First Customer

I sawed for my first paying customer yesterday. She found my website using an internet search. She called and explained that she had one log 7 feet long and 18 inches in diameter, and that she lived in Sandy Hook, which is a part of Newtown.

That's further than I had though I would be traveling with the mill and a pretty small sawing job, but she was very enthusiastic, and didn't bat an eye at my $1/mile one-way travel fee for the 67 mile trip, so what the heck.

I sawed her log into 2 1/2 inch thick slabs to be used for benches. Then she wanted to saw very short logs that had been cut for firewood into "wood cubes". That's not in the Wood-Mizer manual, but we did it.

She invited friends and neighbors over to watch. She says she knows lots of people who she's sure would like to have logs milled. I may have to move to Fairfield county.