oak to mill

[timbermillers]

I'd be careful paying much over £3 for juvenile trees, i.e. 18" diameter. They will carry a lot of tension and you'll waste a lot of timber cutting out the tension (yes that's through experience after buying a lorry load of the stuff!).

I've paid up to £6.5 roadside but that was for a 4' diameter butt, 30' long and straight as a gun barrel!

As tommer9 said, it's getting hard to get hold of decent oak these days, many a farmer out there thinking they'll make a fortune out of a few old hedge oaks! All good for us milling boys though! (Got the same mill as you delabodge)

[John Hughes]

I have plenty of larch and spruce to mill , but hardwood is hard to come by. I went to look at a 4ft diam oak butt recently, it had been down a couple of years and probably full of nails and shakes. The old Welsh farmer thought it was worth a fortune and would not budge ,so it will probably rot where it was felled. A shame.

[delabodge]

brilliant job today john, thanks a bunch,,got me a great load of cedar, will post some pics soon, very happy,,,,,,great service.