Roughly how much is this worth

[stuart505505]

Right if we had good hard oak milled how much would one piece be roughly worth and how do you work it out.

Size of timber 2400mm long X 900mm wide X 75mm think.

 

You can see pics of timber on thread ( is this worth milling yes it was)

Thanks

 

Stuart

[se7enthdevil]

i don't know about anyone else but green timber to me is worth 10-15 quid ft3.

 

seasoned i can get wide boards for £38ft3.

 

 

the board you describe is 6ft3 so i would say that seasoned (if you can sit on it for 3 years) it should sell for £240 possibly more. just as green wood i'd say £90. i should point out that i think there should be a premium for such a wide board as it took alot of effort to cut, perhaps some other milers could help you with that.

[Big J]

Fresh sawn, £18-20 a cubic foot at most, so £108-120 a board. Be prepared to take less though if someone offers to take a lot of it.

[Big J]

i don't know about anyone else but green timber to me is worth 10-15 quid ft3.

 

seasoned i can get wide boards for £38ft3.

 

 

the board you describe is 6ft3 so i would say that seasoned (if you can sit on it for 3 years) it should sell for £240 possibly more. just as green wood i'd say £90. i should point out that i think there should be a premium for such a wide board as it took alot of effort to cut, perhaps some other milers could help you with that.

 

Green oak is worth a bit more than that Steve. I've got a really good quartersawing butt in the yard at the moment, 12ft long, 4 diameter, that I had to pay £12/hoppus foot for.

 

Seasoned oak can also be worth a touch more if you can do it without distortion or defect. You stand a much better chance of this by ripping the boards up the heart, and there isn't as much demand for 3 inch stock as 1.5 or 2".

[treequip]

When you say good hard oak, there is a lot of decay in the top cut, I hope it gets better further down

[agg221]

I'll offer an opinion.

 

Look at pictures 6 and 7 on your other thread. You can see soft spots at the end in picture 6, to the right in picture 7. You need to leave these out of your calculations of volume. When it's to the side, you could cut the widest possible full length board to take it out, and then the remainder as a shorter, narrower piece, but you can't include it in your calculation.

 

Assume you had a clear board with no soft spots. You would measure the width at the narrowest point on the narrowest side. This gives the maximum width board you can get out of it at full length. You would then measure the length at the shortest point, assuming it isn't perfectly square, for the same reason. Assuming thickness is even, this gives you the length, width and thickness to work from.

 

Assuming the figures in your post are correct after you have done the above, that would be 8ft x 3ft x 0.25ft - multiply these together and you get 6cu.ft.

 

I would reckon on selling clean, good quality timber like this (minus the soft spots) at £20/cu.ft whilst green, so about £120 per board. This would go up a bit if air dried, more if kiln dried (or air dried for a very long time) and more still if planed to an even thickness after drying.

 

Hope this helps!

 

Alec