Hello all,
I recently started milling with an ms660 and a panther chainsaw mill. I Started out as a firewood guy but felt bad hacking up some beautiful white oaks and maples for firewood. Looked into a bandsaw mill but I ended up with a chainsaw mill instead. Production wise it's not efficient, which was fine at the time, I figured if I sold a slab or two here and there it's all gravy, just a couple extra bucks in my pocket. Now I'm looking to turn this into a profitable operation on my days off/ weekends. I'm currently sitting on 3 large white oak logs and 2 nice red oak logs. I'm having a hard time deciding how to mill them. I'm set up for slabs, but I think it's worth more as quarter sawn lumber. I'm stuck as to what I should do? I can't swing a bandsaw at the moment but I could get one in a year or so.
What's more valuable ~30" wide white oak slabs or quarter sawn white oak?
I recently started milling with an ms660 and a panther chainsaw mill. I Started out as a firewood guy but felt bad hacking up some beautiful white oaks and maples for firewood. Looked into a bandsaw mill but I ended up with a chainsaw mill instead. Production wise it's not efficient, which was fine at the time, I figured if I sold a slab or two here and there it's all gravy, just a couple extra bucks in my pocket. Now I'm looking to turn this into a profitable operation on my days off/ weekends. I'm currently sitting on 3 large white oak logs and 2 nice red oak logs. I'm having a hard time deciding how to mill them. I'm set up for slabs, but I think it's worth more as quarter sawn lumber. I'm stuck as to what I should do? I can't swing a bandsaw at the moment but I could get one in a year or so.
What's more valuable ~30" wide white oak slabs or quarter sawn white oak?