What can I do with the wood?

[Shayne Picard]

I realize this may be very basic, but please bear with me.

My brother has five white pines in his yard that I will be taking down for him. The DBH are 13", 21", 23", 23", and 26" respectively. The trees are fairly straight.

My question is, what can I do with the wood? Can I sell it to a mill or is it junk?

If I can sell it, how does the process work? Do we typically deliver to them, or do they pick up?

When cutting, is there a certain length that is best? Are cuts measured from the bottom up (to ensure the thickest section has proper length) or in some other fashion?

I realize that many of these questions are moot if the wood is scrap, but any advice or direction will be appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[roxy]

Your best bet is to find someone before you cut them, maybe they'll do a pick up and save you some work, or perhaps a local sawyer will be interested and, again, save you some work. Generally, lengths of 8-12 feet, cut out any bends, paint or wax coat the ends ASAP. Pine won't be in high demand, so could be you'll have to locate your local cabinet maker/sawyer to unload them. If they are forest grown they won't have hardware embedded, so that's a postive. They are not junk, but you gotta find an appreciative audience. Kudos for the extra effort; I absolutely hate the quanity of unused tree material we toss. Tragic. Rebecca

 

[Mark Chisholm]

I think that many will pay for it if you deliver, but will take it for free if they pick it up. Most mills like longer logs like 16'6"... Any length of good timber will get you money if it's cut to an even number like 8'6", 10'6"....

 

[Shayne Picard]

Thank you Rebecca and Mark.

I'll make some calls and see what I can find.

 

[acushman]

call jim ripley in hanson mass. i used to sell all my pine to him. most of the time he would pick up all the logs and sell them to the mills in maine and canada. he would give you a price per board ft and take off the trucking and give you a chweck for the balance.
pretty sweet way to make a couple bucks and get rid of the big wood.

 

[Shayne Picard]

Where were you in MA? Hanson is about an hour away from me; do you think he'd drive that far?