Finding markets

[the village idiot]

Have started milling at the wood with a woodmizer, all Ash and Oak.

Has anyone got any advice about the best way to market the timber? Or does anyone have any contacts in the furniture industry who might be interested in procuring the finest sawn timber in the East (allegedly)

[felixthelogchopper]

Ickworth is coming up soon. Might be worth you asking about there.

[the village idiot]

Ickworth is coming up soon. Might be worth you asking about there.

 

Good shout Felix, thanks.

[arboriculturist]

Have started milling at the wood with a woodmizer, all Ash and Oak.

Has anyone got any advice about the best way to market the timber? Or does anyone have any contacts in the furniture industry who might be interested in procuring the finest sawn timber in the East (allegedly)

 

Did you buy a new Woodmizer just for oversize timber, if you don't mind me asking?

[Johnpl315]

I have found it really hard to sell timber, a fair bit of stuff I have milled I ended up cutting for firewood as I couldn't sell it and I don't have enough space to store it.

I don't think for me buying a mill was a good business decision.

I want to build my own green oak frame house one day though so won't be parting with it just yet.

[the village idiot]

It's not my mill, I've teamed up with the International Boatbuilding Training College at Lowestoft. It belongs to them. They are taking some of the timber for the college but I would like to find alternative markets so we can mill more of the nice stems that I fell over winter.

[the village idiot]

I have found it really hard to sell timber, a fair bit of stuff I have milled I ended up cutting for firewood as I couldn't sell it and I don't have enough space to store it.

I don't think for me buying a mill was a good business decision.

I want to build my own green oak frame house one day though so won't be parting with it just yet.

 

What methods did you try for selling the timber?

 

I hear stories of the industry being desperate for British hardwoods, but when it comes to it, it seems hard to shift??

 

What gives?

[arboriculturist]

Have started milling at the wood with a woodmizer, all Ash and Oak.

Has anyone got any advice about the best way to market the timber? Or does anyone have any contacts in the furniture industry who might be interested in procuring the finest sawn timber in the East (allegedly)

 

Ask Big J

[Johnpl315]

Tbf I have found oak posts and beams are fairly easy to sell, planks and sleepers not so much. If you can cut wide slabs they normally seem to go fairly easily

[openspaceman]

I have found it really hard to sell timber, a fair bit of stuff I have milled I ended up cutting for firewood as I couldn't sell it and I don't have enough space to store it.

I don't think for me buying a mill was a good business decision.

I want to build my own green oak frame house one day though so won't be parting with it just yet.

 

In the early 90s I ran a woodmizer for a friend while he was earning a fortune abroad. We didn't run it regularly but only when we had a bespoke order (oak beams for barns) and on a dayrate for punters with fallen trees in their garden ( I wasn't much good for this as I tried to explain to people they would probably end up with wood they would never use but...

 

Anyway we quickly learned that we couldn't sell many gravel boards or shelves so went for the biggest cut to the required baulk and then the slab was big enough to be processed mixed in with firewood.