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  1. Squaredy
    Yes I totally agree. Yew logs are worth usually about £60 or £70 per cubic metre, and that is delivered to the sawmill. So the real commercial value of the log is roughly zero. A hobbyist might like to come along and buy it or wood turners might come and hack off bits but this takes lots of time, advertising etc. So, yeah £50 is a fair price for the tree owner. If they think this is a rip-off they have always got the option of paying someone to mill it for them, to dry the timber for a couple of years, advertise it, deal with all the enquiries, and eventually I am sure they would sell it all and hopefully make more than £50 profit.
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    Yes but Jonathon, you are using logic and common sense. They really don't come into it in the real world it seems. Wales is also ideally placed for large scale hydro power. Electricity from rain and hills....sounds perfect to me.
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    You are very certain you cannot increase your log prices enough to make it worthwhile. Maybe you are mistaken. Lots of things in life have become much more expensive in the last few years - yet people still cough up. By your own admission you keep getting busier so maybe you could increase your prices usefully. Maybe you will be surprised by the response. If you lose a few customers, or even say 20%, overall it will mean you work less hours but more profitably. Might be worth a go rather than just write off your own business.
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    Yea they are tasty apples....Discovery. The bugs thought they were good too of course. Will have to plant a new apple tree, but a bit further from the house this time.
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    A section of stump ground lead pipe will be just the excuse you need to get rid of it altogether and replace with modern safe alternative. Surprised that wasn't job no.1 Ha, yes I did think about that, but to be honest the lead pipe doesn't worry me. We have hard water, and always run off some water in the morning or if the house has been unoccupied for a few days.
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    Well to be fair the subsidence is mainly caused by the extreme dry weather and shrinking clay soil. But the point is I guess that even a small tree near the house is making the drying worse. As the house has indeed started to subside right next to the tree I think there was really no choice but to give it the chop....sadly. The distance from house to apple tree was around 1.5 metres. And yes I agree photos would be good. So here they are.....to be fair not that exciting, but showing the apple tree and privet hedge before and after removal.
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    The owner of the Yew trees has been chasing me asking who was interested in doing this job. So if the two members who expressed an interest are still interested please let me have their contact details so I can pass them on, or give the customer a shout on the number I supplied! Thank you in advance.
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    Thank you for your reply. Yes the job is done now. After all that they turned up without the promised stump grinder, so it was not an issue! So I guess I will remove the remaining stump using old fashioned methods, or maybe just leave it to rot.
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    They haven't looked at the job. A building engineer assessed the damage to the house, and at the same time condemned the apple tree and part of the hedge. Then today out of the blue we have a phone call from a tree surgery firm saying they have been instructed to do the tree work and can they come the next day. So we weren't really prepared for this and the only professional who has been to see the job was an engineer appointed by the insurance company. I spent half my evening taking all the lovely apples off the tree in readiness!
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    I am always interested in buying quality dried boards such as you have. Where are you though?
  11. Squaredy
    Well the water pipe is lead, not sure about the gas pipe...
  12. Squaredy
    Thank you for your replies. It is not that I would have kept it a secret, but I will not be around when they arrive, and my wife may also be out. The removing of the tree and hedge is a tiny job so they might be on the stump grinding before we even meet them. What we will do is leave a notice for them warning them about the pipes and cable. On reflection I am surprised the structural engineer didn't enquire about this when he specced out the job.
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    I have a couple of tree surgeons coming to my house tomorrow to remove my lovely Apple Tree and a few metres of Privet Hedge as they have helped to cause subsidence to my house and I have had to make an insurance claim. Should I warn them that there are water and gas pipes and electricity cables buried somewhere underneath the tree and hedge or will they automatically check before they fire up the stump grinder? Bear in mind I have no way of knowing how far down the pipes and cables are, and hopefully they are too deep, but who knows....?
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    Anybody got a stock of nice clean straight 3 inch Sweet Chestnut they want to shift? I am in South Wales but I will travel a bit if needed. I will pay £25 to £30 per cubic foot if it is decent, and been drying properly spaced for at least two years. Need about 12 or more cubic feet. Lengths can be anything over 2 metres. If it is cheap I may just buy all you have for re-selling, but right now I am just trying to help one customer. If you think you can help send me a PM. Thank you. Any takers?
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    The poor citizens of the USA think they are protecting themselves by owning a gun. In reality in most years over 10,000 people are illegally killed with firearms in the USA and double that number commit suicide by using a gun each year. Even the number killed by accidental discharge is higher than the total firearms deaths in the UK. There are not many things that make me proud to be British, but general lack of guns in our society is one of them.
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    I have been contacted by someone asking about felling 6 Yew trees, which sound as if they may have some decent milling timber in them. It is totally out of my area so I promised the guy I would post on here to see if anyone is interested in felling them and possibly buying the stems. I think he realises he will have to pay to have them felled, and I have advised him the timber will not be high value, so if you would like to contact him PM me and I will pass on his contact details. It might be a waste of time......or it might be 6 nice Yews worth saving and milling. Who knows? Here is what he said to me: I have 6, 25 feet by 1 - 1.5 feet wide yew trees that I would like taking out and removing. I live in North Lincolnshire, so it's some way from you but would you be interested in having/buying them? Or do you have any information that could help me?
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    You don't need to worry too much about fungi as these will die once the wood is properly dry. Most of the insects also will disappear, but it is possible some wood boring insects could remain, and maybe introduce them to the customer's home. The best solution is to get it all kilned, but I am guessing this is not feasible. So although there is surely plenty of good firewood in the logs you are referring to you are right it is possible this could introduce the odd pest or two into a house. If the customer understands this and can keep an eye on any logs indoors it is probably nothing to worry about, but if the customer is a little naive and would be terrified of the the thought of introducing a woodworm or two into their home it might be best to not get involved. I hope this helps
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    I would say difficult to distinguish the timber from C of L. Both lovely timber though very knotty usually.
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    I agree with se7enthdevil's figure of about £30 per cubic foot. However I would say that is a price for selecting a few boards and only for decent quality ones at that. I would say that if the buyer is interested in the whole lot the price should come down quite a lot. It is worth remembering that selling timber is a very time consuming business and to shift that lot to a variety of customers is likely to take months or years, hence it is only fair to drop the price accordingly. Also I think everyone is assuming this is Cedar of Lebanon (or one of the other similar cedars like Atlantic Cedar). If it is Western Red Cedar I would say the value is much lower. I hope this helps.
  20. Squaredy
    Ooooohhhh I am going to be really unhelpful and say not Yew, but I have no idea what. Sapwood too wide for Yew and bark wrong.
  21. Squaredy
    In my experience a tree like that you can never tell until it is down how many stems it really is. There will almost certainly be major bark inclusions and the like. Difficult to value until it is down and in sections I would suggest. I am sure there will be some good timber there, but maybe nothing as wide as one would hope.
  22. Squaredy
    Yes the bits above ground should last decades, depending on design. Posts sunk in the ground will be rotten in 6 to 10 years. Unless you can work out a clever way to protect them of course. If you can bed them in large chippings (like railway ballast) and keep mud and sawdust away then they will not stay wet at ground level and may last better. If they are embedded in concrete then at and just below ground level they will get wet and stay wet and therefore rot.
  23. Squaredy
    My little logging girls helped us out on our site today as we felled a large Spruce.
  24. Squaredy
    Wow that is a lot of error. The Hemlock must have been gutting... Maybe one day you will contract to buy a lorry load of Spruce, and when it turns up it is all Walnut....
  25. Squaredy
    Isn't it spooky, the original poster mistook a CRW for a WRC and then I mistook a WRC for a CRW.

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