Price of wood?

Kiln Dried Cherry FAS is currently running about 5 to 5.50 Per Board foot for 4/4

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.

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...

Dried or green?

-- 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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If it is dried, yes. If it is not dried, no.

On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 01:32:11 GMT, Phisherman Crawled out of the shop and said. . .:

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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:

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

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