We own 100 acres of woodland and I cut white oak, hickory, pine and more. The hardwoods are heavy so my sheds weighed a lot. So I started building them of pine. People don’t seem to care whether they’re oak or pine.
Each month, I make and sell a couple of horse shelters or cabins, plus chicken coops. Some of these are as large as 12 x 16 or 12 x 20 with 8’ sidewalls. I advertise on Facebook Marketplace and deliver them on my 24’ trailer.
6 days work = $2,000 profit
I recently built two 6 x 8’ coops and sold them for $1,300 each. I paid $350 for the coops’ hardware and windows. I ended up with about $2,000 profit on two coops. This month, I’m making six chicken coops. I can mill the wood and build one coop in three days.
We bought and renovated a country church next door. I milled all the wood for it – 3,000 square feet of hardwood flooring and board-and-batten siding. I sawed the oak flooring, dried it in a kiln I built, and planed it with my Woodmaster Molder/Planer. I used the planer to build our cabinets, too. That machine’s worth its weight in gold!
If anything went wrong…
I looked at Wood-Mizer sawmills that have the cantilevered cutting heads attached on only one side of the mill. I figured if anything ever went wrong with a Wood-Mizer, the structure would get twisted up and that would be a real problem.
Makes me money every day
So I went with TimberKing. I started small, with their smallest mill. Even so, I’ve milled logs as long as 34’ with it. And I recently milled a 150-year-old red oak tree 26” in diameter. The mill starts in the winter, no problems at all. It’s made me money every day for the eight years I’ve owned it. It pays for itself every two months!
I own the smallest, cheapest TimberKing sawmill and the guys at TimberKing treat me like I own one of their biggest mills.
Every step adds dollar value
If you have trees, you can sell them for 20 cents a board foot on the stump. When I cut and mill them, I can sell rough-cut board and batten for $1.25 a board foot. And when I build coops and sheds, the value goes way up. That’s value added.
I love this mill. It’s really stout. I’ve missed the mark with my tractor once or twice and hit the mill. But it’s never gone out of adjustment. It’s a great, simple mill. I can add as many extensions as I want. I paid for it in less than two months. As long as you have building skills and commitment to sawing, there’s no way you won’t make money with this sawmill.”
— Chris Cox, TimberKing 1220 Owner, Stonefort IL
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