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That's sawmilling,... unless you are cutting to order or a fast moving product or can afford to carry stock until the right person comes to buy then it will always be a problem. Larger hardwood mills can be carrying stock for 5+years but none of them started off like that. If you look back through the history of sawmills they cut for a demand whether it was chocks, fencing , furniture trade etc.etc. not the other way round where they decided to set up a sawmill then find the customers afterwards.

I would if its in tree length and plantation grown .

Experienced hardwood cutters needed for ongoing contracts throughout Norfolk / Suffolk. If you not experienced in hardwood production cutting to a very high standard on piece rate then please do not apply. p.m only please.

£3.50 hoppus through a parcel is a fair price, at roadside. 2000 hoppus is not such a large parcel and that's why I suggest selling it as one, it is easy to run into the part load situation .

Some fair points made, roadside Oak in most cases makes more than standing ,buyers will always cover themselves against a percentage of shake etc. If you do decide to sell at roadside engaging the right fallers to do the work is a must as presentation of logs sells them. It is better to offer it as a parcel, letting someone take a few sweet butts will devalue the rest of the parcel and what you gain will be outweighed by what you lose on second lengths. Splitting the Beech off and selling it as a parcel or giving the option will have advantages. I would be happy to have a look at the timber.

That's fine, I put my valuation on the log and actually it is not what I would consider a commercial milling log. There are signs of possible metal along with the other defects I pointed out, considering the conversion rate on that log the £3 /hoppus is soon inflated, there is obvious excess wastage at the butt end and it appears from the photo there are similar if not worse problems at the tip. If you take that into consideration the margins you were quoting do not hold water. On a log of this nature hoppus theory struggles to hold up, it appears from the photo that standard taper is way out and so if you consider all these points I struggle to get my thinking around the margins you were quoting.

I am a timber buyer and do understand the workings of hoppus/ log conversion.

That is, unless you consider tight offensive

That's my point, look at the faults that log has and it cant apply.

I am still interested to know how it converts on a 1:1 recovery on a log of that spec.

Good points, the way I see it milling beech is changing hands at £2 hoppus delivered for upholstery grade , where else is there a bulk market for beech in the uk? If it was a milling log , and personally I would walk past it , why would you pay £3 roadside for something you could get for £2 delivered? that's not really tight, just good business , AND I know who my parents are thankyou

How are you going to get 34 cube return out of it, just interested ?

tbh Jon I don't know of a sawmill that would pay £3 hoppus for logs of that grade after haulage, never mind loaded on