long wood

[Flintlock427]

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!   

[Kbeitz]

I have moved 30 foot beams ...

[Magicman]

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

[Flintlock427]

magicman you seem to be getting around good and its better to be worn out than the alternative . 

[WV Sawmiller]

   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.

[Flintlock427]

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 !

[Dave Shepard]

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.