Having milled my own lumber, I will 100% say it is not worth it for the time and energy involved if I was using it to build a house. It is worth it when you ha

Having milled my own lumber, I will 100% say it is not worth it for the time and energy involved if I was using it to build a house. It is worth it when you have trees that will otherwise go to waste, and you can get high quality appearance / live edge / etc cuts out of it. If I had a lot of trees that needed to be cleared, and lots of time, I might be tempted to try using a portable mill in the 25hp range. Bricks as an individual are miserable to handle. Even with tongs it’s tedious. When I was younger, I once reclaimed tons of brick from a house that was being demolished. More recently from a driveway someone removed. Both times in small amounts(<1,000 bricks) for specific projects. I do know of a story of a restaurant, local to me, that somehow ended up needing to reclaim all these bricks that had mortar still on them. They invited over everyone they knew, gave out free beer and wine, and lots of eye protection, hammers etc. I can’t imagine it was an easy project but they successfully reclaimed it to build part of their facility.