Timber Harvesting

Expert timber harvesting services that enhance woodland health, promote biodiversity and maximise timber yield.

Benefits

Woodland Management

Sustainable woodland management balances long-term health, productivity and biodiversity. It combines practices such as thinning, selective felling, habitat enhancement, access improvements and restocking. Each woodland requires a tailored approach based on its species, age and condition to ensure it remains resilient, diverse and productive for the future.

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  • Encouraging tree growth

    Achieved through the process of thinning, which reduces competition for light, water, and nutrients, allowing the remaining trees to thrive.

  • Improving stability

    Carefully planned harvesting operations can promote the strongest trees, encouraging the development of root systems and stems, which reduces the risk of wind damage.

  • Reducing the impact of disease

    Diverse and well managed woodlands are more resilient to pests and diseases. Respacing dense crops will increase air movement and reduce humidity, lessening the spread of pathogens.

  • Providing habitat for wildlife

    Managed woodlands are known to be far better for wildlife than unmanaged woodlands. Planned management interventions will increase the amount of light that reaches the forest floor, which encourages the growth of ground flora. Decaying wood habitats can be created and enhanced by carefully selecting retentions.

  • Diversifying age structure

    Selective felling can encourage the development of understory, which in turn diversifies the age structure of a woodland. We specialise in the management of continuous cover systems, where a future timber crop is grown underneath a mature overstory.

  • Increasing the timber return

    We maximise the product recovery from forestry operations to ensure the maximum financial return for the landowner. We work with the full spectrum of sawmillers and other niche businesses in the wood products sector. Thinning at specific intervals and at an appropriate intensity, will increase the volume of timber that a woodland can produce during its typical rotation period.

What We Offer

Our Timber services include

  • Whole tree harvesting

  • Clear fell, selective fell and thinning

  • Continuous cover systems

  • Specialist steep ground harvesting

  • Brash chipping

  • Forestry roads and drainage

  • Stump clearance

  • Chainsaw services

  • Ground preparation

  • Fleet transportation

  • Grants and Licences

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Chalford Timber

What Chalford Timber can offer you

So, if you have a woodland that you think needs some work carrying out, then please do not hesitate to contact us. We can come out and advise you on this matter. If you are a woodland owner and you are considering planning management interventions, do please get in touch. We would love to visit and learn about your woodland management objectives.

If you are considering investing in woodland or if you would like to market your woodland, we are experienced in valuations, sales and purchases. Our wide network of clients within the industry ensures we can market woodland to a large market and obtain the best return for the landowner.

We can obtain any licences that are required.

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Contact details for more information

The Timber Harvesting Team

Office:
01568 616980
Mobile:
Louis Saer: M. 07807 125 852: Tom Blythe: M. 07856 918 040
Email:
tom@chalfordsilviculture.co.uk