portable saw mill for the lumber?

[jerryb]

A white oak that large, if it is good quality, is one of the most marketable logs out there right now.

given its too big for you to cut you might call around to the lumber buyers in your area. A large high grade white oak could pay for the sawmill.

I buy locally milled lumber from an amish owned sawmill. I can get lots of nice wood there for $.75-$1 per bf, but not white oak, he sells the white oak logs to the mills who make quarter sawn board for the furniture trade. he tells me that a good quality white oak will wholesale around $0.80 bf right now.

at the prices he charges me for offcuts (usually 15 to 20 cents a bf) I can't afford a sawmill and chain saw, even though my buddy would give me free logs for helping him keep his farm woodlot cleaned up.

just a thought,
Jerry

 

[mohillbilly]

I am going to cut some cants out of it and quarter saw them I already talked with sawmills here and they can't cut it either unless it is first cut into quarter cants . since I can cut it myself once it is in quarter cants I am going to cut it on my mill...at least I did find out how to cut it up with my saw.

 

[jerryb]

I hope it works out for you,and do be careful, that's a lot of wood to be working with. I would not want you to have an accident.

Jerry