Burr Elm, whats it worth

[farmerjohn]

Hi all,
I have the opportunity to purchase some dead burr elm tree.
I want to offer a fair price for the timber so would be grateful of peoples input as to what they would offer for the timber to mill.
 extraction and haulage is pretty good, apart from my time i think it would cost me around £100 to get the timber out and to the mill.

The trees have been dead standing for 20 odd years (assuming got DED in the 80's) and have only recently blown over.
I have cut into the trees, the large diameter tree does have rot setting in, although brown it is not too soft.

there is a large lim from further up the trunk that is sound at both ends.
the 3rd is a very straight sound stem.

There is also some plan elm that may be a lot sofer but i have not cut into that.

please see photos and size below.
Any advice on a fair costing is much appreciated.

Regards, John

[farmerjohn]

Large Burred stem:

34" DBH

22" diameter just below the crotch, 17 ft long

[farmerjohn]

Large Lim 18" - 12" diameter 10ft long

[farmerjohn]

straight long stick

20" to 12" diameter 19ft long

[farmerjohn]

2 lenghts i have not cut into yet but have been blown over a number of years not months like the ones above.

16" to 12" diameter 18ft long. (2 number about the same size)

[Bogoak]

I would of thought it’s worth no more than firewood, anything that isn’t rotten could be full of worm. Shame it wasn’t got sooner.

[MattyF]

I would give him what it’s worth to you ...I would offer £50-100 ,mostly looks shot to me but you could get some interesting planks but I’ve milled elm similar and it was a pithy powdery nightmare with about two decent planks off.

[gobbypunk]

I agree with the above most of it looks F##ked maybe get somebody with an Alaskan to mill the biggest stick on site , you will know from the first cut if it’s worth milling the rest , shame you didn’t get there a few yrs ago , good luck though we may be wrong and you could get some nice boards do post some pics if you do mill it 

Cheers Mark

[Darrin Turnbull]

Just from the pictures , I’d say it’s past it

[MattyF]

Aye looks like it would be at the brittle white rot stage ...you can see it clearly is in most of the pics