Today's milling

[Rough Hewn]

Got a nice Ash log on the Lucas mill at the moment.  Not slabbing it, just getting square edged stuff, but flipped this one over to get a slab.

That is a nice slab[emoji106][emoji106][emoji106]

[Squaredy]

9 hours ago, gobbypunk said:

Nice Ash slab any plans to make something out of it 

No It is in the stack ready for sale next year or the one after.

[gobbypunk]

So if you don’t mind me asking how much is that slab of Ash worth ,pricing of slabs is something I am struggling with especially now I have a mill it’s something I defo need to get my head around.

 Thanks Mark 

[Forest2Furniture]

26 minutes ago, gobbypunk said:

So if you don’t mind me asking how much is that slab of Ash worth ,pricing of slabs is something I am struggling with especially now I have a mill it’s something I defo need to get my head around.

 Thanks Mark 

The best way to work out what to charge is see what sawmills & wood yards in your area are charging per cu/ft for similar timber then work out the cu/ft of your stuff and away you go.

[Squaredy]

On 03/05/2020 at 10:37, gobbypunk said:

So if you don’t mind me asking how much is that slab of Ash worth ,pricing of slabs is something I am struggling with especially now I have a mill it’s something I defo need to get my head around.

 Thanks Mark 

Well for me the starting point is always to work out how many cubic feet of timber it is which in this case is about 4.33.  Then multiply it by a price per cubic foot which for me with good ash is £28.75.  This gives a price of around £125.  Sometimes I then bump the price up a bit if I can see it is really spectacular.  Realistically this is the price for the piece when it has fully seasoned in a couple of years, and of course what sometimes happens is it cracks and distort so ends up not being worth so much.  If it is no good as a slab when dried it gets re-sawn and sold as square edged boards which usually means lots of waste.

[Jamespepperpot]

A wind blown oak log i milled a little while back for a client who wanted to use it to build a tree house. Milled in one day on my own and was 1.4m wide. To give the stack scale, the bottom row of timbers are 2x6". 

[Rough Hewn]

A wind blown oak log i milled a little while back for a client who wanted to use it to build a tree house. Milled in one day on my own and was 1.4m wide. To give the stack scale, the bottom row of timbers are 2x6". 

That's awesome.
What a stack of timber, to cut, in one day on your own.
Great job James
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[timbernut]

Milled this this morning, 2”boards (widest 32”) the tops of the middle ones pretty rotten sadly, squeezed out 2no 1” ones to make the book matched bit in last picture

[Rough Hewn]

Milled this this morning, 2”boards (widest 32”) the tops of the middle ones pretty rotten sadly, squeezed out 2no 1” ones to make the book matched bit in last picture

Those book matched pairs are really nice[emoji106][emoji106][emoji106]

[Conor Wright]

Had to split a big ash down the middle with the 660 to fit it on the mizer so please excuse the poor bookmatching!
Nice timber though.. might squirrel away a pair for myself!