Thru and thru Oak prices

[Big Beech]

Following on from my initial thread http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/alaskan-mill/59099-30-oak-stick-worth-trouble.html the customer wishes to know the resale value of green thru n thru boards and seasoned timber.

Is it priced per plank or cubic ft? Or other please dxplain any formulas

Thx Simon

[muttley9050]

Depends greatly on the quality. It's essentially worth what people Will pay. Always priced per cubic ft or meter. I would suggest £20 - 35 s cubic ft. But u can regularly pick it up on flea bay for £15. Marketing is the issue here.

James

[Big J]

The quality of timber is largely dependent on the expertise of the person producing it. Comes down to how well it's cut, stacked, positioned and kiln dried. You can take a good log and produce bad boards, but conversely you can make quite a lot out of a poor log if you know what you are doing.

 

For the inexperienced, a roadside sale of a good log is probably the best return. They would, for instance, almost certainly produce poor boards if they milled them at this time of year. Too hot.

[karlk]

you can make money from a bad log, loose money on a good log, cock up the milling process cos its to hot and then kiln dry timber in a controlled enviroment, realy dont get this answer. we been processing timber for hundreds of years, have control of the enviroment and we mess it up. come on its either a good bit of wood or not.