Standing Poplar available around Winchester anyone interested?

[Highland Forestry]

I have to say, I do not agree with some of the other comments on this thread.

 

Poplar, although no good for firewood.. is timber, and is fibre, and therefore can be valuable in the right location and quantity supplied to the right market.

 

I do not think 10 trees would be worth looking at as a standing sale, however, if they are reasonably large, and reasonably tall they may just scrape together a load.

 

If this is the case then the load will be worth somewhere in the region of £30 a ton delivered, which makes the total load worth around £600 - £750.

 

If somebody has the right contacts, and the right equipment, they could easily make a good days wage from felling and extracting this timber.

 

In this particular case, reading between the lines I would think the land owner is trying to recover their costs for removal which is fair enough, albeit unrealistic in this case.

[silky fox]

Traditionally the Dutch use Poplar to make Clogs...

[TLS Forestry]

Sell it for pallet production.

[gensetsteve]

Last time I see a post on here about pop at road side in cord it was worth £5 a tonne. If you get any jobs where you would like nice straight lengths of beech ash and oak removed I am just down the road. I have given financial advice to poor land owners in the past ( sell some land and run your new Range Rover into the ground rather than replace every year seems to help )

[John Shutler]

Speak to the forestry and Arb department at Sparsholt college, they may be interested in using the trees for training

[Mattsnaturalrivers]

Thanks for the responses so far especially the Sparsholt avenue thats a great idea, will put the word round a few assessors as well. Spoke to the other keepers again today and they reckon that on the site is about 100 of these poplars dotted around with most of them being 4-5 foot width at butt which they would be keen to remove.

[philg]

Last time I see a post on here about pop at road side in cord it was worth £5 a tonne. If you get any jobs where you would like nice straight lengths of beech ash and oak removed I am just down the road. I have given financial advice to poor land owners in the past ( sell some land and run your new Range Rover into the ground rather than replace every year seems to help )

:lol:I like that one:lol: