lgl
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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.
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I would if its in tree length and plantation grown .
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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.
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£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 .
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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.
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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.
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I am a timber buyer and do understand the workings of hoppus/ log conversion.
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That is, unless you consider tight offensive
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That's my point, look at the faults that log has and it cant apply.
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I am still interested to know how it converts on a 1:1 recovery on a log of that spec.
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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
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How are you going to get 34 cube return out of it, just interested ?
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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
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It has character perhaps, but looking at the economics of it is different. Offset the milling cost even without the possibility of metal present and the recovery rate and it works vout expensive boards/ firewood and a pile of sawdust. Then you have to find someone that is willing to pay enough to recover that cost. If there was profit then sawmills would be cutting it.
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My money says there is a possibility of metal in it, How many boards do you think you would get out of that piece? It has in bark, a blind knot , the top third is u s , splits. heart crack, .....whats wrong with nice coloured logs?
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Or perhaps, ring it up avoiding possible embedded scrap, split it and deliver ?
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£40 in mine
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Does anyone know the rules on slurry spreading and storage
lgl replied to Dean Lofthouse's topic in The Lounge
Oh ok, that's not meant to happen. -
Does anyone know the rules on slurry spreading and storage
lgl replied to Dean Lofthouse's topic in The Lounge
Not burying carcases is illegal but storing fym is not. Without knowing the facts it could be argued that you are responsible for your dog and unless the manure or slurry was spread on the surface of a footpath I wonder whether there would be a case? -
I am not picking at your post but the whole point of this that seems to be overlooked by others is that gravity says the butt end is going to fall away from the cutter, The reasoning behind cutting high in my experience is to get enough momentum to make sure the tree clears the one it is hung up in, if you cut only a foot or two above the stump there is no fall and no momentum and what tends to happen is that the butt of the leaner creeps closer to the standing tree and makes the situation worse because in that scenario you would eventually be dealing with an almost upright hanger
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Oh ok, I am guessing Dave means through drying, Ash when clean and straight will pop , especially summer felled. A lot of mills cut the crown off through a knot to prevent splitting.
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What exactly do you mean?
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what should we charge for cut and split dry logs
lgl replied to I-buy-logs's topic in Firewood forum
I am with you on this Jon,there must be 30% weight loss in drying , plus the cost of kilning -
This guy may have bought the saw in all innocence from a legit source and as such not committed an offence?
