Milling Douglous Fir is there a market?

[Jontreasure]

Hi All

I have a large Douglous fir stem with poor acess it will have to be milled on site. I feel it would be a great waste to burn it all. I guess my question is what kind of market for the timber is there and what sizes would be most useful?

Many thanks

In advance.

Jon

[LeeGray]

I've milled beams 12' 8x3 for building sheds from it and was very impressed with it, maybe easier to move about and sell as 8' untreated sleepers. Think they go for about £20 each?

[se7enthdevil]

doug fir is an excellent construction and joinery timber and i don't know why 100s of tons are logged up every year when it could be milled up and used.

 

laws should be in place so any good trunk get milled and used rather than logged.

 

yes there is a market.

 

green you can sell it to the construction side or if you can get it kiln dried then sell it to joiners.

 

 

 

how big is the trunk?

[Mike Dempsey]

I have milled up a few doug fir logs. I made a 32mm thick fence for my garden last year with 125mm square fence posts. Its 2.4m high and wont blow down like my neighbours all do unless a hurricane comes directly through my garden! I am in the process of building another kiln to dry my hardwoods and I am using df for the frame. My firewood shack outside is also made from df. Sure beats buying wood from Jewsons or any other timber yard. Its a pretty versatile wood and much better than scots pine or any spruce.

[Stoke Wood Project]

Whereabouts are you then?

[MattyF]

I like milling it , cuts nice and its light compared to other timbers...used it with larch and pine on a new shed,all the beams in top pic are all Douglas with the exception of maybe a few larch.

 

 

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[LeeGray]

I like milling it , cuts nice and its light compared to other timbers...used it with larch and pine on a new shed,all the beams in top pic are all Douglas with the exception of maybe a few larch.

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Very nice shed Matty, puts my curvey ones here to shame! Do you mill with a bandsaw or Alaskan?

[MattyF]

Thanks , band saw effort definitely! Still very new to band saw milling so that was a big learning curve spent plenty of time on an Alaskan though so had a rough idea of what to do.

 

 

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[ballibeg]

Do you dry the beams before building?

[nick1854]

Shed looking good Matt. Some of the offcuts I took from your milling were too good to burn and I managed to get some useful posts from them. Thanks.