Nice hoard! Looks like you have some nice trees too. That should be the last wood you'll ever need to buy, hopefully! Plan to do any of the milling yourself? I have a couple nice locust logs that I want to make some 4x6 posts out of. I think they'll either become part of the frame for my expanded back deck, or a wood shed.
I need to convince myself that I should get another sawmill. I used to have a Wood Mizer bandmill and I sold it, so it's either buy another mill or hire someone.
If you can load and transport it, I'm sure you can find a place to take it. There's an Amish fellow who many people around here take their logs to. He also has lumber for sale and will buy standing timber. I'm taking the third option - "the poor man's band mill". I'm using an Alaskan mill to saw cants that I can handle in my vertical bandsaw. Probably a lot more work, but I enjoy it. Plus it's a good excuse to get a big chainsaw.
Upset wife reminds me of this evening. I am retired and mine was asking what I had been up to today during supper. I told her I had been designing a wood shed to hold our fire wood for 3 years, fall, next year and year after. I presently only have about a half cord in good shape for this fall and she told me no way I needed more than twice that much for any year so I could keep the shed very small. What is she going to think when I build a shed designed to hold 3 years at about 3 cords per year?
With the winters we've been having lately, I think she'll come around to the idea of that good old wood heat. A nicely designed shed packed full of splits sure would make a nice landscape feature in my yard.
I bought it all on purpose. I could have done without it, instead focusing on cleaning up my own property, but the offer was too good to pass up. I got another 3+ cords of black locust yesterday morning, with a couple nice 10-12" dia. sticks of cherry thrown in.
Nice you saved the Butternut for lumber vs firewood,they are getting very scarce thanks to Butternut Canker.Populations down up to 90% since the early 90's in several states with no treatment or cure found yet unfortunately.The wood is pretty pricey now when found in good quality/sizes.I still have a few 2" planks & a couple 4 x 6 beams bought back before the disease was found & when the wood was comparably cheap.
