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Have to disagree there. Although I do like antique tables its the darkness that puts me off. You need to have the the right house for them and 99% of us dont. You need to get your eyes tested. Natural oak and Oiled Oak looks nothing like pine. I'll add I made neither of the tables Ive posted on this thread, neither are to my liking either really.

Sounds like when you buy Shell or Tesco Fuel. Its all came from the same Refinery, just different additives.

The Mills just got back to me. The Slabs are actually 5.5" thick and 3.3m long with the upper two measuring 36" across and the lower ones obviously tapering down. Happy days!

£25 a cubic foot seems to be the going rate for green hardwood slabs +/-. That price is to taking into account all the green Slab. So I was questioning your 'fact'. You reduced the volume of a 36" slab down to 24", using your time working in a Sawmill as a guide on how green Slab volumes should be calculated. We seem to be talking Apples with Oranges here. So I was trying to ascertain you're actual experiance in Milling and selling Hardwood Slabs for a market somewhat different to what you did in your youth. From what I can gather from your evasiveness is you clearly have a lot of knowledge and experience from working in a Sawmill but in a more niche market of selling live edge slabs you dont give the impression that you have much if any experience of this at all. If Im wrong I apologise, but I can only go on what little feedback you actually give. As you clearly have a lot of experience in sawmilling Im sure you could tell me if the losses you mention above are calculated into the selling price of the lumber that comes out of a log? A quick look on-line would seem to indicate so. For example, an Oak, rough sawn beam 6" x 6" x79" = 1.645ft3 and sells for £70. Thats £43 a cube. Significantly more than the £25 for a Green Slab. So one is the total volume and the other has factored in the losses already. So you reducing a 36" Slab width down to 24" based on your past experience is not discussing Apples with Apples. It's nothing to do with not liking your 'fact', just getting some clarity and discussing the differing ways of skinning a cat. Thank you for your contribution though, I'm sure your wealth of knowledge will be very helpful on this sub-forum.

That’s great. But I asked what slabs you mill and have for sale. At £25 a cubic foot minus 1/3rd volume and any defects cut off I’d like to see this stock you have. They must sell like hot cakes.

I think there is a matching crack of 12" at the other end now as well. I guess thats what happens when you bring a 15%mc Slab into a warm office. And if you look closely its a dirty site office, a few cracks is not really gonna bother them. Let me know when you're selling some Slabs, knowing you're gonna remove 1/3rd of its volume due to wane and sapwood and take off the lengths of any cracks sounds like there is some bargains to be had! Do you have any pictures of the Slabs you mill and sell?

You'll probably prefer this one then? 42" Oak Slab I milled a few years ago.

Even going by my bothers table there is significantly more than 24" of 'recoverable board'. When selling Slabs do you really remove so much for the customer and call a 36" Slab a 24" one? You're clearly very generous. Looking at my Brothers table there is not a a significant amount of sapwood or slant on the wane to justify reducing a 36" Slab down to a 24" one. Plus I was deliberately under sizing the volume. If we're gonna be pedantic I'll get an accurate dimension for you.

Last time I looked at my Tape Measure 36" is 3 foot wide.

When you put it that way. Id not pay £600 for a slab of it though. £200 yes. Thats £1600 for the log. His Boss paid £600, he'd have paid that for whatever he was told was worth it. Im paying for the storage and drying for the last 20 years more than anything. The Oak I last got from that barn was 15% MC. I'll assume these, even at 4" thick will be no different. Hardwood sells green £25 a cubic foot, give or take. There is 10 cubes in at least the middle two Slabs so thats £250 a pop right there, right off the mill.

Really? Never thought there was much of a market for Ash? My brothers taking half for making worktops for his new house. Will split his lot in half. 2" is plenty think. I'll have a nosy around the yard, everything else not deems worthwhile (like this) was dumped out in the rain. Shame really.

Customers seem to love it. That slab is the one that would have been sitting onto the stack we just bought, would never have thought 4 years later we'd have bought the rest.

A Sawmill I used to use in the past was clearing out one of their barns and Ive scored some Ash Slabs off of them. My brother bought one of them 4 years ago and paid £600 for it. The middle slices are at least 36" across, 4" thick and over 3m long. 5 all off of the same log. Best bit is they've been stored for 20 years in that barn. Paid £200 a slab and he threw in a couple of oak bits as well. The table was for my brothers boss who owns a Construction company, the name is down the H-Beam.

I should have added £65 per ton for Saw Logs, it was £45-£50 a ton for Firewood grade. Mixed hardwood firewood was £70 a ton and there is a few nice surprises in there that would make good milling as well.

Yeh, that sounds fair but he manages to pick jobs up like this all the time in London. Will be a mornings work.

Can you prove its them though? If you cant then you're showing your hand. They will obviously deny it and then be on the look out for retaliation. Revenge is best served cold so Id personally wait, check out where they have their camera's as surely after they have done something like this they are expecting retaliation and plan your revenge accordingly. Liberally spraying their garden with Round-up would be top of my list.

My Brothers doing a Grinding job early next week. Four 16" Stumps. Chips to be left, £850. £1500 for what you're planning seems crazy.

Bloody hell, thats good news. Like I said I did not put it though that much use really. Last 2 years and I maybe did 2-3 logs with it. Everything was in the first year of ownership really and then I bought my Bandsaw Mill so it took a back-seat. Very interesting that its on par with a 880 though. Was gonna buy a new 880 in the future if I ever started milling big logs again. I always assumed the 880 would have had a good bit more grunt.

I found Milling Beech could be a bitch. Seen sparks fly. Also found a stone in the middle of a Beech, thats always fun.

Its a good saw. Was great for Milling. Are you still gonna re-ring it right away?

No one really seems interested in beech. Shame really.

Very nice. Couple of Hundred each?

Ive lost a lot of faith in Scotland ever managing to go it alone to be honest. Thank goodness we're still in the Union and are leaving the EU, it would be a gut punch to have left the Union and had an independent Scotland only to be dragged back into the EU by crazy Jimmy. A vocal minority of Scottish people also seem to think the answer to all current problems is to lay the blame with the English, unfortunately this sizable minority are big enough to keep the SNP Nazi party in power.

My Logosol Trailer is plated for road use. Designed to keep the Mill and trailer under 750kg so does not need to be braked. Not cheap though but it is perfectly road legal. The Trailer is built by Knott. I have the first Generation B751 though, which is still available. You then order the Trailer though your dealer or cut out the middle man and order direct from either Knott or Logosol in Germany. The Pro version is newer but Id be very surprised if it is not road legal. Speak with Per and he'll keep you right.