Log Deck - Value/Usefulness/Pricing?

[DanielW]

I'm not sure if this is the right place or an appropriate question to ask on here, but I figured if anyone could help me, the folks on here could

A few years ago I built several modular log decks. I wanted two for myself, but I ended up making five; I had drawn up the parts in CAD and sent the templates for all plate parts off to the local shop where I get work done on a plasma table and CNC saw. Half of my cost for the parts is the initial setup, so it's much more cost-efficient to build several at the same time (ex. it might cost, say, $500 for the parts to build one deck, and only $800 for the parts to build 5 decks if done at the same time).

I welded them up, kept two for myself, and gave another to a friend to use with his bandmill. I still have two sitting unused in the barn. A local hobby sawyer recently saw mine and wants to buy my extra ones. My question to you folks: What do you think it's worth me charging? I know the 'proper' thing to do would be to figure out my material costs, approximate how much time I spent assembling them, and charge accordingly for what I feel is fair. But a few factors make this hard to do:

i) I bought the steel before the whole Covid thing, back before steel prices skyrocketed.
ii) My cost for the parts to build 5 was significantly less than it would be for me to build just one, as per above setup time discussion. So I'm not sure if my price should reflect the cost if I built just one, or my cost because I forked out the initial dough to build five at once.
iii) I'm not really in this to make money, and wouldn't mind freeing up the space in my barn.
iv) I've completely forgot how long I spent assembling them and only have a vague idea what I paid for the steel.

They're not fancy, but decently built. All heavy wall structural tubing and 1/2" plate. Arms are self locking when you pivot them up; you lift them to unlock them and pivot them down onto the mill - that way you don't accidentally have logs rolling into you when your back's to it. Adjustable legs for uneven ground with large, formed base-plates to prevent them sinking into loose soil, adjustable width (I usually set them so I can just drop my logging forks down between them). Any ideas on a very ballpark-ish price for me to charge would be greatly appreciated.

Unfortunately I don't have a great picture of them, just the two above. One is the CAD model of it, the other is one of the ones I use (with a crude Tremclad paint job) when I took it to a local antique show with one of my little Bellsaws.

[Wlmedley]

That's a really nice log deck which would be nice for someone who has a manual mill. I have one built similar that I built out of wood but mine never gets moved. I don't have any idea what you will able to sell them for but I'd imagine that they would work out pretty well. 

[doc henderson]

I would price the steel now and price it relative to what it would cost them now in materials and guess on the labor.

[Peter Drouin]

I asked WM about a 12' one, They wanted $12,500.

[beenthere]

Agree with Doc's suggestion. 
Estimate what it will cost someone else to make "one" as you know what the steel will cost today, and how much labor to assemble. Good luck, but in the end do what makes you feel good with whatever you may end up with. Let the buyer decide what they will feel good with. 

[Nebraska]

Well if I were closer I'd be interested in one.