In the past I have had a friend make boards for me with his portable sawmill. This spring I informed him that I had 4000 board feet of pine and over 1000 b.f. of hardwood to cut. He informed me of his new rate per b.f. and I was kind of taken back. His rate had gone up so much in the past year it was now cost effective to have a log truck take the wood to a local mill. So what are you guys charging per b.f. to saw lumber on site?
I looked around for another person to do it on site with a portable mill and found someone who quoted me a reasonable rate in my mind. He just finished and I was a bit taken back by the bill. The bill was for much more board feet than expected. I did expect an additional 20% from my scaled qty but it was way over that. I measured up the stickered piles and came darn close to the 120% number. So I am trying to figure out where the extra b.f. are. On the last day of milling he had complained a bit about the log lengths. I was in a rush the day I had skid out the logs and just told my father to cut logs oversized for 8',10', 12' etc lengths. Most of the logs ended up with close to a foot extra. I recalculated the b.f. including an extra foot on every board and still did not reach the qty on the bill.
So should I expect to pay for the extra length on the boards? Should I pay for extra length over say 6"? What do you charge for stickers?
I looked around for another person to do it on site with a portable mill and found someone who quoted me a reasonable rate in my mind. He just finished and I was a bit taken back by the bill. The bill was for much more board feet than expected. I did expect an additional 20% from my scaled qty but it was way over that. I measured up the stickered piles and came darn close to the 120% number. So I am trying to figure out where the extra b.f. are. On the last day of milling he had complained a bit about the log lengths. I was in a rush the day I had skid out the logs and just told my father to cut logs oversized for 8',10', 12' etc lengths. Most of the logs ended up with close to a foot extra. I recalculated the b.f. including an extra foot on every board and still did not reach the qty on the bill.
So should I expect to pay for the extra length on the boards? Should I pay for extra length over say 6"? What do you charge for stickers?