Cedar Log prices vs selling 1x’s.

[Mark hershey]

Got this price sheet from a local cedar place that buys cedar logs. I'm getting a sawmill but wondering if anyone has insight into selling cedar boards? Like run an ad on Craigslist. I'm going to open some land up and of coarse creating logs. These cedar prices seem not so great but cant waste the logs. Would you mill the cedar or just let them go for these prices. When i was young we would work all day to fill a flatbed Chevy up just to split $75. Lol.


 

[Wlmedley]

How long are the posts.?

[Cedarman]

Most cedar scales are for 8' logs, so I would assume 8' plus a few inches. Measured outside bark to inside bark is most common way they are measured.  The scale works out to $.60 or $.696 per board foot. That is about right for our area.  Lumber is around $2.00 per board foot for good boards with very little wane or ingrown bark and sound knots.  Prices can vary all over the place though.
Mark, where you located?  That can make a big difference.

[Mark hershey]

How long are the posts.?

They buy 8'4".

[Mark hershey]

Most cedar scales are for 8' logs, so I would assume 8' plus a few inches. Measured outside bark to inside bark is most common way they are measured.  The scale works out to $.60 or $.696 per board foot. That is about right for our area.  Lumber is around $2.00 per board foot for good boards with very little wane or ingrown bark and sound knots.  Prices can vary all over the place though.
Mark, where you located?  That can make a big difference.

I am in Lewis co ky, north east kentucky. Cedar is like a weed here... Eastern red cedar, and i have a lot of shag hick, white oak, popular, walnut, maple, cherry, etc, but for some reason my cedar is what i am most attracted to. Love my cedar. I think if i start sawing it i will want to keep a lot. Lots of 10-14" at 4' from ground trees and straight,

  easy 2 logs per tree.

[stavebuyer]

Cedar logs will last a long time. I have had a pile sit for several years before I got to sawing them. Lose a little sapwood but they are light and no sap to gum things up. I'd certainly keep a few of the best if I had a mill coming but I would sell all the smaller and limby ones. Not much demand for 4"-5" wide boards with loose knots.

[Cedarman]

4x4x8' bring $14.00 to $18.00.  6" log makes a nice square one.
6x6x8 bring over $40.00 out of 9" log
I would look for markets before sawing.  
2x8x8 are great for garden beds.  Demand is high in spring for those.  Takes 10" or 11" log to make those.