How to sell very large cheery log

wilson ind · Mar 30, 2019

I will soon have a cheery log 30 to 36 inches diameter. question is how and where should I sell this log, Qptions are sell as cut, havoc log cut in boards leavings as 30 or so slabs? Possibly some four inch thick slabs for mantels? What would you fine folks recommend?

JOCCO · Mar 30, 2019

Check the market and line things up Before you cut it No pointin sawing it into boards if someone wants plank.

Janicholson · Mar 30, 2019

If it is solid, sell it to a company that will spin it into veneer. It is worth way, way more made into laminated hardwood. Jim
Starting point

ss55 · Mar 30, 2019

Dito on look into if the log is veneer quality. If it is veneer quality, its value jumps.

farmer656 · Mar 30, 2019

Check with Kimball International in Jasper Indiana, I had friends in the logging business that is where they sold there cherry logs

GEO-TH, In · Mar 30, 2019

Bill,
If it's a yard tree, good luck.

T know a man with a bandsaw sawmill. He'll not pay for my yard trees. Instead he'll bring me some of the lumber. He'll also pick them up. His sawmill mill is a few miles away.

I recently had electric company cut down my walnut tree, too close to power lines. Log was hollow. So how can anyone tell you what something is worth until it ran through the mill?
George

Traditional Farmer · Mar 30, 2019

Used to be a furniture factory near Union WV that was paying $2500 a thousand for Veneer quality cherry.

Ultradog MN · Mar 30, 2019

Good advice below.
What I'm wondering is how you tell a cheery log from a morose one.
Wink

JMS./MN · Mar 30, 2019

By its smile....

redforlife · Mar 30, 2019

What ever you do, sell it as a log. Don't cut it up yourself. You don't know how user is going to want it cut up. Sell to someone who is in the log sawing and lumber selling business.

RedMF40 · Mar 30, 2019

(quoted from post at 10:39:02 03/30/19) Good advice below.
What I'm wondering is how you tell a cheery log from a morose one.
Wink

The Morose one will have more bark ( it's a stretch, I know )

DoubleO7 · Mar 30, 2019

(quoted from post at 12:09:14 03/30/19) If it is solid, sell it to a company that will spin it into veneer. It is worth way, way more made into laminated hardwood. Jim
Starting point

My Dad and Uncle sold off the timber on about 10 acres.
20 years ago off the family farm.
County forester told them it should have been done 40 years earlier .
One tree was some species of oak that was 300 miles north of it's known range. He could not find any others of the same species on the property.
That tree alone was valued at more than all of the other trees being harvested.
The winning bidder paid more than twice over the other bidders.
And he brought in a hydraulic crane on tracks to harvest the three 16 foot logs from that one tree.
Forester figured the logs went to Japan for furniture veneer .

But like mentioned, a lot of timber buyers will not buy a yard tree. Or even a load of logs brought in by someone they have not bought from before.

Traditional Farmer · Mar 30, 2019

All big mills have metal detectors these days

2x4 · Mar 31, 2019

NEVER make a cheery log into a cross tie.

RedMF40 · Mar 31, 2019

(quoted from post at 23:41:39 03/30/19) NEVER make a cheery log into a cross tie.

Ha ha ha GOOD ONE!

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