Thread: would you pay??

Yep that a great price pine if you dont want it all you could sell some to other woodies that might be local to you, maybe get a hand as far as the labour goes

Cheers Ian

Originally Posted by Ivor

I have just been offered about 4 cubic metres of of air-dried Pinus radiata ofvarious sizes cut from a non-plantation tree about 7 years ago. The guy wants $150 if I move it. It looks like a bargain but I normally only work with natives, hardwoods mainly.

I suppose the main thing I would use it for would be some cupboard doors in the hallway for starts, but I really don't like working with pine. Would I be an idiot to refuse????

Considering that radiata cost about $3-400 a cube from a mill wholesale it's a good price. Bewarned that air-dried radiata in some cases never dries. Had some that had been milled 5 years ago, went to put it through the planer and spent an hour afterwards cleaning the sap from the feed rollers. Personally I would grab it, keep it racked out and Dream of all of the projects that you will be able to make.

Rowan

At first glance, it seems a reasonable price. Non-plantation pine usually has, in my experience, a finer grain and less knots per LM than force-grown. Being air-dried is also an advantage, provided it hasn't been left to check. All round, 'tis much nicer stuff to work with.

There's a few other things to consider though... the sizes of the pieces for one. Are the pieces large enough to get usable timbers from? If they're more than 6" across in their smallest dimension, then after 7 years they've only just barely finished curing. (BTW, this doesn't mean no sap, this simply means it's reached EMC.) Anything larger will need further drying time.

Assuming the timbers good and is of usable size and also assuming I had somewhere to store it, then I personally'd go for it. Even if it ain't fully dried you can split it down to rough sizes for quicker drying and simply rack it in a shed for another year or so.

It could always be used for internal carcassing, if nothing else...

I reckon go for it, firewood is at a premium up your way during the winter isn't it?.......what I'm saying is even though it's pinus price is definitely right

go grab it tommorrow, wack it away and u will have a life times supply of the stuff to do practice runs with.

We have just finished milling a huge amount of pinus and we have sold most of it to high schools as they usually dont have wholesale contacts,the students learn how to rack out timber and follow the process from tree to cabinet taking video diary of their effort.Their big problem was finding square stock for legs so we milled to their requirements so now they have a few years supply of leg material for their projects,They were very happy with the quality we sold them and at $400 per cube delivered offered to us we looked after them and have sold over half of the stock we salvaged from the trees which were going to be burned.
So in brief if you have surplus timber stock go see some high schools and you may get rid of some unwanted material at a reasonable price and i am sure the students would apreciate it................

Reguards Tasman

Just went a looked at the wood, and it's mostly 6x1s and 6x2s, so I reckon I'll go for it. Thanks for the advice guys.

Cheers

Originally Posted by Ivor

Just went a looked at the wood, and it's mostly 6x1s and 6x2s, so I reckon I'll go for it. Thanks for the advice guys.

Cheers

Just rack it up in the hydro workshop, they won't mind. (in joke)