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We were very pleased to donate a tree to the volunteers in our home town who have worked to create the right atmosphere for Christmas this year. Like the timber we mill, all of which is British Grown,  the tree is relatively local and came from our holding at Taylors Wood near Presteigne in Powys around…

We’ve never known a busier run-in to the year-end so it’s a case of all hands on deck and of calling in some old friends from retirement – in this case K100 SAW, a 1992 Scania 143 which we have owned from new. The vehicle has covered an astonishing  1.7 million kilometres in its time,…

We are well used to our acoustic fencing panels being installed close to road, railways and industrial activity but we’re finding them increasingly being installed to reduce noise in a domestic setting.  Here are some double sided panels which, because they’re for a local resident in Bishop’s Castle, we not only manufactured but also installed….

This might not be the best picture in the world: it’s taken on a ‘phone on a gloomy North Yorkshire November morning but in it’s way it speaks volumes about the times we live in. The picture was taken by the driver just a few minutes earlier than this web posting and shortly after picking up a load…

  This load of acoustic fencing panels is bound for developments adjacent to the M8 near Glasgow where housing and other facilities are built close to the road. The installation is being undertaken by Mulligan Fencing, who are one of the most respected contractors of their kind. Our panels are all tested in accordance with current relevant British…

This load – destined for a customer and place we cannot mention – would be impressive enough at the best of times. Look more closely though and you will see that every bit of timber has undergone a secondary process to produce bespoke fencing. In fact, there are: 1077 mortices 2124 tenon ends 1850 half…

We spent part of the summer shut down installing a new log infeed and butt reducer to speed up the process of preparing the logs for debarking then cutting. The new line – being delivered and craned into place in the pictures above – was made by Holtec in Germany with the old taken out…

This pictures shows 55 bays of 4m high acoustic fencing (2m bays to be stacked on top of each other to reach the desired height) with each and every fitting needed to assemble them on site all loaded on one delivery using David Ford’s low loading trailer.  The load is London-bound to a project being…

It doesn’t seem so long ago that we were announcing the busiest month in the history of our sawmill but here we are again: May was the busiest month ever and it’s entirely possible that June will beat it. The intense activity in the mill itself is, of course, matched with similar activity in both…

Meet Alex Evans who will be one of the third generation of the family to serve the mill when he joins us after finishing some exams and undertaking a forestry course at Walford College in Baschurch also known as North Shropshire College. It’s no co-incidence that he has been photographed near a large piece of…