Sawn timber advice

[Johnpl315]

That could of been me a few months ago, I was searching for info before I splashed out

[Dizzer]

if you buy in pine to make money from it you have to make stuff out of the timber you mill.we bought in 25 tons of pine and milled it into fence posts and cladding and have been selling that alot and have got just under half way through the load and we have made our out lay out on the timber. for timber like 2x4 and 6x2s its hard to compete with the building trade with the price of their cls timber

[TreeAb]

Dizzer

 

Are you treating the pine in any way or selling it as untreated?

 

do you sell it green or are you storing it for drying time first then selling it?

 

i am getting the pine for the cost of felling it and taking the mill able lengths and very close to the yard.

 

cheers

[Dizzer]

i give them the option if they want it untreated or if they want it stained in a timber care i carge them extra

[Dizzer]

all the cladding dries out pretty quick and the fence posts i sell i dont think it matters if they are going in green but i do make rustic furniture out of other timber i mill and i do let that dry for a bit. another good seller i find is to mill timber the same size as scaff boards which are approx 1.5" thick and approx 8.5" wide and we sell them for a tena a pop at 10ft lengths and loads of people buy them from us which bumps up the return on the wood we buy in

[TreeAb]

Cheers Dizzer

 

that's a great help, we are a low impact timber extraction company and its a further service to which we can offer. as well as milling timber products for selling.