Markets and prices for Corsican Pine Sawlogs

[pahoppy]

I have recently felled a compartment of Corsican Pine in West Worcestershire.

I estimate that there is about 50 tons of saw logs up to 60cm diameter. They are still in tree lengths, but aim to cut them into either 2.4m or 4.8m lengths once they have been forwarded to roadside which has excellent access for artics.

I also have about 20 tons which is only suitable for chip.

Does anyone know of any market for this material and what sort of price I can expect for it.

[Chris Sheppard]

Don't know where it would end up going locally to you, but chances are you'd get more for it splitting it into sub 40cm TD and oversize as you'd only get oversize price for it if you mixed it and that's often as much as £4/T difference at roadside (well is round us anyway).

 

If you struggle dealing direct, try someone like Euroforest - you'd get a bit less for it and they often take 90 days or more to pay but it get's it moving fairly quickly.

 

Round us typically it's high £30's for 3.7m sub 40cm TD logs at roadside, depending on where we are.