Larch price

[Stubby]

10 hours ago, spuddog0507 said:

You have been watching to many episodes of the old Axe men series, shelby allways gibered on about board feet,,,,Les will know,😂😂

Where Willie at ?  Dayam Willie in da wawder ! 😁

Edited May 7, 2021 by Stubby

[Khriss]

2 hours ago, Stubby said:

Where Willie at ?  Damm Willie in da wawder ! 😁

That show has a lot to answer for - full wrap handles fr one. K

[trigger_andy]

You have been watching to many episodes of the old Axe men series, shelby allways gibered on about board feet,,,,Les will know,[emoji23][emoji23]

Not seen any actually. No time for TV. [emoji16]

[gobbypunk]

Shame they didnt make any more I liked that TV program

[spuddog0507]

2 hours ago, gobbypunk said:

Shame they didnt make any more I liked that TV program

Gabe Rygard died in a car crash while on his way to filming, Craig Rygard retired, Jimmy Smith passed away, They did film a new short serises but it was not the same with several of the main characters missing and Shelby was not in this one, and then towards the end of filming Dwayn Deffless passed away, i think that could be the end of Axe men but we nether know as there will all ways be some one else ,

[trigger_andy]

Just called the local sawmill for a price for cladding. They have no stock and won’t have till near the end of the year due non-trade accounts.

The local timber merchant has 137mm x 16mm larch cladding in at £5.50 a board foot.

Suddenly £3 a board foot does not sound so bad.

[Big J]

Board foot is a very obscure way of measuring Andy. It's either cubic foot, cubic metre or linear metre.

 

I'd be looking at £18/cubic foot for straight edged, rough sawn and £30/cubic foot for PAR (planed all round). More than that isn't justifiable.

[trigger_andy]

Board foot is a very obscure way of measuring Andy. It's either cubic foot, cubic metre or linear metre.
 
I'd be looking at £18/cubic foot for straight edged, rough sawn and £30/cubic foot for PAR (planed all round). More than that isn't justifiable.

The merchant was £23 inc vat for 4.2m x 137 x 16mm

[Big J]

1 hour ago, trigger_andy said:

 

The merchant was £23 inc vat for 4.2m x 137 x 16mm

 

 

£2500 a cubic metre including VAT, exactly. Utter greed.

 

Decent quality larch is about £100/t delivered in at the moment. Recovery rate is 0.55 (factoring in the tonne to cubic metre ratios) when cutting premium, no sapwood cladding from good quality logs. So you need £181 worth of raw material to produce a cube of finished product. Commercial mills will covert the logs for about £70 a cubic metre, kiln dry it more or less for free (on account of burning waste wood products and being RHI supported) and then grading and planing double the cost. So £500/cubic metre. That's what I'd expect the wholesale price from a major mill to be. Costs are obviously much higher for small mills, but there is no scenario in which £2500/cubic metre is justifiable. That's getting on for kiln dried walnut prices.

[topchippyles]

1 hour ago, Big J said:

 

£2500 a cubic metre including VAT, exactly. Utter greed.

 

Decent quality larch is about £100/t delivered in at the moment. Recovery rate is 0.55 (factoring in the tonne to cubic metre ratios) when cutting premium, no sapwood cladding from good quality logs. So you need £181 worth of raw material to produce a cube of finished product. Commercial mills will covert the logs for about £70 a cubic metre, kiln dry it more or less for free (on account of burning waste wood products and being RHI supported) and then grading and planing double the cost. So £500/cubic metre. That's what I'd expect the wholesale price from a major mill to be. Costs are obviously much higher for small mills, but there is no scenario in which £2500/cubic metre is justifiable. That's getting on for kiln dried walnut prices.

For such a large saw mill pontrilas are really expensive to the general public.