Long wood ,is there a market for 40 to 50 foot wood .I am thinking about buying more bed sections for my lt15 ,I have cut a lot of 24 foot logs and know how much trouble they are to handle .magicman you are my hero I hope to grow up just like you!
I have moved 30 foot beams ...
If you do you will soon be 75 years old and getting more worn out as each day passes.
Anyway, Welcome to the FF. smiley_old_guy
magicman you seem to be getting around good and its better to be worn out than the alternative .
Long wood like that should demand a very high premium but I would not buy the extra mill sections or cut any until I knew I had a dependable market for it. I bet buyers are few and far between.
I'm sitting here looking up at a 24" X 6" X 36' laminated wooden beam and there are two of them in my house but I bet the log home builder who put them in does not sell/use an awful lot of them every year.
What kind of support equipment do you have to handle, store and transport long beams or boards like that? I would definitely start with log home builders for such specialty products and see what they could use and would be willing to pay. Good luck.
I have 2 backhoes and several tractor ,no fel on the tractors yet but the backhoe will pick up anything I have .I am not doing this for a living but don't mind making extra money are extra stuff !
Depending on the size of the timber, logs in the 40' to 50' range are going to weigh 3,500 to 6,000 pounds, and that's for pine. A log that will make a 50' 12"x12", will have a butt diameter of about 3 or 3 1/2 feet. They can be a pain even on a larger mill.
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