Ash slabs

[Glenn Drake]

Hello all

I have about 15 ash slabs all approximately 50mm thick and 2m up to 4m long and up to 500mm wide, air dried under cover. I've used some but want to sell the rest, where best to advertise and what are they worth 

[AHPP]

You and everyone else.

[Conor Wright]

Slabs are a funny thing. "Special" ones fetch great money. Sadly they're not all special. 

Properly dried and planed to thickness with stunning grain and a few features in the right places and you can name your price. Plain and boring straight off the mill 40-50 quid per board foot.

 

Then you've people that want to see the one at the back of the stack, right down the bottom, then the first one again, then maybe a different species, then they hum and haw is it better than the imaginary one in another yard the far side of the country before asking could you deliver it to their yurt on a mountain surrounded by bog with acces only by helicopter or yak before haggling to no avail, only then remembering they're broke, have no woodworking skills and no tools, tell you they'll take it so you leave it out you then refuse to sell it to the next customer,(who really happens to want just that particular slab, no other)just in case yurt guy and hairy armpit girl were actually going to do something more than smoke weed and talk about composting toilets. Maybe they actually do things in their mountainside yurt.

After a year you come to realise they are never coming back so you run the slab through the kindling machine because youre sick of moving it.