Current oak prices

[mr kipling]

Hi, I have been milling up an oak tree for beams for a garage I am going to build and I wanted to do it all in oak including the roof timbers but the tree was not big enough so I will need to buy another butt or the timber already cut. There is a local wood yard to me,but before I go there I was wondering what is the going rate in the South East per cubic meter, tonne or hoppus foot ,as the tree I have finished was given to me. Looking back through here at older posts 3-5 pounds hoppus seems the norm but that was a good few years ago.

 

Cheers Chris

[muttley9050]

Depends on quality. Cheap would be £4 a hoppus in the round or £15 a cubic ft sawn and green. For structural grade timber you would be looking at paying more than this.

Of course it all depends on where your buying it from.

 

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[kinderscout]

Their is two nice butts up for sale in Hove on ebay.

[mr kipling]

Hi, I've seen those on ebay but need a butt at least 3.6 m long as want to cut rafters. Are those on the bay a fair price ?

 

Cheers Chris

[muttley9050]

Can't see the ones on eBay. if you link to them I'll tell you what I think.

 

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[mr kipling]

Sorry way out of my tech ability but I searched oak tree trunk and its local to me so came up first cheers

[muttley9050]

I see then now. The ones on the tailer.

They look OK. I'd probably aim to pay between £200-300 foe them. There is probably about 80 to 90 hoppus in them at a guess so there probably worth 300 to 400 if you need them.

 

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[mr kipling]

So top end then, I will visit local wood yard they get artic loads in so will probably be able to get the size I need, I feel I have got an idea for prices now. I got very lucky with the last tree for free it was about 12m long tapered from 30" to 25" but in a difficult location. When we dragged it out we found another one underneath that the tree surgeon had felled to clear a path for the large one. That one was about 25" to 14" x10m but had a wicked curve in it that stopped us getting two 5 m beams out.

Chris

[muttley9050]

They can come cheap at times. If those oak were near to me I would offer him £200 and try my luck. Is there no way of changing the design to shorten the rafters like the addition of a purlin.

My experience of buying logs from woodyards is that you may need to arrange a meeting with the bank manager first.

 

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[kinderscout]

I offered £200 and no luck