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Michael Faurot

wrote:

The only sawyer I know sells select mesquite (that is all he sells)
to a few older customers that are furniture makers. He isn't getting
rich, and he doesn't want more customers.

He wouldn't sell anything to me because I wouldn't commit to his 400
bf minimum. Depending on the grade, he gets $7.50 to almost $15 a
bf. On the flip side though, he sells mesquite with no windshake, no
sap wood, and no hollows. It looks like it came out of a perfect
mesquite manufacturing machine. And since it is so rarely that
perfect, the furniture guys buy it with just a phone call from him.

I'd be interested in some of that. But not at that kind of minimum.
My ballpark would be more like whatever $100-$200 would get me.

Apparently most of the serious furniture makers around here get in
their truck and take a trailer out to the different places they like.
I know there are a few mills around Austin, a big one in Smithville,
and several in Bryan that specialize in mesquite. At $2.75 a gallon,
with a 16 ft trailer and a minimum hour drive... I don't want to
calculate what that would add to the bf price.

I don't have a trailer, but I wouldn't want to drive my old truck all
that far either with what gas costs these days. Too bad about that
place in Sequin. That wouldn't be a bad trip for me.

I'll certainly post back here if I find someone in the vicinity.

Thanks!

BTW, where are you?

Northeast side.

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