Are there buyers for red cedar?

[Calvados]

I have to remove a large Western Red Cedar from our garden (it has given up the ghost).

Are there companies that would buy the wood?  Its a large 20-25m tree with a wide girth.

We live in Kent

 

 

[rapalaman]

Unless there’s a decent lorry load to collect it wouldn’t be worth a firms time and costs to transport a single tree. Would also need to be roadside with easy access and machinery to load it in lengths.

If someone local with a use for it could collect you may get lucky. It’s also not the greatest firewood but you may be able to offload it via Facebook sales, gumtree etc to recoup some costs

[Steven P]

Probably need a photo to give people an impression of its worth.

 

Just working it backwords for value.... Suppose the end product is £1000 of useable planks (not sure here). Take off 1/3 to 1/2 for the retail profit, that £1000 is now say £600. Work backwards, store it for a year+ to dry takes up rental yard or shed space, spend a day in a saw mill, lets say that is 2/3 of the costs, so £200. Add in local haulage, £100... suddenly that single large tree isn't worth a lot. Many trees and the haulage will shrink per tree, the saw mill will be more efficient working at scale and a bit more money in it.

 

Cut to disks as unsplit firewood you will probably get more, split and sell more again, split and store till mostly dry - 1 year - and more again (noting the rules for selling seasoned or dry fire wood)

 

 

[Calvados]

thanks for your comments folks!

I might have to just let the surgeon chip it...just seems a shame

[Dan Maynard]

Cake is worth a lot, flour and eggs a lot less.

[Steven P]

subtle.....

[sime42]

You could probably sell it to Chainsaw Carvers. Minimal processing required, just whole trunks cut to length.

 

 

Saw this at the APF at the weekend.

[GarethM]

Jebus it's a bit early for Halloween.