I picked up my black walnut for my place today and found what I consider to be the steal of the year (so far) The sawmill needed to make some hackberry timbers and sliced off all the nice outside boards into 4/4 inch thick boards.. Unless someone intercedes they are headed for the pallet mill at 17 cents a bd. ft.
17 cents!
These were nice white boards that much of them I would have graded FAS while there were some brown splotches in some of them there was enough all white boards to attract my attention..
Seventeen cents a bd. ft. means a 1 inch thick board that was say 15 inches wide and 8 feet long (actually about 8’6″) would cost $1.70
These are rough and green at the sawmill (in Cannon Falls Minnesota) Johnson Bros logging to be exact.. There are two bunkers of around 800 bd.ft. (my estimation , I didn’t notice exactly how many bd.ft.)
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What kind of timeframe? I need to get some cherry and may consider a run down there.
Thanks
-Kurt
kdk,
Timeframe?
well once it's at the pallet mills it's too late..
as for getting cherry from them, it depends on when they are going to be sawing cherry again.. right now cherry prices are pretty depressed with FAS going for as little as $1.55 a bd.ft. thus they are tending to leave the trees in the woods untill prices rebound back to more normal levels (around $1.85 to $1.95)
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