Today's milling

[Khriss]

On 22/03/2022 at 15:45, AJStrees said:

What would you sell a slab of this oak for, 10’ long x 40-44” wide by 3’ thick, green.

You will get 6 bog seats £30 plus 6 chopping boards £5 and bag of logs £5, £215 

K

[AJStrees]

46 minutes ago, Khriss said:

You will get 6 bog seats £30 plus 6 chopping boards £5 and bag of logs £5, £215 

K

Now we're talking. That's a good bit of direction. Cheers Khriss.

[Khriss]

1 minute ago, AJStrees said:

Now we're talking. That's a good bit of direction. Cheers Khriss.

Those would fly off the stall at the farmers market, an i know ****************kal about milling. K

[muttley9050]

Those would fly off the stall at the farmers market, an i know ****************kal about milling. K

Sell the slab for £150 or arse about for a day or more to make an extra £65.

 

Although your prices are a bit low

[Big Beech]

Not milling, but some off cuts of some of the lesser spalted burr horse chestnut boards that I have, just the small ones.

Thrown these in the kiln when it was open the other week.

dried to less than 5% in about 3 days and to be fair stayed pretty true to how they went in.

levelled off on my router sled.

just water thrown on.

can’t wait to get the main boards in the kiln.

Edited March 29, 2022 by Big Beech

[trigger_andy]

Had a couple of easy half days Milling this Spruce. £20 a cubic foot so ended up as a £1500. 

[bilke_user]

43 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

Had a couple of easy half days Milling this Spruce. £20 a cubic foot so ended up as a £1500. 

I do like your tractor setup

 

[trigger_andy]

1 minute ago, bilke_user said:

I do like your tractor setup

 

I like it too, unfortunately its not mine.  

[bilke_user]

45 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

I like it too, unfortunately its not mine.  

I've just invested in a skid steer loader for the mill, should take the pain out of carrying!

[trigger_andy]

Just now, bilke_user said:

I've just invested in a skid steer loader for the mill, should take the pain out of carrying!

Well thats very timely for me as the Estate is selling their Avant so Im loaderless now.  

 

I was out looking at a wee Bobcat Skidsteer a 400 series but they wanted £6k for it. I thought it was well over priced but also too wee/narrow to handle long logs, ie 6m. Im now looking for a Telihandler in the £10k range as without a loader Im kinda gubbed. I dont have a huge turnover but Im getting over £4000 of orders to fulfil each time Im home now. With minimal outlays it seems worthwhile investing in a loader.