Value Of Wellingtonia

[charlie6]

Hi, 

Looking to try and find the value of timber.

Large Wellingtonia. 

1.8m diameter @ base cut. 20m of timber. Tree was 27m. 

Good access road side, location Dumfries. 

[Squaredy]

2 hours ago, charlie6 said:

Hi, 

Looking to try and find the value of timber.

Large Wellingtonia. 

1.8m diameter @ base cut. 20m of timber. Tree was 27m. 

Good access road side, location Dumfries. 

It is all about finding a customer. If you find someoine who has a need for it probably worth around £60 per cubic metre.  At a rough estimate from what you said it is 5.5 cubic metres so value £330.  A lot of people would expect it delivered for that price though.

 

If you can't find a buyer you will have to pay to have it removed.  The real value is in milling it, drying it and then converting it into beautiful furniture, but if that is not your business it is not your business.

[trigger_andy]

15 minutes ago, Squaredy said:

It is all about finding a customer. If you find someoine who has a need for it probably worth around £60 per cubic metre.  At a rough estimate from what you said it is 5.5 cubic metres so value £330.  A lot of people would expect it delivered for that price though.

 

If you can't find a buyer you will have to pay to have it removed.  The real value is in milling it, drying it and then converting it into beautiful furniture, but if that is not your business it is not your business.

Id be interested if this was the case. 

[Guest]

What's the diameter at the top end? I'm not in the market and nowhere near your area but just curious to know how you calculate rough volume and what the minimum use-able diameter is regarded as being?

[Big J]

I don't think that I ever paid for sequoia. I just payed to have it collected, to clear the site for the tree surgeon. It makes good cladding, but it's a lot of work to get it to the final product.

 

The tree in the photos seems like a low quality stem, with a lot of occluded bark.

 

 

[Squaredy]

3 hours ago, Calamity Wayne said:

What's the diameter at the top end? I'm not in the market and nowhere near your area but just curious to know how you calculate rough volume and what the minimum use-able diameter is regarded as being?

Not exact science, just experience suggests Sequoia of this size at base is likely to be two feet half way up and OP says it is 20m of trunk.  Sequoias tend to not vary a lot in the UK, but it is only an estimate to give an idea of value.

[monkeybusiness]

Carvers love it, but haulage will play a massive part in the value. 
You want it gone in big lumps though or you’ll be raking sawdust for weeks!!! 

[charlie6]

Thanks for the advice. It seemed a waste of a lot of potentially good looking timber to leave  on site. I was surprised how light the timber was, It was dead though.