Elm butts

[Dan Maynard]

I have a friend who has two large dead elms on the farm, they look like they may have been pollarded 40ish years ago as the stems are maybe 8-10 feet to the split and 3-4 feet diameter. There is then a reasonable chunk of 1-2 foot timber.

 

Would these go to a sawmill? Any recommendations for the best way to market them? Too big for my chainsaw mill that's for sure.

 

We're in the southwest corner of Cambridgeshire so near Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire.

[Big J]

Send them into Helmdon Sawmills at Brackley. Steve will look after you there and it's very inexpensive. I've sent elm from Cambridgeshire to Helmdon in the past

[billy_wizz]

19 hours ago, Big J said:

Send them into Helmdon Sawmills at Brackley. Steve will look after you there and it's very inexpensive. I've sent elm from Cambridgeshire to Helmdon in the past

Just make sure there's no metalwork in it!

Edited February 19, 2022 by billy_wizz
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[Boo Who?]

Just make sure there's no metalwork in it!

...and they aren’t hollow!

[Dan Maynard]

On 18/02/2022 at 23:03, Big J said:

Send them into Helmdon Sawmills at Brackley. Steve will look after you there and it's very inexpensive. I've sent elm from Cambridgeshire to Helmdon in the past

Brilliant, thank you, will get in touch with him.

[Dan Maynard]

19 hours ago, Boo Who? said:

 

 

...and they aren’t hollow!

 

 

Could happen. Maybe need to knock them over into the field first and have a look at the bottom.

 

They are field edge so I guess metal has to be possible.

[Boo Who?]

I’d say it most probably will - when I was working down the road from you, nearly all the bigger elms I removed were hollow or hollowing in the stem, especially if they have been topped out/pollards as you suggest. How long have they been dead?

[Dan Maynard]

6 hours ago, Boo Who? said:

I’d say it most probably will - when I was working down the road from you, nearly all the bigger elms I removed were hollow or hollowing in the stem, especially if they have been topped out/pollards as you suggest. How long have they been dead?

I don't know exactly but at least a few years. Bark starting to lift higher up, smaller twigs have been stripped out of the crown and outer branches going brittle. I'm pretty sure one moved in the wind Friday so I knocked it all back yesterday to stop it blowing over.

[WADKIN]

I’d be interested in them when you have them down, if you plan on selling to steve you will be fine but if you want him to saw I’ve had stuff there well over a year still waiting, he is extremely busy with all his regular big clients, Vasterns, Sutton Tyler’s to name a few and trying to get anything cut almost impossible