Sawmill Business Podcast

Today’s guest is Larry Smith from L&K Hardwoods! Larry is part of our iDRY Conversations series where we interview iDRY customers and talk with them about their stories and business. Investing in the Dream Larry bought a Timber King 6000, the biggest machine that the company makes. The sawmill company is based in Kansas City and with Larry’s strong commitment to supporting local business, he couldn’t think of anyone else he would want to buy his first mill from.  In terms of his biggest successes, Larry says his overall biggest success is his family, but for business, it was getting his dream piece of land to open his shop and build his investments on.  L&K Hardwoods is on the national historic registry, the very first sawmill in Jackson Country Missouri was built in 1834 on the land. People would come from as far as New Orleans to buy flour and grain and supplies. The mill was 60 feet high and all built out of locally sourced black walnut gathered from the wooded area around where it would