Brown Oak

[alex_w]

Hi,

 

I have quite a lot of brown and stripey oak out of a couple of milled butts. Has anyone sold it in the past, and how much extra do you charge in comparison to normal oak?

 

Thanks

[Big J]

Very nice, though rough chainsaw work to the right edge of the board. Ruins presentation in my mind.

 

About an extra 10-20% over normal oak.

[alex_w]

Thanks,

 

Yes the trunk was chainsawed in half to fit it on the mill, so a few of the early boards have got that edge but most square or one natural waney edge.

[agg221]

What size is it, and how dry?

 

Alec

[Big J]

  alex_w said:

Thanks,

 

Yes the trunk was chainsawed in half to fit it on the mill, so a few of the early boards have got that edge but most square or one natural waney edge.

 

Much better (and quicker) to do it with a chainsaw mill with long vertical posts. Perfect straight edge.

 

I've sold one brown oak, though it was a little while ago. I think my standard QS oak was £48 a cube and the brown QS was £55.

[Big J]

This is the end result of chainsawmill halving:

 

[alex_w]

wow,

 

Looks great. Sadly my biggest bar is 30inch, so would not have got through. Still fresh sawn so will be a while drying, 1.5 and 2 inch boards, will have a count up, but there is quite a lot

[Big J]

It's one of my single biggest labour saving devices. An MS880 on a 50" bar will do almost anything that is still small enough to fit on a Woodmizer type mill when halved.

 

Lovely brown oak though. It takes longer than normal oak to dry btw.

[se7enthdevil]

  Big J said:

It's one of my single biggest labour saving devices. An MS880 on a 50" bar will do almost anything that is still small enough to fit on a Woodmizer type mill when halved.

 

Lovely brown oak though. It takes longer than normal oak to dry btw.

 

really, i had some brown oak and i cut it in to boards and bowl blanks and it was dry within weeks...

[Big J]

  se7enthdevil said:

really, i had some brown oak and i cut it in to boards and bowl blanks and it was dry within weeks...

 

That was our experience on the kilning and the air drying. We were also warned of more drying defects, but didn't find that to be the case. Maybe it's just different logs.