Pine slabs update

[Bruno of NH]

I have some 2 inch and 21/2 inch x 26 inch pine slabs .
Can they be dried in a kiln ?
Thanks Bruno

[WDH]

I do it.  Best to pre-air dry for 6 - 8 weeks, then into the kiln. 

[Bruno of NH]

Thanks WHD
I will try to find a kiln in my area .
I would like to build some things with them for the holiday market .

[Bruno of NH]

What would the cost be to dry 10 pine slabs 2 inches x 25 inches x 10 foot long ?

[Jim_Rogers]

Bruno:
I have a contact phone number of a fellow in Madbury, NH who does custom drying. PM me and I'll share it with you.

Jim Rogers

[Bruno of NH]

Had the slabs in 2 classified papers got a call the first day and sold one green for $40.00 bucks .
I hope to get some big red oak to put into slabs :)

[Bruno of NH]

Hi Folks
Still having a good run on the pine slabs
The building supply place i do business with let me put one on display by their entry door
Sold 4 in one week for me they pay me what i want and they get the mark up they want
They also ask me to saw custom thing for them when they need them
Works out good for both of us 

[logboy]

A pine slab in the size you mentioned has around 41 bdft in it, which means youre selling them for less than a dollar a bdft. Which begs the question, why are you selling them so cheap? Even the Amish here are selling theirs for $2 a bdft. I'm double that for kiln dried (the only way I sell). Even then the only way I make money is because I sell quite a few of them.

[Bruno of NH]

Logboy
I don't pay much for the logs that i cut the slabs out of if any thing at all.
Lots of time people i know in the tree service business drop them off for free the big mill here wont take them
Bruno

[bkaimwood]

A pine slab in the size you mentioned has around 41 bdft in it, which means youre selling them for less than a dollar a bdft. Which begs the question, why are you selling them so cheap? Even the Amish here are selling theirs for $2 a bdft. I'm double that for kiln dried (the only way I sell). Even then the only way I make money is because I sell quite a few of them.

Things are good for the Amish in Wisconsin...around here, there are Amish and other mills selling EWP and hemlock between .40-.60 cents a foot...considering it often cost me .35-.45 cents a foot to get it to the mill, I'm at a buck a foot on most EWP...and I know I lose sales because of my competitors low prices, but that's fine. I make it up elsewhere. I double my price for KD...