Cutting teak trees

So here we go, to make a long story short I decided to buy some teak wood to add to may teak house , essentially i will build a large sala and a carpark using teak to mach the house.. I have been buying some old teak wood aswell but i think that will go better for the built in furniture a bit down the line..So I started looking at wood going, all around C M really invstigating the story to see what the prices were like etc... Decided the best deal would be to buy some wood from basically somebodies private land who wanted to settle some gambling debts really fast. So i bought 40 growing trees as i only really need about 14 nice poles the rest i will cut up and use for the house, drying first ofcourse.... How about the documents to cut and transport 40 trees from one place to another about 40 km.. I was assured this was not a problem...... reading other post this was something that was definetly not recomended and was definetly going to be a problem.. Wich is really another good reason to do this..and really see how hard is it to cut 40 trees load them on trucks and move them 40 km and do it legally....https://teakdoor.com/images/smilies1/You_Rock_Emoticon.gif I have no idea how to post a picture on this thing please let me know and i will keep this going but pictures speak louder then words....

doomed

if you are moving them within the same province it may be possible to get te correct paperwork

the best way to obtain teak trunks near Chiang Mai is from the government woodyard, up north. I did post something previously about exactly where it is

they sell off confiscated wood (like yours if you don't get the proper paperwork) and have a big selection of sizes

you cannot cut or move the wood durring the hours of the night!
need permission from ampur office
dependent on age
OK after 15 years i think

Thanks for that Dr Andy I have read all your threads from the past including the one about the confiscated wood i went to that place and the prices were very high so i went this route instead.. I would really like to post some pictures as the whole thing is done now i got all the documents needed and the wood is now at my teak house i just want to let other members now of the step by step in doing this and that it is really not that hard to do if you have the right conection. how do i post pictures? or maybe i dont have enough post to do that...

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Originally Posted by ubuibi

How about the documents to cut and transport 40 trees from one place to another about 40 km.. I was assured this was not a problem...... reading other post this was something that was definetly not recomended and was definetly going to be a problem.. Wich is really another good reason to do this..and really see how hard is it to cut 40 trees load them on trucks and move them 40 km and do it legally

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Originally Posted by ubuibi

the wood is now at my teak house i just want to let other members now of the step by step in doing this and that it is really not that hard to do if you have the right conection.

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so your original post, of today, was nonsense as you had already moved them?

well done

there is a how-to-post-pics thread in the bottom section somewhere

not nonsence just the begining of the story i just wanted to go share the process with pictures

on the bottom in the posting rules it says i may not post an attachment

i will get my post up to 20 perhapes then i can post pictures

Anyway step one was getting the chanod from the landowner his house register and a poower of attourney to the land local amphur

about 2 months after that i got a call from the amphur that hey came to check the wood and all was fine

then one morning the my wifes cousin who has been helping us with this said okay time to prune the trees and get ready for cutting

why not put this in one post? Your count does not go up like this.

mission acomplished
picture time

have been trying just can not post the pictures dont know how

wdoes not allow me to post attachments sorry to all as i have a ton of pictures

fuk me, I told you already

go see this in newbies, "how to use stuff on the board"

https://teakdoor.com/how-to-use-stuff...a-picture.html

it tells you all, step by step

it is not obvious, but once you get used to it, no problem

http://https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/a...4/CIMG3404.JPGokay here we go it was easier getting the wood then doing this picture stuffhttp://https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/a...4/CIMG3404.JPGhttp://https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/a...4/CIMG3404.JPG

all the pictures in the gallery but thats as far as it letting me go if anyone is intrested to see they are the picture latest uploads album named cut... in the td picture gallery

You have to many http and bits in the url, also no use of image tags.


https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...4/CIMG3404.JPG

https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...b_CIMG3405.JPGhttps://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...b_CIMG3410.JPGhttps://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...b_CIMG3411.JPG

https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...b_CIMG3427.JPGhttps://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...b_CIMG3532.JPGhttps://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...b_CIMG3534.JPG

https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...b_CIMG3536.JPGhttps://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...b_CIMG3584.JPGhttps://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...b_CIMG3553.JPG

Ubuibi, if you click on you picture to enlarge it while you are still in your picture gallery, then do a properties to copy the URL, your picture will be larger when actually posted.

Like this

https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...4/CIMG3553.JPG

not like that, Thetyim, he hasn't built it yet

Yes he has, he wants to add an extension

Keep in mind that one can cut all the Teak trees that the locals will sale. However, if one does get caught...

Secondly, a fresh cut Teak tree is good for vertical supports. No problems there. However for other uses it still takes time for the wood to dry out.

this is my house I am building the car park and the sala with the new wood, i will cut the wood up in the next week or so and build a small little plywood house paint it black and line with plastic, as well as put a small exhoust fan to release the moisture to dry the wood.... i figure about 3 months or so....

Hillbilly in one of my pictures i showed the wood with stapms i have all the documents needed to transport and use the wood with no issues... As you see the truck was delivering the wood during the day it was not a midnight run this is why i posted this to tell all who are intrested that it can be done legally as other post only talk about the complication of the process with out anybody actually trying to do the process...

^That is because my teak is not ready to cut

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Originally Posted by ubuibi

as other post only talk about the complication of the process with out anybody actually trying to do the process...

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not true, some of have done it, no real problems except the caveats we mentioned in our posts

I also believe that it is easier and cheaper to buy the wood already cut and dried, unless you have your own sawmill - it costs quite a lot to cut. I have also done it that way

my own experience is that old, used wood is usually of better quality than any new wood you can find. It has also gone through any seasoning needed.

The house was built using only old wood the new wood i will use for the sala and the garage and will see what if anything will be left over. Really i need 16 post for these projects and i just could not find anything under 10k per post wich worked out to be the price for the 40 trees that i ended up buying. So i figured to have 26 trees sliced and diced with the cutting really being the only cost.. Anyway this was my reasining time will tell if it was the right thing to do. And really i am in no rush to finish it will be done with in the year i suspect. But i really appreciate your input DR Andy as i have read alote of your posts and you have really shared some great experiences in your ventures...

My experience was similar, I went last April to a teak farm close by, bought the trees, got the papers, then the wood. Then we squared the trunks and stacked them to dry. You can see this in the pictures I posted lately on my tread Japanese House. I think it's dry now, after 6 months. I'll have this cut to size to build doors and windows.
It was not cheap, but in the end, a lot cheaper than getting cought and getting two years in jail, turned into probation, and a fine, and court costs, and lawyer (no good, my wife had to fix the conditions with the judge by herself).
Another way of dealing with wood is to buy it short enough to be firewood, less than a metre long, I think. Then, it can be transformed and used. I was told that, I think it's accurate, but one is never 100% sure of those things, unless you get a copy of the law...

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Originally Posted by Old Monkey

It was not cheap, but in the end, a lot cheaper than getting cought and getting two years in jail, turned into probation, and a fine, and court costs, and lawyer (no good, my wife had to fix the conditions with the judge by herself).

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better start a new thread with pics!