Cutting some pretty red oak off of this job, just wish the red oak market was doing better.
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Red oak is down all over. The Chinese have the shipping chain clogged up.
Wonder when there gonna get it cleared up its killing me I'm getting.60 a foot for number one red oak this time last year it was a $1 a foot
Mature red oaks won't keep forever. Mine get big and then they get hollow. I don't know how many years it takes before one becomes the other. :-\
This one was sound no shake at all very nice color no stain would make a nice veneer log
nice, very nice...
Rob, we need to get you out to the midwest where trees grow free on private property. ;D ;D ;D
Veneer red oak is still $1.20 here.It was 1.50
Wow.. :)
Wow.. :)
Wish there was a buyer here in eastern KY for veneer red oak
Aren't most of the veneer mills in Indiana? Not so far away if you could get together a load. Might be worth investigating,
Grade lumber has been in a downward spiral for several months. Equal to $20/ton price cut for logs at our mill.
Quote from: Birchwood Logging on June 09, 2015, 09:05:31 AM
Wish there was a buyer here in eastern KY for veneer red oak
bring it up here? what you doin with it?
You sure get to cut some nice sticks.
Nice stick and here in Ohio the red oak market has tightened up also. Seems like what ever I have the most of that's what goes down in price ;D.
Thanks Ken we have been blessed to get to cut some nice private tracks of timber
Yea I know what you mean about the price of red oak I took a load to morehead ky. today and.60 cents was top price there
have you guys got an export buyer there? or are you selling to local mills?
There's no export buyers around here anymore that I can find. I hate to sell it for that so it don't take long before they become tie logs that I bring home to saw
How many bd ft was in it?
There was a little over 1400 feet in the whole tree
Quote from: East ky logging on June 10, 2015, 10:18:12 PM
There's no export buyers around here anymore that I can find. I hate to sell it for that so it don't take long before they become tie logs that I bring home to saw
thats what we are doing with oak too. ties are averaging $150-$200 per mbdft than the oak lumber so im cutting every tie i can but every once i awhile their will be a cherry bark thats so pretty i just cant make myself do it so it makes 4/4 ;D :)
i feel fortunate for the good buyer i have here. our prices never seem to hit the high some of you see, but they stay consistent most of the time.