A few sawn oak planks

[Will Heal]

I want to shift the rest of these mainly oak planks that I had milled up about 6 years ago. It is all air dried, it looks a bit green from being outdoors and most boards are pretty flat. I just have no idea what it is worth or where I should sell it. I haven't got time to drag it all out measure it and restack it or sell individually so should I put it on eBay? I'm worried I won't get a fair price for it.

 

I measured some roughly

Oak

9x 8' lengths 6"-12" wide 1"-2" thick

 

8x 6'x11"x1"

3x 6'x11"x2"

3x 6'x12"x4"

 

3 small oak lintels 3ft long

 

Also on under the tin with this are some reclaim pine benches from the village hall 12"x1.5" 2x16' lengths

2x 10' lengths a 14' length and a 15' length

 

Thanks will

[farmerjohn]

hi, i'm might need some 2" thick boards to make window cills from, where are you based?

[Will Heal]

North Devon

[Will Heal]

Just seen your in Cumbria! Went to college in Newton rigg but haven to been up there for years

[farmerjohn]

devon!!! its a bit of a trek for a few boards sorry.

yeh know lot of my mates and brother and sister all went to newton rigg college, they all loved it.

[Will Heal]

Any one got an idea of price? What is air dried oak worth per cubic foot?

[Will Heal]

Bump!

[devon TWiG]

Any one got an idea of price? What is air dried oak worth per cubic foot?

£20 - £30 per cubic foot , you may get a good price on the better boards, and then be left with cracked / warped boards of odd dimensions you can hardly give away . Depends how much someone wants it really but Oak is readily available in most areas so I doubt any one will travel that far for it but you never know really ! Are there any traditional boat builders near you ?

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

As suggested above ^, get yourself connected with boaty types and builders doing barn conversions etc.

 

Builders (in my experience) are generally lazy, untrained, ignorant, incompetent, unable to plan and implement anything past what they are actually doing at that exact moment regardless of the impact of their immediate actions on the next task or trade) which makes them absolute suckers for buying timber.

 

They'd rather spend a ridiculous amount buying imported hardwood from the builders merchant (because it's easy and what they've always done and their retarded pea sized brains are incapable of independent thought) than looking for a good local source.

 

That means if you have timber and know builders, you could cash in!

[farmerjohn]

Kevin, that's incredibly narrow minded and offensive.

You have obviously had a bad experience with builders. (in my experience) generally when a member of the public has had problems with builders as they have gone for the cheapest option and the contractor they have chosen has no credibility or intention of doing the best job possible.

As in all trades there are good and bad people practicing i think the customer should take some dew-diligence and find out who they are employing and a tradesmans past employers.

There was a thread on here about someone charging for very bad workmanship pol-larding trees, I'm sure there would be a lot of retaliation if the person cam on here and posted a comment as offensive as yours about all members of the abro-culture sector.

Yes i am a builder, and the reason i am on here is i am sick of buying over priced imported timber. (and want to be able to offer my customers genuinely locally sourced timber) for barn conversions and historic restorations.