Milling Douglous Fir is there a market?

[MattyF]

Do you dry the beams before building?

 

Saw logs had been felled 3 -4 years previous and was dry and light when cut so it went straight up.. Some of the larch and pine cladding was wet but that has not moved at all.

 

 

 

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[ballibeg]

Good info. Thanks.

[MattyF]

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.

 

 

That was the timber you used for the project from the FC nick , do you have an idea of age from being felled as I think its probably younger than I estimated...

Glad its some use and your more than welcome to use the mill when you need some more mate.

 

 

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[mattplace]

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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Lovely looking shed! What size was it? Have you got any more pics?

[nick1854]

Matt

 

Richard (FC) might know the age of the Douglas timber. I remember him saying it had been felled a while before we used it, hence it was pretty dry when you milled it.

 

When I was turning the offcuts (my offcuts from your offcuts!) into firewood I got loads of really fine splinters.....is that a Douglas Fir thing?

[MattyF]

That's the larch I think nick, got plenty of splinters from that!!

 

 

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