Thinings value

[Andymacp]

I have a 10 acre Sitka plantation to selective thin, all 8-10 inch dia. Will be a good 500t

Is there a value or a market for this?

Firewood?biomass ?

Cheers

[timbernut]

I got £28 a tonne for Corsican that all went for biomass last summer if that's any help but I'm in norfolk

 

 

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[Logan]

£28 roadside is a good price for chip wood. If you're looking for a value standing, this all depends on the cost of harvesting and extracting. Standing price is not high if it's just the bent and twisted to come out, and only suitable for chip. Whereabouts roughly are you, and has it been racked before or is this a late 1st thin? All the best.

[Andymacp]

It's a late one private owner that doesn't want to clear fell ever. Not real twisted and I'm up north Scotland, I can get it roadside no real trouble with that.

[slack ma girdle]

£32 per ton of fencing road side.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

I have a 10 acre Sitka plantation to selective thin, all 8-10 inch dia. Will be a good 500t

Is there a value or a market for this?

Firewood?biomass ?

Cheers

 

Ever been thinned before?

Racks?

Motormanual or mechanical?

Rough or clean straight stems?

 

There's a market for it whatever the grade. Chip, bars, fencing etc.

 

I think 500t is over optimistic unless the crop is very drawn.

 

I just thinned 6.5 acres of DF only a little smaller dbh and that yielded only 60m3... No racks to cut tho, just the matrix.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

£32 per ton of fencing road side.

 

£35 for stakes here. £32 for posts.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Just looked up some old work records:

 

9.55 acres 1st thin 17 y/o SS 2m matrix inc racks: iro 200m3...

 

From memory iro 10m3 per rack plus only another 1m3 from the matrix.

 

Another:

 

4.5 acre JL CF average dbh 12", form height 60'. All cut to 3.1 chip:

 

Total, just over 500m3.

Edited March 28, 2017 by TimberCutterDartmoor

[Andymacp]

Ever been thinned before?

 

Racks?

 

Motormanual or mechanical?

 

Rough or clean straight stems?

 

 

 

There's a market for it whatever the grade. Chip, bars, fencing etc.

 

 

 

I think 500t is over optimistic unless the crop is very drawn.

 

 

 

I just thinned 6.5 acres of DF only a little smaller dbh and that yielded only 60m3... No racks to cut tho, just the matrix.

 

 

 

What's a rack ?

 

Never been thinned

 

Majority is clean and straight

[Andymacp]

I measured a fifth of the site

 

29 rows

50 trees /row

1450 trees

45% removed

8-10inch dia

0.3 t per tree