Beech - too good for firewood.

[Westwood]

Two pieces of Beech average 1.1 and 1.15 meter diameter and 3.8 and 3.9 meter length. Felled 18 months extracted to flat car park can be easily milled on site or ample artic access. About 102 hoppus each. Make me an offer - no branches absolutely straight logwood.

[Mortimer Firewood]

That's two nices sticks, had 5 artic loads last year that the mill rejected same as that felt like a crime cutting it in to rings.

[Treemoose]

Those really do look too good for firewood!! Hope some one takes them off your hands.

[Treemoose]

Might want to put where you are

[mendiplogs]

Two pieces of Beech average 1.1 and 1.15 meter diameter and 3.8 and 3.9 meter length. Felled 18 months extracted to flat car park can be easily milled on site or ample artic access. About 102 hoppus each. Make me an offer - no branches absolutely straight logwood.

 

Hi WEST WERE YOUR BIG BUTT TO THEN 👍so people no THANKS JON 👍

[shendy]

Where abouts?

[codlasher]

The last pile of big beech I sold consited of eight similar sized pieces. I sold them for £1 a cube. I was happy because that was the price I was always given for quality saw logs. Bonkers! Still, they were sold rather than rotting away.

 

The sad part of this, in my opinion, is you have left them way too long for any good timber and they are only really scrap wood for the odd bit of 'spalted' turning.

 

They will make nice firewood though......

 

codlasher

[Forest2Furniture]

Beech is a pig to mill at the best of times.

Anything over 6 months down will be like concrete.

 

I milled some 2 years ago that had been down 8 months nearly killed me and they were smaller diameter then these.

[gobbypunk]

Hi guys where are those big buts I would mill them ,love spalted beech and funny but most of the beech I have milled has been niceto mill I did have one bit that was going to be a chainsaw carving but was just too hard nice firewood though

Cheers Mark

[ucoulddoit]

Looking at the picture and the shape of bark on the front, I wondered if it is a sign of spiral grain which might make the planks twist and distort more than usual as they dry? I had a small spalted beech butt bought from a firewood merchant with both spiral grain and reaction wood caused by growing leaning at an angle rather than vertical. Despite higher wastage than normal due to excessive distortion, the usable timber was great. If those two butts are past the optimum period for milling, I wondered if it might now be worth leaving them for a year or two longer in the hope that any spalling might spread further?

 

Andrew