red oak cut

[woodmills1]

here is a shot of the load of red oak i cut and hauled home in a few hours. gonna saw them for a customer who is doing a post and beam carrage house for a garage. over 100 pieces witht the largest an 8"x10"x12' girt. just for reference he is paying $64 for that piece. am i cheap or should i say a good value?

James "woody" Mills

 

[woodmills1]

another view

James "woody" Mills

 

[woodmills1]

in action

James "woody" Mills

 

[AndyR]

A real good value I'd say. If you are still cutting I may look you up next year when I get back to work on the barn.

Nice setup you've got there.

Andy in NH

 

[TWINKLE_TOES]

James,

<font color=blue>am i cheap or should i say a good value?</font color=blue>

I would never say you were cheap, but your oak is inexpensive. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
I think I'm getting a good deal @ $6.50 a board foot for finished red oak./w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif

Is there a dry kilm near you? How long does it take to air dry red oak?
Al

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Woody...

That looks like a great workhorse...

I couldn't get away from work a few weeks ago on a Saturday for a Kioti open house about 60 miles north of here... They had the brand new unit with cab and Perkins, maybe DK60/65?, don't remember model #.

I was really interested in the Perkins and the intro price was ~$25k w/heat/air/cab/55 PTO HP Perkins Turbo Kioti...

It looks like you are getting your money's worth with your's.../w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[woodmills1]

andy and t-toes, i will be cutting, as my plan is to stop teaching at the end of 2002-3 school year and do this full time. i have 85 acres of mixed forest, mostly oak but also some pine, birch, ash, maple. i can also buy most any native wood from a couple of sources. keep me in mind. I have much air dried stock on hand, and will be setting up a small kiln soon.

 

[JJT]

$.80/bf? Your tree or his? If it's your tree you are extremely cheap!

 

[beenthere]

As long as you are getting that equipment paid for, and your time, then you should be happy. And when you haul in the high value logs, you can bring in the firewood pieces too.
Seems some confusion between price/bd ft of log(tree) volume, and sawn, dried, surfaced price/bd ft. of high grade (#1C & btr) lumber. This is where you make your money and also invest your time and $$ into the cutting, hauling, sawing, stacking to air dry, re-stacking to kiln dry (in your house), sorting, grading, surfacing, and selling 5% of the log yield that makes FAS lumber for $6/bd.ft.
Its a fun hobby.

 

[woodmills1]

just so we are on the same page it is $.80 my logs. it pays for all time and equipment. but that is just this job. the last one was white quartered at $2.00. i would cut horse fence for a dollar if i had those customers. it always takes the same time to get the logs, but the quartered takes real time to cut. this job, all 8 by to 4 by will cut fast and leave me some nice outside 4/4 for a later sell. again to be sure this is not a hobby. i cut here and at sites. i sell off the mill and after drying or finishing.