Green oak supplier dordogne

[Rodie]

Hi can anyone help me to locate a green oak supplier

Nr Rouffignac , we need 18no 150x150 or 200mm x 4.5m long , we are in uk at moment but over at Easter

Thanks rod

[Alex H]

Try http://www.pagesjaunes.fr/?portail=PJ

Search for "Scierie de bois"

Unless you can find someone near you who has had this requirement, I think this is the only way.

[Hoddy]

According to the pages jaune there is a forestiere in Rouffignac called Jean Duri. It doesn't say that he supplies firewood but it might be worth asking. If he doesn't sell it himself he may know someone who does.

Hoddy

[Alex H]

[quote user="Hoddy"]According to the pages jaune there is a forestiere in Rouffignac called Jean Duri. It doesn't say that he supplies firewood but it might be worth asking. If he doesn't sell it himself he may know someone who does.

Hoddy[/quote]

18no 150x150 or 200mm x 4.5m long

those are big bits of firewood [IMG]http://i648.photobucket.com/albums/uu210/alexh01/smile-1-1.jpg[/IMG]

[Hoddy]

Oops ! That makes the forestiere I suggested an even better bet though.

Hoddy

[Rodie]

There going to be my new 1st floor in our

Barn conv , I will look at the place NRC me

, just though with all the renovations

Going on it would be easy

The old beams coming out will

Do a big fire as they are a bit wormy!

[Bill]

There is Green and Green,

 

some think green is just a year or so old, but for building, I think anything less than 4-5 years is being a bit fast and loose, given the choice (again ) I  would aim at 7-10 year old seasoned oak.. Harder to work and to cut, but it's possible. We have some 500 year old oak and a man with a regular saw ( or four)   cut three  joints into it to splice in three  beams,  It took nearly a week , but was right to less than a  fag paper.  

We  have also just completed the repair to the front of our timber frame house , the architects spec was green,  and there is some shrinkage on some pieces  , even at 4 years , or the wood supplier lied !!!! 

or perhaps you can  buy reclaimed ???

 

I should add..

18no 150x150 or 200mm x 4.5m long,  I have just noticed the size/length ,

the aforementioned splicing was about  your size for our  joists,  The builder insisted we had a structural engineer in to check if the ceiling would hold up. (about 12/14 inches apart ) .

 

The engineer said, by todays standards, it wouldn't be acceptable, but in view of the fact the place hadn't fallen down in 5 centuries, he thought it would be OK to go ahead..  :) Still cost me for his time !

good luck

Bill

 

more thoughts..

u said..

The old beams coming out will
Do a big fire as they are a bit wormy!      that doesnt matter depends on degrees of worm.. and rot.. Dont throw it away if its just surface worm, the innner wood , if oak  SAND  very old,  will be tougher than anything you can buy today.

 

apologies if I am teaching my grandma to such eggs..

[Jonzjob]

You beat me to it Bill. As you say there is wormy and wormy. Most of the time the worm is only very shallow and the wood under it is far better than new stuff.

I would try digging some 'wormy stuff' out to see how deep it is?

[Hoddy]

There is the green and green that Bill identified.

In the Dordogne there is another green. I had problems with this myself because I said I didn't want 'green oak' for firewood. It was explained to me that 'chene vert' is a particular tree. The leaves are so dark that on a hillside they look black which is where the term Perigord Noir comes from.

I assumed that this is what you wanted. This is just a warning to be sure that you are asking for the right thing.

Good luck !

Hoddy

[Jonzjob]

Chêne vert is normally a tree that's grown for coppacing for fire wood and wouldn't normally be able to provide 4.5 metre lengths. The Montagne Noir,  just to the North of us and very much where Pads has her pad, also gets its name from the chêne vert colouring.

I don't think a mastike is too likely, but worth looking out for..