"Traves W. Coppock" wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 01:32:11 GMT, Phisherman <[email protected]>
> Crawled out of the shop and said. . .:
>
> snip
>
> >If it is dried, yes. If it is not dried, no.
>
> why not?
> if you have the space to let it dry, and the patience to let it do
> so,,,its a steal!
>
> Traves
Not really. A little over a year ago I bought a felled cherry log and
had a sawyer mill it to 5/4 stock. The yield was about 1400 bd/ft. My
cost, including the sawyer's fee, was $600 or just under $0.43 bd/ft.
End sealer, purchasing stickers, and constructing an elevated platform
sticker outside, corrugated steel to cover the pile added another
$300. That's not mentioning the time to air dry it.
$1.50 for green cherry is expensive.
--
Jack Novak
Buffalo, NY - USA
In rec.woodworking
"Ron Stitt" <[email protected]> wrote:
>I have bought a small amount of rough cut cherry (bandsawed). The farmer I
>bought it from is charging $1.50 a board ft. (not linear ft.) The boards are
>4 to 8 inches wide, 1 inch thick and 8 ft. long. Is this a good price or
>not? Does anybody know?
Let's put it this way. I'll take all he's got at that price. It runs $4 a
bd ft and up at lumber yards.
--
In His Name, be Blessed,
It can be a good price, but go to a lumber yard where the actually cut rough
lumber or call around and ask them.. Here in North Western North Carolina
rough Cherry goes for $1.00 /bf. unfortunately when you buy it around here
they want you to buy a thousand bf.. I must admit I like cherry as much as
the next fellow, but not 1,000 bf of the stuff..
God Bless,
Mike
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"Ron Stitt" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I have bought a small amount of rough cut cherry (bandsawed). The farmer I
> bought it from is charging $1.50 a board ft. (not linear ft.) The boards
are
> 4 to 8 inches wide, 1 inch thick and 8 ft. long. Is this a good price or
> not? Does anybody know?
>
> Thanks Ron
>
On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 01:32:11 GMT, Phisherman <[email protected]>
Crawled out of the shop and said. . .:
snip
>If it is dried, yes. If it is not dried, no.
why not?
if you have the space to let it dry, and the patience to let it do
so,,,its a steal!
Traves
Traves asks:
>snip
>
>>If it is dried, yes. If it is not dried, no.
>
>why not?
>if you have the space to let it dry, and the patience to let it do
>so,,,its a steal!
Nah. You always have some losses in drying, end checking and such. Thus, it's
worth more if the losses are already taken into consideration.
AFAIC, green cherry is worth about 80 cents a board foot.
Charlie Self
"The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf."
Will Rogers
Kiln Dried Cherry FAS is currently running about 5 to 5.50 Per Board foot
for 4/4
"Ron Stitt" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I have bought a small amount of rough cut cherry (bandsawed). The farmer I
> bought it from is charging $1.50 a board ft. (not linear ft.) The boards
are
> 4 to 8 inches wide, 1 inch thick and 8 ft. long. Is this a good price or
> not? Does anybody know?
>
> Thanks Ron
>
"Ron Stitt" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I have bought a small amount of rough cut cherry (bandsawed). The farmer I
> bought it from is charging $1.50 a board ft. (not linear ft.) The boards
are
> 4 to 8 inches wide, 1 inch thick and 8 ft. long. Is this a good price or
> not? Does anybody know?
>
> Thanks Ron
>
If it is good wood, in other words has been treated well from harvesting
through sawing through drying, and looks good then that is probably an
excellent price. On the other hand, if it has been abused in any major way
and you don't know about it and you waste your time and materials making a
project from it that winds up as firewood then it is wildly overpriced. In
other words, quality not quantity is what matters. I have bought excellent
roughsawn cherry for around $2.00/bf and poor for $5.00...
--
John McGaw
[Knoxville, TN, USA]
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On Sun, 05 Oct 2003 20:46:08 GMT, "Ron Stitt" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>I have bought a small amount of rough cut cherry (bandsawed). The farmer I
>bought it from is charging $1.50 a board ft. (not linear ft.) The boards are
>4 to 8 inches wide, 1 inch thick and 8 ft. long. Is this a good price or
>not? Does anybody know?
>
>Thanks Ron
If it is dried, yes. If it is not dried, no.
Dried or green?
--
Mike G.
Heirloom Woods
www.heirloom-woods.net
"Ron Stitt" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I have bought a small amount of rough cut cherry (bandsawed). The farmer I
> bought it from is charging $1.50 a board ft. (not linear ft.) The boards
are
> 4 to 8 inches wide, 1 inch thick and 8 ft. long. Is this a good price or
> not? Does anybody know?
>
> Thanks Ron
>