I don't quite understand why a person who may be scrabbling to survive on about 24-30 grand per year (which is typical for many jobs) to suddenly have to be making a frame a day and pulling in a quarter million in sales, if not profits.
Why does a feasible business have to be so much more lucrative than your average menial dead end job?
True North is not in Toronto(Guelph) but I think Hugh makes about 100 frames a year, not "one a day".
I think it would be hard to jump in and compete with someone like that who is established and has likely already cornered the niche steel market in Ontario.
Mike Barry saying that there is no money in it begs the question as to how he managed to retire.