Think I got screwed

[Ryan Willock]

Ah yes, nothing like a good dry holeing from the sawmills!!!:jawdrop: A little lube helps but mills are good for that especially if they know they have a first timer! The log market does suck right now though. I mean bad suck! Thats why I've all but quit logging. I did have two crews going a year and a half ago but have since shut them down and sold all the equipment except for a dozer with a winch. Next time go to the mill BEFORE you cut/bring in logs and ask to speak with the log buyer. Get him to show you how HE grades and scales the logs and how HE likes to see them bucked. Also get a spec sheet while you are there, go home and order a log rule that uses the same measure as what the mill buyes with. Then you can do your own grading and scaling before you haul so that you have some idea as to what you have. With hardwood logs bucking at the wrong spot can REALLY kill the value of the tree. What part of Va are you it?

 

[PA Plumber]

i've got a black walnut log. it is about 18 ft long and 24" wonder what that is worth?

Sounds like the answere is...

What ever the mill is willing to pay.

 

[Rftreeman]

here is some advice I got from guys here, ask the mill what scale they use and get you a rule stick and then you can figure the board feet before you go and you will know if you got paid for it all, I personaly think you got screwed, as state before, I think you got paid for the #1 and nothing else, this happens a lot to people who don't understand how things work.

 

[cantcutter]

I took a few logs to a mill about 2 winters ago. 2 logs were 8 footers, but both were clean and 850 bd ft when put together. The remainder of the logs brought it to 1250 bd ft. I even went into the yard with the guy while he scaled it. I got grade 1 on the big 2 because they weren't long enough... I had issues there. The others went pallet grade. They gave me $450. Trucking was $500. I owed them money afterwards. Black oak at the time was somewhere around $1,200 / MBF for veneer... the guy even said they would have come in as veneer if they hadn't been cut to 8'. You wanna talk about mad??? :angry2: I only cut them that length because his truck driver wouldn't lift it.

Our local veneer plant only buys 12 ft logs.... if its not 12 ft its not veneer. Sounds to me like you sold to a log yard? You could do better if you sell directly to the mill and aviod the middle man... a sawmill will not grade anylog as veneer because they don't cut veneer and a veneer plant will not buy sawgrade logs. it requires that you have some basic knowlwge of log grading so you can do the sorting on the landing.