Highland Forestry

Have you thought about cutting it at 2.75mand selling to a mill for sleeper cuts? You'd be looking somewhere in the region of £25-£30 a ton at roadside I would expect.

Doing some rough calculations, that big stack of timber pictured is approximately 330,000 tonnes of timber!!!

Plant a big strip of maize and bang 1000 pheasants into it !!

Not too bad... she's had alot of money spent on her now.. Hydraulics, brake actuator, exhaust, alternator, belts, full service, pilote starter system, new battery and a load of other stuff but thankfully I think we're all done with maintenance now and getting some good work from her!

OK... here's some of our birch

Here's some snaps of my wee beastie..

No... It means the land owner has paid for an audit to determine that he has adequate management systems or is carrying out his business in a sustainable way in line with FSC criteria. It also means timber produced from his land is worth more, and timber can be sold to markets requiring FSC certification.

Dont panic.... no arb waste here boyo! 3m lengths of 9' birch all the way

I'm looking to start doing nets as there's more £££'s to be made for a value added product

Make one then!

fuelwood.co.uk do a bagging machine RRP £225 i think

Check you're BOG ROLL packaging! There are loads of products made from FSC Certified timber.... most sawn timber is FSC these days, as well as packaging, toilet roll, newspapers, office paper, fuelwood etc

FSC (FSC UK - Forest Stewardship Council) is the Forestry Stewardship Council When timber is sold as FSC Certified it means it has been harvested from sustainable, well managed forests and woodlands. It means all the people involved with the woodland or forest are suitably qualified, all the timber is harvested under an environmental policy to avoid pollution and contamination to water courses, everything from the land owner to the management and the contractor is audited. It also ensures a chain of custody right through from planting to harvesting, sale and transport. We still deal with non-FSC from time to time but the emphasis is becoming more and more towards sustainable resources which are certified.

How is a website based sales leads company in New York able to offer anything positive to Invoice Factoring in the United Kingdom? Plug your website elsewhere please!!

Mostly Birch here!! spot on... Oh and nappies, pampers to be precise.... they've got plenty of calorific value in them!

Ahh I had forgotten about those little blighters.... damned near £5 a shot too!!

Too right! There's alot of effort goes in behind the scenes before it even gets to roadside.... I didn't even mention contract management, cash flow, training, site meetings and inspections, marketing.... the list of costs is endless.

Robbo - there needs to be some kind of industry reform IMO.. Everyone in my area is roughly the same bar the odd few that are happy to work for nothing or charge way over the odds. The biggest problem I feel is guys selling cheap firewood that's not sustainable. For example all of my firewood sold either loose to customers or to large merchants is FSC...

Sorry, I should have explained better... The cost of harvesting broadleafs (hardwoods) is expensive as very often it is not grown in parcels large enough to warrant mechanised harvesting or it has not grown straight enough for mechanised harvesting. This means most cord is cut by hand, which means chainsaw operatives. This in turn means escalating costs year on year due to simple things like insurance, fuel, cost of living, vehicle, replacement parts for saws etc etc. The same can be said for mechanised harvesting - fuel, insurance, maintenance, parts etc. Ontop of this you have the fact that estates and land owners need to see a decent return on thier crop and so standing sale prices are up. Couple that with the fact that the timber industry in general is at an all time high right now and then think about the demand for what is essentially a commodity and you have you're roadside price. None of this makes much of a difference - the market is what the market is. If a big player starts paying £75 a ton at roadside tomorrow then everybody else has to match that to secure supply. So in answer to your question.. It's Both!

Have you guys tried using sawdust, wood chippings etc?? I'm not so sure on the paper idea, but woodchip and sawdust might burn a bit better.

I would suggest that you should be paying somewhere in the region of £40 to £45 per ton at roadside for cord just now, especially for Oak, Ash, Beech etc. VAT and Delivery on top of that too.

I know.... I bought it.

The one on Ebay sold for alot more than 2k!!!!!

Not necessarily.... you could sell a ton of seasoned wood or a ton of unseasoned wood, two different prices and two different options for your customers

Another can of worms!!