/diy/ - Do It Yourself

OP if you're trying to /diy/ and want to save money AND get tools that will pay for themselves the first time you use them, get an Alaskan Mill for a chainsaw. Pic related.

Here's a guy that built his own Alaskan Mill. It's not hard. This vid has great info in it, check it out.

http://youtu.be/VAIs8VLFbls

Learn a little about getting lumber from logs. There's a video of a guy using an Alaskan Mill I watched recently and he used it for 30 minutes and it paid for itself that quickly.

One anon said you could recycle pallets... It's a good idea but Google pictures of floors made from recycled pallets. You won't get a consistent color and it would be ridiculous trying to stain all that different colored wood the same color.

The dude saying you'll need 100K in wood is incorrect.

For a few hundred bucks you could buy an Alaskan Mill and cut your own after watching a few videos with people showing you how. You could do that for even less if you buy a pawn shop saw and make your own Alaskan Mill with hardware parts. Any other work that needs to be done to the wood is just a few bucks of tools. The wood would need to be dried/seasoned which takes time.

Learn a little about lumber, OP.