I'm hoping logs come much cheaper than this?

[rocklock]

120 logs, 38ft long, 12in min on the small end. This is what I got back: "Those are very big logs. It will take six trips to haul them, and I can quote them at $3375 per load. "
What I would like to pay for all the logs I need is under $10,000, but maybe I'm dreaming.

6 trips for 120 -12" logs sounds a bought right. My logs were mostly 10 and 11's and I got 25 logs on each truck. I also paid $300 buck to haul them approx. 50 miles.

Read up an Scribner method of getting board feet from logs. If I remember correctly, a 12 inch top, 40 feet long will yield 200 board feet. At $925 per (thousand), I paid $216. If I built my home with 12" tops I would have used 52 logs or $11,232.

My log stack had 54 wall logs, 2 cap logs, 1 ridge pole and 3 girder logs or 60 logs. If I were building with 12" logs the number would have been 46 +2 + 1 + 3 = 52.

[thoner7]

Just saw you are near Niagara Falls. I wonder if it would make any sense for a bunch of the east coast members to haul in some big logs by train. Maybe some big Cypress from the Carolinas or something.

[thoner7]

I routinely pay $200-250 a log for 40 logs with a 14" top and 20"+ bottom for my builds

Any idea what the loggers pay the landowners for those trees? I have a potential lead where I would buy them from a landowner then pay a logger to get them to my land.

[rckclmbr428]

Stumpage rates vary by area and species, check with the local forester

[panderson03]

we paid $2 per foot. each of our 40 ft logs was $80. you can do better!

[etd66ss]

we paid $2 per foot. each of our 40 ft logs was $80. you can do better!

How did you manage that?

[panderson03]

put ads in the local community newspapers. found a guy who used his logs to make and sell firewood.

[etd66ss]

put ads in the local community newspapers. found a guy who used his logs to make and sell firewood.

May I ask what species you used?

[panderson03]

we used red pine

[etd66ss]

we used red pine

Ok, thanks. Red pine is not generally used for firewood around here on account of chimney fires. It works in outdoor burners though I had quite a few red pine that blew over on my lot, they rotted very fast, have to get the bark off of those quick.