Dear

We have a furniture factory in Romania.
But at this moment we are currently buying all of our oak with full truck loads of quartersawn oak A-quality. Dried to 6%-7% humidity.

But we are thinking of sawing our own logs in a few years. For this we would buy fresh cut oak logs in the Ukraine or Croatia.
They must be cut around february "because there is less sapwood then". and minimum diameter 50cm.

But does anyone know how much waste you have in general when cutting quartersawn oak. only a-quality
and when cutting rift sawn oak. only a-quality

And if someone has an idea of how long it takes to cut this aswell. m³-wise.

If we are going to do this, we would be buying around 500 m³ of logs every year. But we would need atleast 125m³ of A-quality wood out of this "rift sawn" and ofcourse around 100m³ of b-grade wood. "for making the backs & shelves" All the waste will be used for heating the factory.
Is this even possible?

And after sawing we would stack it up with stickers "the complete boards", and then let it dry for around 6 months in the air. Then we would saw it in smaller boards and let it dry again for around 4 months. again air drying. Ofcourse all of this will be covered from the rain ...
And then KD

Already thank you!!