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Does anyone have any hints or tips on drying burr oak? I have a butt which is about 30" diameter and about 15' long. The bottom half is burred all the way round and the top will produce "pippy oak". It is still in the round and will be until I find out a sensible way to dry it as I don't want to end up with a heap of logs! Any advise gratefully recieved.
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See if you can open this one! Timber prices v2.xls
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The graph is set for £45 a cubic foot which is what I've been selling dry ash and chestnut for, and the table at £20 a cube is set up for green oak (somewhere between stake and beam grade). I'm constantly looking around at what others charge, some of which is a joke for the quality of timber they supply. Most of what I deal with is oak, ash chestnut and walnut so these are the prices I try to keep up to date with.
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Nothing is old school, it's whatever works for you! I've put a spreadsheet together a while ago to work out this very problem, I've just added a graph which sounds a bit like the thing you are after, hopefully attached to this post! There are three sheets, one a table of figures, one a graph and one for the inputs into the graph. If you change any of the grey cells your prices will auto update, to update the graph change the figures in the "Graph Data" sheet. Have a play and you'll see what I mean. Yes I'm a geek with spreadsheet but they don't half make your life easier!! Hope it helps. Timber prices (v2).xls
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I'd be careful paying much over £3 for juvenile trees, i.e. 18" diameter. They will carry a lot of tension and you'll waste a lot of timber cutting out the tension (yes that's through experience after buying a lorry load of the stuff!). I've paid up to £6.5 roadside but that was for a 4' diameter butt, 30' long and straight as a gun barrel! As tommer9 said, it's getting hard to get hold of decent oak these days, many a farmer out there thinking they'll make a fortune out of a few old hedge oaks! All good for us milling boys though! (Got the same mill as you delabodge)
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I'd be careful paying much over £3 for juvenile trees, i.e. 18" diameter. They will carry a lot of tension and you'll waste a lot of timber cutting out the tension (yes that's through experience after buying a lorry load of the stuff!). I've paid up to £6.5 roadside but that was for a 4' diameter butt, 30' long and straight as a gun barrel! As tommer9 said, it's getting hard to get hold of decent oak these days, many a farmer out there thinking they'll make a fortune out of a few old hedge oaks! All good for us milling boys though! (Got the same mill as you delabodge)
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That's great timber, wish some of mine came out as well as that! How many planks are there for sale? Might well be interested myself!
