Thread: transporting second hand wood from one province to another

Thats one business that I'm seriously looking into once I move to C.M. in January. I'd like to buy old houses (teak and other strong woods) and dismantle them and keep them at a lumber site with my Thai partner mainly running that end of the business. Maybe even exporting teak lumber to the U.S. For this, I would have a lawyer lok into the legal ramifications. The down side is that every mom and pop lumber store in the C.M. area is visited on a monthly basis by the police for their cut and I don't want either myself or my partner ending up in jail or having our inventory taken away because we pissed someone off. However, I'll still spend a few months looking into the possibilities.

I've got my area sussed. About 150k for a complete house, 12 "don" which i've come to understand is how many main supporting stumps a house has. I'd love to get one and have the wood stacked in my yard ready for whatever.

more info, as previously said, if you are moving wood, esp teak, you will need a government stamp on each bit

you will likely get stopped and your wood taken from you without the stamps, even if bribes have been paid. It is always another policeman who stops you

If removing old teak from a structure, try to get it wet first, with a day's shower if possible. Old teak is brittle and if you try to remove it while it is dry, it will break easaily.