Our Services
Milling, custom-sawing, and kiln-drying, our staff possesses a wealth of experience. The professionals here at Bee Tree pride themselves on delivering comprehensive solutions to all your hardwood needs.Custom Sawing
Air-drying
Kiln-drying
Milling
FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE, please note: we prefer to schedule appointments between 9:oo AM and 3:30 PM Monday through Friday. Thank you!
We offer Custom Drying, Sales & Special Orders. Ask about our green options!
Services
We require a 50% deposit at time of order for any custom sawing, storing, drying, or milling.
Custom Sawing
$125.00 per hour. We would appreciate a detailed cut list in advance or at time of delivery. We do charge for blades when they are damaged while sawing, AND, when sawing hickory and locust logs.
Air-drying
We are happy to store your lumber for air-drying that we will be kiln drying for you. We will sticker, stack, and end coat your wood as part of the kiln-drying process. $.035/board foot, one-time charge for end coating your lumber Monthly storage fee: $10 minimum
$25 for 250 to 1000 board feet
$50 for up to 2000 board feet
$75 for up to 3000 board feet
$100 for up to 4000 board feet
One month free storage. (We will estimate air-drying time but you will be charged only on actual time it takes to dry. We’ll be happy to explain the process to you.) We will not charge any storage fees until your logs are cut.
Kiln-drying
We will kiln-dry your lumber. We sticker and stack your wood and end coat, if appropriate. Softwoods can be dried green. All other species must be a minimum of 20% moisture content (MC). We will measure moisture content of lumber brought to us to determine actual internal MC.
Estimate of most hardwood air-drying times to 20% MC is 5-12 months per inch thick, depending on time of the year and species. This is after logs are cut into lumber and stickered correctly. Example, 4/4 red oak cut on May 15th would be ready, theoretically, for the kiln on Nov. 1st. 4/4 red oak cut on Oct. 1 would be ready, theoretically, for the kiln on Apr. 15th.
$.33/ board ft for lumber that we saw, square-edge
$.42/board ft for lumber that we saw, live-edge
$.38/board ft for pre-cut lumber, square-edge
$.47/board ft for pre-cut lumber, live-edge
*Minimum charge – $100; 10% volume discount on orders of 1,000 board ft. or more for drying only
NOTE: Boards 8/4 and thicker and/or wider than 10″ (slabs) will be subject to additional stacking charges.
Milling
