I have a Timberking, the remains of the old Belsaw circle mills.
I've wanted a mill for better than half of my life, the manual band mills was what I wanted to spend. After much thinking it over for a long time during my search, I figured that they were far too much work to be much fun and after the "shine" wore off and I'd go back to buying rough sawn lumber for next to nothing (.50c bd/ft) with his logs!
Then my mill showed up on c/l, fully hydraulic, blade sharpener with a tooth setter and a lap siding jig plus 50 some blades half of which are new! I hurried right over and handed him his asking price of $15k!
I read of a lot of guys with a woodland mills manual mill that are satisfied but during the past 2 years they seemed to be the only ones to give a delivery date that wasn't 12+ months out if you got any dates at all.
I don't think that you can go wrong with a woodmizer and your return if you wanted to sell or upgrade would be commensurate with the purchase price.
I've got every way imaginable to move logs (tractor, skid steer, excavator) but I'm sooo glad that I waited for a mill with hydraulic log handling.
Call WM for a list of their sawyers near you and see if you can watch him/her saw.
This might key you in to the work involved just leveling and turning the log on the mill, the cranking for raising and lowering the saw head and pushing it through the cut is not the hard work that I mentioned above.
My mill in the building that I'm building for it.