Value of Timber

[Shropshirebuller]

We are in a mid tier and have a number of trees to cut out of some brooks and then to re fence.

What is the best way to sell the timber?

Would it be best all processed through a large chipper for biomass or split the brash from the cord and sold whole?

What is it worth per cubic metre for either?

 

[former farmer]

I am trying to dishearten you but, sadly timber seems to be worth pence when you sell it

but cost £'s when you have to buy some.

 

[egbert]

We are in a mid tier and have a number of trees to cut out of some brooks and then to re fence.

What is the best way to sell the timber?

Would it be best all processed through a large chipper for biomass or split the brash from the cord and sold whole?

What is it worth per cubic metre for either?

give us a steer...species? size? volume?

Is this skanky firewood, or veneer walnut?

 

[Shropshirebuller]

give us a steer...species? size? volume?

Is this skanky firewood, or veneer walnut?

Mixed broad leaved species, willow, ash, hazel. Guessing between 50-80 cube.

 

[Dry Rot]

The cost of extraction can be a major factor. Try here: https://arbtalk.co.uk/forums/ . The tree and timber version of TFF. Friendly and helpful.

It might suit you to do what i did. Hire an experience man to fell and sned, then extracted the timber myself and cut up for own firewood when it suited me.

 

[Shropshirebuller]

The cost of extraction can be a major factor. Try here: https://arbtalk.co.uk/forums/ . The tree and timber version of TFF. Friendly and helpful.

It might suit you to do what i did. Hire an experience man to fell and sned, then extracted the timber myself and cut up for own firewood when it suited me.

Yes I have got someone coming in with a tree shear to drop the timber into the field. Then will do the rest ourselves with our 360 and grapple. But it’s just knowing what to do with it once it’s down. Cord it and burn brash or chip the lot...

 

[steveR]

Yes I have got someone coming in with a tree shear to drop the timber into the field. Then will do the rest ourselves with our 360 and grapple. But it’s just knowing what to do with it once it’s down. Cord it and burn brash or chip the lot...

Dan the Man?

 

[steveR]

We are in a mid tier and have a number of trees to cut out of some brooks and then to re fence.

What is the best way to sell the timber?

Would it be best all processed through a large chipper for biomass or split the brash from the cord and sold whole?

What is it worth per cubic metre for either?

Chipped biomass has to be from a legit source for RHI grant boilers... :-(

Firewood is a PITA, but has a value once logged and split and seasoned... We have had a lot dropped with a tree shear over past 2 years (too wet this winter) and gave all good stuff away to anyone who came and got it, burn the rest and put teh ash on the muck heap.

 

[renewablejohn]

Mixed broad leaved species, willow, ash, hazel. Guessing between 50-80 cube.

So best case scenario your looking at log sales of 8k in a high value area or 4k in a low value area. As said with chip being RHI non compliant you will be lucky to find anyone to take it away as chip. By the time you have paid your shear man there wont be much left for log processing. Best bet would probably be to find some mug to buy it as standing timber but with so much dead ash about nobody is now that stupid.

 

[egbert]

If any of the ash is straight, knot free, and upwards from 10" diameter, it might have a value - loads not less than 15-20T
But then, it would also help sell the willow as firewood, and you don't want to be left with that.

The higher end firewood prices - which as said vary by region- will be 'processor friendly', IE circa up to 10", fairly regular - so the lad feeding the log processor hasn't got to think about much.
Sold neatly stacked, in one or two commercial scale parcels, big wagon accessible.

There might be someone wanting to store, and then process on site. They'll be there ages, and leave piles of sawdust and bark.
But might pay more.

Locally, trade for stacked hardwood firewood roadside is £40-50 I believe - it has eased the last few months I'd say.

(I'm buying higher value stuff, but try to keep abreast of it)

12-18 months ago, there were some blistering prices, as someone had signed a contract to supply a BIG chip user, and discovered their planned infeed wasn't coming forward. They had to outsource from the opposition, which tipped the market into all kinds of turmoil.

 

[TripleSix]

Stack it over summer then cut it and split it when you're quiet in the autumn.
You only need a half decent chainsaw and a £500 splitter to do a lot of logs in a day.

 

[Hamer5108]

I would be interested in the timber where are you based what's the access like and hard road to the timber or wait for the long awaited dry weather to get across field .

 

[BobTheSmallholder]

Yes I have got someone coming in with a tree shear to drop the timber into the field. Then will do the rest ourselves with our 360 and grapple. But it’s just knowing what to do with it once it’s down. Cord it and burn brash or chip the lot...

Do you have animals? Woodchip makes very good animal bedding and composts down better (IMHO) than straw, especially if you put pigs through it (google Joel Salatin Pigerator).

 

[Dyffryn]

Give A W Jenkinsons a ring. They came and chiped a lot of brash here last year. Wish we hadn't bothered harvesting the timber. Should of gone in the chipper as a hole tree.

 

[renewablejohn]

Give A W Jenkinsons a ring. They came and chiped a lot of brash here last year. Wish we hadn't bothered harvesting the timber. Should of gone in the chipper as a hole tree.

Never be a millionaire at the rates they pay.

 

[Dry Rot]

Stack it over summer then cut it and split it when you're quiet in the autumn.
You only need a half decent chainsaw and a £500 splitter to do a lot of logs in a day.

I got a PTO driven tipping saw bench. With two people, you can cross cut logs as fast as one man can move the bench back and forth. Far quicker than a chain saw. Have the logs drop into a tractor bucket. The guy in this video needs his ass kicked. I can do it faster than that single handed and I am 80. A crying shame to give timber away or burn it as trash. Advertise on Arbtalk and they will be queuing up.

 

[Hesston4860s]

I got a PTO driven tipping saw bench. With two people, you can cross cut logs as fast as one man can move the bench back and forth. Far quicker than a chain saw. Have the logs drop into a tractor bucket. The guy in this video needs his ass kicked. I can do it faster than that single handed and I am 80. A crying shame to give timber away or burn it as trash. Advertise on Arbtalk and they will be queuing up.

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Ive burned tons n tons taken out my wood, nobody wants to buy it and nobody will pay for firewood they want it basically free.
theres another heap there now waiting to be torched once the straw sheds empty.

 

[Princess Pooper]

http://www.woodnet.org.uk/woodlots/round-timber-for-sale

Standing and felled timber for sale/wanted exchange.
Although it says 'timber in south east England' that seems fairly flexible as a quick glance shows some in Wales and Herefordshire.

 

[Robt]

I’ll give you £200 and I’ll collect and cut up.....

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

This is one of the problems of growing even more trees. Down here in the South East there is a small demand for logs but the cost of doing the job means the timber has to be for free or around £30 a ton for good stuff.
In the Weald of Kent and Sussex there is apparently 17 million tons of wood that needs cutting, much of this is Chestnut coppice. There is a small value to this of around £400 an acre, but it needs cutting every 20 years or so. Due to the large amount of Ash being cleared because of Dieback I doubt there will be any great increase in low quality timber value for some time.

The wood chip power station in East Kent is taking some of the wood, but apparently by the time it has been extracted to roadside and hauled they can burn imported timber cheaper.
However I must get out and start planting my share of 30,000 ha we need to save the planet!!