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Sawn softwood batten 88mmx36mmx2.4m = 0.0076m3 each.
1m3/0.0076m3=131.5 lengths of sawn softwood per m3 of wood.
At £6.99 each, that means a m3 of sawn, planed wood is worth £919.18p.
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And I'm guessing 6.99 each is from a DIY shed rather than a timber merchant so there's plenty markup there too.
Yarp and cheers.
have you got a cubic metre of wood you are trying to sell?
So get yourself down to a decent timber merchant and save a packet. The wood will probably be fairly straight too, unlike 99% of the stuff in the sheds.
Nah, I am trying to avoid looking a tool infront of a buch of maths teachers 😉
Well you wouldn't stand out Matt. 😀
What you are doing is arithmetic not mathematics, just saying ... I'll get my coat 😳
I think your sums are correct.
If I'm making doors or windows from softwood, I would always buy sawn battens that have been hanging around in a timber merchant; you know that once planned up they're not going to move much more. The straight planned stuff you get there however, has been machined green and is too unstable for doors and windows.
For pine doors I've stored the sawn battens indoors with the heating on for a week and then planned them!
Kiln dried Douglas Fir in 38mm battens costs about £900/m cubed,by contrast.
Best bit is that near £1k of wood is only worth about £36 standing in a forest at the moment...
If it's more of a wood question than a maths question, timber pricing is really quite complicated (used to work on software for buying and selling the stuff, the excitement I know!).
alfabus - Member
have you got a cubic metre of wood you are trying to sell?
I'd be looking at a Hedge Fund if I were you.
Building something new? Or just spruceing things up a bit?