Portable bandmill in Puna?

[richard in quebec]

I'm just a crazy Haole from California but right now live in Quebec.. I would like to move to Hawaii as I spent some time in Oahu in High school and my bro. lives in Maui..My dad had some connections to the big Island as a Volcanologist at Ucal SB and spent alot of time researching the volcanoes there and we lived in Kailua.Oahu.while he taught at University of Hawaii.I felt a real connection to the locals in Hawaii when I was there and didn't get my ass whupped like alot of the other Haoles but au contrare those locals loved this Cal. kid I was addicted to surfing as a kid and was in Makaha intl. surfing championships in the 60's..and won some trophys in Cal.back in the day.
I kinda grew away from it as my family got larger and I did not have the time..My kids are gone now and my wife and I would like to move to Hawaii.. I built a house just north of NY state in beautiful Quebec using a portable Woodmizer bandmill and our family owns 50 acres of beautiful maple and deciduous forest here just north of Montreal.....
I think I want to move to Hawaii and start my surfing career again.. Does anyone out there know if I could do the same thing in Puna..like use my bandmill to build a house?.. Is there enough lumber from the trees on the Big island ? Is it worth shipping it over there?...Richard

[lquade]

hi richard.. i think so. we cut down HUGE swamp mahogony, the prettiest wood you could see, and we couldnt give it away! also mango, albezia and ohia on many properties. i have also seen rainbow eucs left to rot... amazing... i think you could find plenty, i still have about 120 feet of tree behind my house about 4 feet in diameter.....

[David M]

I sure would think so.
I recently got a couple hundred board feet of 1.5 inch, rough cut, kiln dried ohia to use in my house. Absolutely beautiful wood. Very hard also, bet I've broken half dozen drill bits and 20 square drive finish screws - so far. The guy I bought from is on Oceanview, the liln in Hilo.

David

Ninole Resident

[richard in quebec]

[]Thanks for the replies.. 4 feet in diameter.. Thats one big tree!