DRYFEAS - Lumber Kiln Drying Operation Financial Feasibility User's Manual
Overview
The Lumber Kiln Drying Operation Financial Feasibility ("DRYFEAS") personal computer spreadsheet program provides preliminary financial feasibility analysis in the developmental planning of new dry kiln operations and for preliminary financial analyses related to the operation or acquisition of existing sawmill operations. The program may be used "as-is" but is designed to allow users to relatively easily make program additions and modifications, to better suit the model to their particular circumstances. This user's manual will follow the DRYFEAS model, from top to bottom, explaining what entries are required and what is being done in the various parts of the spreadsheet (with some key warnings as needed) -- section headings and row labels will be taken exactly as they are on the spreadsheet itself to allow for ease in going between the model and this manual, both in a hard copy format, or the manual may be used in a hard-copy format while following along with the spreadsheet -- or just as simply -- the manual may be viewed as an active window in your word processing program as you back and forth between the manual text and the active spreadsheet. Items taken directly from the model for explanation in this manual will generally be displayed in the manual in italics format (like this) in the manual, for clarity that it is directly within the spreadsheet model.
Downloadable Manual and Program
DRYFEAS - Lumber Kiln Drying Operation Financial Feasibility Program (Microsoft Excel format)
DRYFEAS - Lumber Kiln Drying Operation Financial Feasibility User's Manual (Adobe PDF format)
Acknowledgments
The authors wish to thank Steve Milauskas of the USFS for his technical support of this work, and the USDA Forest Service Wood Education and Research Center of Princeton West Virginia for the financial support that made this project possible.
Authors
Robert Govett, Professor, College of Natural Resources, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Scott Bowe, Assistant Professor, Department of Forest Ecology and Management, University of Wisconsin-Madison
John (Rusty) Dramm, Utilization Specialist, USDA Forest Service, State and Private Forestry
Steve Bratkovitch, USDA-FS State & Private Forestry, Technology Marketing Unit
Terry Mace, Forest Utilization and Marketing Specialist, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Division of Forestry
Updated: 2008.05.07