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Where to buy standing timber

  • 15-09-2011 12:49pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 120 ✭✭


    Hi all.

    Am looking for some standing timber, can be a mix of hard and soft wood, in the Kilkenny/ SE area. I live on a lane with 5 brothers and sisters who all use solid fuel stoves and open fires. Im willing to travel a small bit and to cut down the timber to take it away.
    I've seen a few posts that suggest contacting private forestry owners who might be thinning their trees. Would this be an option and where could I get contact details for someone like this. I've seen plenty of posts about Coilte and overcharging for poor quality timber, if someone has a recent good experience of buying from Coilte I'd be very interested.

    Thanks in advance


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 376 ✭✭LK_Dave


    http://www.timbersales.ie

    never used them as i have my own standing timber


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    No offence, but only a fool would sell you standing timber and allow you to fell it and saw it on their property if you did not have the proper insurance to do so. It would leave the land owner open to huge claims if there was an accident.

    If you don't posess this insurance, a better option for you might be to look at felled timber from Coillte or from a private supplier. You can buy it in lengths and then saw it up and split it into sizes suitable for your stoves.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 262 ✭✭greenfingers89


    reilig wrote: »
    No offence, but only a fool would sell you standing timber and allow you to fell it and saw it on their property if you did not have the proper insurance to do so. It would leave the land owner open to huge claims if there was an accident.

    totally agree, you would need at the very minimum a chainsaw licence and public liability cover but it would still be dodgy if you didnt have cover for yourself, buy lengths yourself and block them on your own property, i have a contact that sells mostly ash in 10ft lengths...PM me if you want contact details


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 193 ✭✭btb


    @ greenfingers89 what is the going rate now for ash on roadside ? was quoted 35e/m for spruce pulpwood by a local timbe harvesting contractor on roadside (bit ott as last spruce i bought cost 17e/m delivered 2 years age), planning for winter '13 and might buy some hardwood over the winter


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 262 ✭✭greenfingers89


    iv heard figures around €70 per cube for dry 10ft ash lengths but i wudnt be very up to date on prices to be honest


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 193 ✭✭btb


    thanks, bit out of my league at that rate, would nearly be viable to burn oil. have free supply of mixed hardwood to cut down and take away (from overgrown hedgerows), probably last another 3 years but always on lookout for lazy way out


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 262 ✭✭greenfingers89


    btb you need to remember that one cubic metre of 10ft ash lengths is equal to almost 2 cube of blocks, the real way to compare any firewood is by the solid cubic metre or by loose/blocked cubic metre but not to mix either up with eachother


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 193 ✭✭btb


    use my timber cut to 500mm so 10ft lengths give me 6 logs for boiler, any odd bits supply to a mate for his inlaws, work on the basis of needing about 30m of 10ft's for winter (have to heat house during day), using all hardwood this winter so hopefully might get away with 20m,


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 120 ✭✭imola94


    totally agree, you would need at the very minimum a chainsaw licence and public liability cover but it would still be dodgy if you didnt have cover for yourself, buy lengths yourself and block them on your own property, i have a contact that sells mostly ash in 10ft lengths...PM me if you want contact details

    That sounds like the best option alright.
    I'll send you a pm. Much appreciated.

    The only reason I asked was I recently seen loads of guys advertising firewood for sale and just presumed they were getting it from people who wanted timber removed from their land.


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