Go ahead and post your guesses below. I'll call the mill in a week or so and report back the actual Scribner Total. No, you can not win the gift card - that was for the Lane County Logging Show here in Oregon this week.
For context, there are 12 board-feet in a cubic foot, so 83,333 cubic feet (of sawn lumber, no air, no bark) in a million board feet, or a cube of solid wood 44’ wide, high, and deep. If that load were 8’ x 10’ x 60’ and were solid, it would have 57,600 board feet (or 57.6 MBF). So something less, like 35,250 board feet.
Tough to figure without measurements but it looks like the one on the lower left has a lot of taper and you scale from the small end I am going to guess @16700 on scribner scale
Ok, called the mill - here's the answer: 5550 board feet net scale. Gross scale was 6460' with a 14% discount for defects, mostly pitch and conk. 3 of the four logs were 40' the other was 36'. Swanson Brothers Lumber Company is a high grade long length Douglas Fir cutting mill based in Noti, Oregon. And GOOD people! Thanks for playing to those who had balls enough to make a guess. Looks like XXL was the closest.
Yes I figured they were were 50 ft the small ends must have been a lot smaller than they looked in the picture it is amazing how much you lose with the taper also they might have scaled more if they had cut them shorter maybe less defect deduction thanks for the Game it was fun JB I was also comparing to triaxle loads of logs I get some loads scale 3800 bdft thanks again
At more than double it wasn't a very good guess. I did figure the one log to be 40' and the other to about 32' but I guess my diameters were off.
it makes a big difference a 30inch log at 10 ft has 410bdft scribner scale a 25inch at 10 ft is only 290 bd ft around here I use doyle scale it works out better for small logs JB
