Wood prices (not cut)wood big timber

[Henry218]

looking at selling some lumber 
haven't sold wood in about 10 years
don't know what the going rate is at the minute  oak/ ash/ cherry/ pine any help would be appreciated

[Muddy42]

You’ll have to give some more detail on what you are selling. Reading your description you use a range of words.

 

Are you selling standing live trees?

 

How much volume - would it fill a lorry - about 20 tonnes.

 

How straight is the wood - for the mill or firewood.

 

how good is the access from a road that the lorry can get to?

 

To give you an idea, i sold about 2 acres of mixed species, mixed quality with rubbish access and terrain recently. We barely got any profit after the extraction costs. We were forced to fell as the trees were getting dangerous and falling on a main road.

 

 

[Henry218]

All wood is felled and straight.  it is all millable ranging oak  to ash mostly few big straight bits of yew aswell.Also we have 4 metre lengths of cherry most of it is easily accessible from a gravel track 

[Muddy42]

On 30/04/2025 at 18:53, Henry218 said:

All wood is felled and straight.  it is all millable ranging oak  to ash mostly few big straight bits of yew aswell.Also we have 4 metre lengths of cherry most of it is easily accessible from a gravel track 

 

and how much volume?

when you say "accessible from a gravel track", does that mean the wood is next to the track, so the lorry can just park and pick it up with its grab or it further forwarding required?

[Muddy42]

and where are you in the UK?

[Henry218]

5 minutes from stockbridge

[Henry218]

4 hours ago, Muddy42 said:

 

and how much volume?

when you say "accessible from a gravel track", does that mean the wood is next to the track, so the lorry can just park and pick it up with its grab or it further forwarding required?

yeah all wood is accessible i can't say a volume because i don't know how much you are likely to want but if your really intrested i'm based 5 minutes from stockbridge 

[doobin]

A nature reserve I contract to got £65 per ton for crappy birch the other day.  Mix of sizes from 6” to 20”

Edited May 3 by doobin

[Peter 1955]

6 hours ago, doobin said:

A nature reserve I contract to got £65 per ton for crappy birch the other day.  Mix of sizes from 6” to 20”

Now I'm not at all up on these things, but I'd have said that you don't get a large volume of timber in one ton. Google suggests just over a cubic metre. A log seller near me is doing a cubic metre of certified dry logs for around £150. I can't make my mind up which is better value for the householder with a log burner. 🤔 

[Steven P]

Cubic meter of birch is about 3/4 ton, £150 /m3 is about £200 / ton

Half the cost as you go down a level of processing:

£200 dried and delivered - £100 split - £50 logs at roadside for Firewood quality.