Johnpl315

Well as I said beams, posts and full width slabs have sold ok. I just get left with a load of random bit and bobs I can't shift. Thanks

Yeah I have an add on woodlots. It must be a lot to do with marketing. If someone actually saw them they might buy them but people who look for this stuff online just want it cheap. All is not lost I am using to to build myself a log shed. I hope I have put you off others do seem to do well I think it's just me who's not a great salesman!

Yeah I don't know why gravel boards etc don't sell. I have these lovely chestnut planks ideal gravel board, decking or rustic cladding. Had no interest, not even at £4 a plank. Now thinking they will make great kindling

I have only really tried online, eBay, gumtree and Friday add. I just think it's hard to compete with imported timber. Look at the prices on UK oak, if you get your timber for free you may be ok but if you are paying for the timber it's hard to compete.

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

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.

I would just pressure wash it so it looks cleaner/tidier and try and find a market for it as is. Must be people who would want it for bridges, bank revetments and the like.

I guess it depends on the value of the timber in hand but i would of thought most back garden type trees would not justify spending £300 to get them milled. How much work do people charging £300 a day get?

You can get a guy with a woodmizer for £300...

Interesting post, I have some birch to cut and I was thinking of cutting four foot billets I can then leave to stack and season. I have no machinery and this seemed like a good option to aid drying time and for ease of handling

Also, short term or long term work considored!

Hi, Just looking at the moment but wondering if there is any work going within 50 miles or so of Exeter? I am open to any type of work, hand cutting, scrub clearance, groundsman, fencing. I have qualifications including cs 30 & 31, lantra brushcutter, woodchipper, winching etc. I have lots of usefull equipment including 4 saws, tirfor winch, lugall winch, brushcutter, chainsaw mill, circular swing blade saw, logging arch, 4x4, trailer, lots of digging/landscaping tools. Am currently based in the south east but looking at working further west. Iterested in hearing about any opportunities or potential opportunities. Wouldn't mind having a go at tree planting if there's any of that going on down there?

Anyone have any thoughts on mine? Jplforestry It's a pretty simple site I just did in on my phone. Doubt I will get any sales or business from it yet but as I have quite figured out the search engine optimisation...

I can't make a comparison here as I have never done a direct test. But, in a cleft post I don't believe it can make much difference. Especially a quarter. I also think that the bark normally dries and splits fairly quickly and then it won't trap moisture in. If I was installing my own fencing I wouldn't be bothered about peeling. Even if it last an extra year or two, I am not sure it's cost effective. With regard to insects, lots of borers love sweet chestnut sapwood, so it will likely get some at some point peeled or unpeeled. Just my opinion.

I am not sure I would use wood for food/drink items but I don't think it can do that much harm. Lots of glasses/cups/enamel and crockery contains some unpleasant stuff. I was in California earlier this year and pretty much every food utensil in the shops had a sticker with a disclaimer saying that it contained chemicals know to cause cancer. At least wood is a natural product!

I just have my stuff on eBay, it does go eventually but it's a bit of a waiting game...

This is so true! I can never sell my milled timber for as much as it's supposedly worth...

It is true you might make more from logging it but there is more work involved with it. You have to cut it, split it, store it for a year, market and deliver it. So for instance you may get £200 for firewood or £100 from someone with a mill, but because there's less work in selling it as a but you get better value. I am not saying this is always the case but sometimes it is.

I would love to get my hands on some yew but I am no where close to you

Wait 10', 10" really would be pittiful!

Looks a bit pittiful in the photo but they are 10" long.

Here's my days work! Started at 8.30, finished around 12.00 got soaked to the skin and have up! Anyone want some nice 2" oak slabs?!

Ok, so my worst day, chainsaw milling, I got a late start, had to stop at the chainsaw shop to pick up some bits, got to site, set the ladder on the top of the tree, got the top off and then about a foot in to the first plank, my chain snapped. Days productivity-nil. I have never really chainsaw milled more than one big butt in one hit, it is easily possible but it's hard on your back and I get worried about hand arm vibration. My main sawmill now is a turbosaw swing blade circular saw. I can cut quite a lot if I have the saw set up and timber stacked in such a way that I can just roll it underneath. But often if I am on a big tree it can take half an hour or more to manouver a big butt under the mill using a hand winch and felling bar. Sorry I have never worked out my productivity in metres. Not close to four yet, but I am very inexperienced. Please don't laugh at my lack of productivity! I am chainsaw milling an oak tomorrow I will take some photos of my entire days work.

That's a very difficult question as so much depends on what spec you are cutting and also on the timber itself. If you have a huge section off log I find i am a lot more productive. Looking forward to hearing other peoples experiance.

Thanks for the advice. Any ideas how easy it is to get an idea of the colours from The end grain? Thanks