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Just to add to what a few people have said on this thread, Ash is a very useful timber indeed. It has been the mainstay of my sawmill business for years now. More people ask for Oak, but when they see how beautiful ash is and realise that for indoor projects it is just as good and much cheaper they often choose ash in the end. From the point of view of the OP some time might need to be spent searching for small sawmills that are interested. I would suggest contacting Coed Cymru as they will know all the Welsh sawmills and will be delighted to advise which ones are likely to buy Ash logs and what specs they will need. They will give free independent advice so may be an excellent place to start.
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Kindling & sawdust briquette machine rentals
Squaredy replied to Stickies wood's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
Good briquettes are very good fuel, and in my experience sell well. Doing them properly may well need a six figure investment in machinery, but I know firms who produce them and cannot keep up with demand, By the way, how is your wood so dry when you process it? Most firewood producers process fresh cut logs and then dry them. Do you somehow do it the other way round?! I also have the problem of producing many tons of sawdust (from sawmilling) for which I have no real market. -
Kindling & sawdust briquette machine rentals
Squaredy replied to Stickies wood's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
And you will need a method of drying the sawdust before you can make briquettes. All the research I have done over the years makes it quite clear the feedstock for briquettes must be really dry. -
Well that is a matter of opinion. It will look slightly different of course, mainly my neighbours are brick and rough cast, but just round the corner are two houses with similar cladding to what I want to apply.
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Slightly ambiguous but as long as the cladding is of similar appearance permission is not needed. Well the appearance will not quite be the same - rough cast to be clad with timber. I could of course ask the local planning authority but I am sure they will err on the side of caution.
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Surely an Arbtalker has a view on this.....?
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I would really like to clad the South West of my house with timber, mainly to help keep the weather off. I am unsure whether I might need planning for this. I live in a village near Newport (South Wales) and it is not a conservation area or listed building. If it was totally rural I wouldn't think twice but as it is a street of brick houses it will look a bit different. A new build house round the corner has fake wooden cladding which is similar in appearance, so I wouldn't be the first. Does anyone know if this is something that could need planning or is it totally up to me?
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There are paper cups without the plastic lining but very rare at the moment.
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Ah, there he is!
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Yeah Andy is right you will usually need to buy a full lorry load, which is 26 tons or so. Also you will need access for full size timber lorries. Larch is scarce unless you are licensed for diseased stock. Douglas Fir might be more realistic and just as good for most purposes, in fact most sawmills say it is much better to cut. Have you spoken to @BigJ on here?
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Mine arrives at my door three times a week in glass bottles. Pint bottles of course, but all it says on them is 568ml. When I was at school we had daily deliveries of one third pint bottles. Shame I never liked drinking milk!
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No worries, I can always get it from the moaning Scots, just prefer to not transport so far if I get the chance. I was offered some local ones recently but not sure if this is still on.
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If you could make it up to a lorry load and if you are OK with sending it down to South Wales I'd have them.
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Thank you for your input. As I look into it more it is pretty obvious the startup load is a very big issue. You don't run the sawmill at full speed for hours like you might a re-saw or a planer, it will be fired up for each cut and then stopped as the sawhead is returned. So it may be fired up a couple of hundred times a day. So my challenge is getting either the supplier of the inverter to agree it will cope, or the supplier of the sawmill to agree it will be OK. I think it probably will, but I can't spend £10,000 on kit just hoping it will be OK!
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Most of your customers will ask you to cut them in half....
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Fair play that is an awesome planter. Just seems a shame to put soil in it...
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Can you post a few photos of some of the logs? In truth bendy oak sawlogs have very little value. You have to think that if you do not buy them who will? Big sawmills will want mainly straight and knot free. Firewood processors will need small diameter and straightish. A few pics will help to value them though.
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Grade will make a huge difference. Absolute best grade sawlogs for milling could be worth £300 per ton. Worst grade firewood you may have to pay to have removed. If it is firewood is it processor size and fairly straight?
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Milled a very knarly Cherry yesterday. Was half expecting metal, but none thankfully. Really love the character of these slabs, and I might even keep some myself, not sure what for, maybe just to save them from being ruined with resin!
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Lots of good clean Ash coming to market of course Andy, and I am paying about £70 per ton delivered. That is for good clean straight forest grown with minimal end splitting and at least a foot diameter.
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Here are some photos of Alder we have milled in the last couple of weeks. Nothing big, but a fair bit of spalting as the logs have been in my yard for two years or so.
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I can remember soon after I had my logburner installed many years ago shivering in front of a miserable 'fire' consisting mainly of freshly cut Ash, and wondering why it was so poor. "After all", I thought, "Ash is OK to burn green". I never tried burning green ash again. Best firewood is dry firewood.
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I would not bother with joiners. They are very well supplied with Idigbo, American Ash/Oak, and a myriad of other high quality kiln dried timbers in multiple thicknesses and long lengths and for lowish prices. A unique furniture maker on the other hand might appreciate what you can offer, or indeed a multitude of amateurs making items for their own or their friends use.
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I suspect the wood is not dry enough. You can make it burn in a woodburner but an open fire may not have the right airflow. If you have a moisture meter try splitting one of the larger lumps and taking a reading from the middle. The other thing worth trying is using smaller pieces until a fire is established.
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Ideas for wood on nature reserve
Squaredy replied to Francesca Ecopark's topic in Chainsaw Carving Forum
A bit more detail would help such as pics of timber stacks, location, and whether there is good access for timber lorries. My guess is the wood is rather randomly dotted around the site with no decent extraction routes, and it sounds like it is generally low grade. In which case you will be unlikely to get any return and indeed unless you want lots of random people doing goodness knows what around the site you will have to pay a specialist professional to get rid of it. If you have a load of active volunteers you might be able to get them to process some of it, but it will involve a lot of careful management to keep them safe and possibly hiring in some expensive kit. There are Arbtalk members who could probably help process into firewood or mill into boards, but it will be a hefty outlay with no guarantee you will ever recoup the costs.
