Thread: Milling timber cost

Jason you are looking around $200-$250 per cubic metre of log to be sawn, or at the size you mentioned around about $24 - $29 each, not including if someone charges setup or travel fees, also not including any damage done to their gear if there is something foreign in the timber such as nails bullets screws stones etc.

Thanks, based on that, I my have to plan out more jobs, to spread the cost. Cheers jason

I don't know if this is any help to you.

I had some 50mmslabs split with a horizontal bandsaw locally about 2 years ago.
I had to take them to his yard. He charged me $70 per hour plus any blades that break.

I thought that was very reasonable pricing.

HTH
Col

I'm in Maitland and have a Lucas Mill. Problem with those sizes you would need a 10" machine, as the max you can get in one pass of the common 8" model is around 205mm. It would not be worth double cuts from both sides as it takes way too long and you get a lot of waste (as you can't do a double cut when the frame gets too low to the ground). We charge per day as it depends on each and every tree how long it takes to cut...we have had good days where we have milled many logs, and other days where we only got through two logs as the species and tension in the log caused us a lot of drama. Daily rate I believe is fair as it includes set up, any log handling that needs to be done and if you help, you get more timber milled in the day. If you don't want to help...that is fine also.