Freshly milled oak for sale

[agg221]

I know this is seasoned and planed both sides but I thought this was a ridiculous price WANEY EDGE OAK BOARDS /HARDWOOD TIMBER/CRAFTS/DIY(20)(length 1216mm) | eBay, please correct e if im wrong.

 

I make that almost exactly 0.75cu.ft (measured off minimum width), so that's £92/cu.ft

 

Maybe I should start planing up a few boards....

 

Alec

[Rhob the Log]

Yes northcountryboy, you're right. That's around 0.8cuft of timber - around £84 per cube. Must've had some killer grain and a gold bar hidden in the middle...

 

 

...well done Alec

Edited September 24, 2013 by Rhob the Log
beaten to it with better maths...

[northcountryboy]

Don't get me wrong its good stuff, bought a few lengths last week but no where near this price, is it the width that makes it so desirable?

[Rhob the Log]

A perfectly flat piece of waney-edge at 17". It's not as easy to produce as it sounds and each time you touch a log you add a little to the price. Still, that's a lot of profit for someone...

[northcountryboy]

The seller is knocking out timber faster than they can plane it by the looks of it and making a fortune.

[jord_eds]

That's a great price for the seller. Must find out the winning bidder's name!

 

I never thought of ebay as being a source for milled wood too.

[Big J]

It's not a cheap source of milled timber. The oak in question is European too - if you look at his other listings, he is selling larger bundles of it too.

 

I think lots of us millers have tried eBay, but it's usually more hassle than it's worth.

[muttley9050]

It's not a cheap source of milled timber. The oak in question is European too - if you look at his other listings, he is selling larger bundles of it too.

 

I think lots of us millers have tried eBay, but it's usually more hassle than it's worth.

 

Please big J, enlighten, how can you be so sure its European?

[Big J]

His cubic metre price is too low for it to be British, in addition to which, he doesn't seem to operate a sawmill. I reckon he buys in a fair amount of European Oak, planes and sands some, makes stuff out of other bits and sells the remaining boards.

 

From looking at the timber, you would never find Oak as uniform as that up here. That's not to say that it doesn't exist further south, but it's the combination of the timber being very plain and his cubic metre price being very low.

 

Jonathan

[se7enthdevil]

big j's right it's deffinatly european oak. and the pack price he can sell it at is very cheap. he's currently selling 1cubic metre for £900, thats £25.50 perft3. where else can you get oak at that price other than off the continent...