Value in Yew?

[Woodwanter]

Morning all,

 

about to fell a decent Yew, will be a reasonable amount of timber to come out. 

 

What value may it have, any contacts very welcome.

 

Based between Oxford and Reading.

[Tree monkey 1682]

Firewood !

[Peewit]

Valued highly by wood turners and by furniture makers if it's straight and clean. Whether they'll want to pay much for it is another matter. The trouble is hobby crafters like to get their wood for nothing. Even so it would be worth keep the lengths of the main trunk as long as possible and getting some photos out there to wood crafters.

 

The smaller branches will make great firewood if you want high heat very quickly. 

[Mick Dempsey]

Hobby millers and small scale sawmills that like to sell unusual types of stuff will want it.

As said, putting it together where they pay and collect might be your issue.

[openspaceman]

43 minutes ago, Peewit said:

Valued highly by wood turners and by furniture makers if it's straight and clean.

If it's straight and clean and of good colour, cylindrical with no deep flutes, it would go for slicing. Worth £15/Hft in the early 90s, for export.

[Squaredy]

6 hours ago, Woodwanter said:

Morning all,

 

about to fell a decent Yew, will be a reasonable amount of timber to come out. 

 

What value may it have, any contacts very welcome.

 

Based between Oxford and Reading.

I buy Yew quite often.  Usually it costs me about £70 per ton, but it is really only viable if it can be made up to a full timber lorry load with other species.

 

It sells reasonably but most pieces have so many faults it is a very specialist market.

 

The timber is very beautiful but usually impossible to get clean pieces from.

[Brushcutter]

It looks lovely missed. Tough as nails as you quote often have little pockets of rot or included dirt to blunt the saw.

 

Never sold any just milled for me. However I have shifted a few long round branches to medieval enthusiasts for making long bows.

 

One of which I let me have a go with one he made. Some 5 foot thing with a massive draw wight. The less said about his hand forged bodkin points for his arrows the better.