Milling query oak

[Alastair643]

2x oak stems approx 4ft at the base and around 10 metres in length. First time milling and dealing with boards/planks/milled timber so have no idea about price of selling this and availability with people buying it. Based near Solihull does anyone have any contacts or know about pricing/people interested in this? 
Or would someone maybe be interested in milling this on site? 

[Bob_z_l]

10 hours ago, Alastair643 said:

2x oak stems approx 4ft at the base and around 10 metres in length. First time milling and dealing with boards/planks/milled timber so have no idea about price of selling this and availability with people buying it. Based near Solihull does anyone have any contacts or know about pricing/people interested in this? 
Or would someone maybe be interested in milling this on site? 

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[doobin]

Chainsaw mill on site into slabs. That butt is worthless for anything other than ‘decorative’ river table type stuff where warp and twist can be called character. 
 

id consider it a win if you found someone willing to mill it, take it away and clean up for free. Or just take it for firewood. 

[trigger_andy]

Way to many branches coming off of that stem to be worthwhile milling it in my opinion. I guess ok for fence posts or something? 

[doobin]

5 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

Way to many branches coming off of that stem to be worthwhile milling it in my opinion. I guess ok for fence posts or something? 

Ok if you like banana shaped fence posts! You might get gate posts but they would be very low quality. 

[trigger_andy]

Just now, doobin said:

Ok if you like banana shaped fence posts! You might get gate posts but they would be very low quality. 

Make mini cruck house chicken coops?  

[topchippyles]

On 16/11/2023 at 20:34, Alastair643 said:

2x oak stems approx 4ft at the base and around 10 metres in length. First time milling and dealing with boards/planks/milled timber so have no idea about price of selling this and availability with people buying it. Based near Solihull does anyone have any contacts or know about pricing/people interested in this? 
Or would someone maybe be interested in milling this on site? 

Fire wood that's all that is good for.

[Will C]

Make nice coffee table boards. About £1500 to mill £300 worth of boards or fire wood the lot at far better money. 

[Squaredy]

On 16/11/2023 at 20:34, Alastair643 said:

2x oak stems approx 4ft at the base and around 10 metres in length. First time milling and dealing with boards/planks/milled timber so have no idea about price of selling this and availability with people buying it. Based near Solihull does anyone have any contacts or know about pricing/people interested in this? 
Or would someone maybe be interested in milling this on site? 

As others have said the stems in the photos are way too knotty.  Small low branches can be ignored, but limbs of that size will result in almost no clean timber.

 

 This is why as a sawmill I would not have looked at stems like that.  You could still mill them of course, and it would not all be waste.  But the chance of you ever breaking even would be slim indeed.

[Alastair643]

Thank you for replies, that’s very helpful