Ash versus Elm

Elm and Ash, both big broadleaved trees that produce big woodgrain in boards.

ash wood solid floor and scottish elm dinig table made for our stand at decorexThis picture shows an English Ash bespoke wood floor and wide Scottish Elm dining table made by Simon Thomas Pirie furniture makers for our HIllgrove Timber stand at Decorex 2021.

One of these beautiful timbers is robust and tough and one is too sweet and gentle for it’s own good. Guess which is which?

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Wood Knowledge: The Pips in Pippy Oak

We asked Tom where the the pips in Pippy Oak come from, here’s what he told us…

 

English Pippy Oak has been one of our specialist hardwood timbers for as long as we’ve been sawing logs.

There’s a very particular quality about it that’s not common to all tree and wood species. It’s the tiny pin knots in Oak wood, often found in clusters, usually not very far underneath the bark line and sometimes, much deeper into the tree.

Tom, our MD and chartered forest manager, explains how, being such long lived trees, Oaks use these knots as a way of adapting to be able withstand substantial climatic change. (more…)

Bespoke Green Oak Price Changes

From the 1st April our m3 green oak prices will rise by 10%.

green oak supplier of structural beams showing tannin reaction that can be cleaned, sanded or planed once drier AJF5258 copy 2 green oak supplier orders from sawmills in france awaiting delivery large structural green oak beam sections for timber building and cladding supply

Our structural Oak is arguably the best in the world and comes to you direct from our French sawmill partners.

It’s a bespoke ‘just-in-time’ supply chain that has been built up over 30 years.

As log buyers and green oak suppliers we track the market closely. Last autumn the log buying market in France, our main source for structural green and seasoned Oak beams, revealed the potential for the strong price changes we have seen kicking in this winter and spring.

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Timber Certification: 100% or none

At English Woodlands Timber we have firm beliefs about responsible, sustainable timber sourcing.

It all starts with the trees.

sustinable timber tom measuing and analysing a parcel of english oak butts he has sourced for sawing

Our beliefs inform our choice to subscribe to chain-of-custody certification schemes that provide assurance of ‘legal and sustainable’ timber felling as part of formal forest management plans.

The chain-of-custody is key to the tracking and tracing of the tree and timber throughout the supply chain. (more…)

#BreakTheBias for Women in Forestry & Beyond

Today is International Women’s Day and we’ve joined forces with Grown in Britain to support the #BreakTheBias campaign because it feel’s necessary to champion women in forestry and beyond.

christine luffman head of sales english woodlands timber sarah jane farmer head of sale english woodlands timber Ian mcnally owner director english woodlands timber
Here’s Christine Luffman, Sarah Jane Farmer and owner Ian McNally showing their support for #BreakTheBias.

Whilst we’re conscious that, in general, women are under-represented in the forestry and timber industries in our timber and forestry business women make up close to 50% of the leadership team.

However, we know that’s uncommon.

International Women’s Day 2022 and this campaign by Grown in Britain – the organisation that built the certification system for homegrown timber and who champion woodland creation and woodland management – is a beautiful opportunity to open up awareness industry wide.

In our view, as the forestry and timber industries grow it will need to open up recruitment strategies to include more women to progress, to innovate, to grow and to become genuinely more sustainable.

We hope you’ll take a moment to consider supporting the International Women’s Day #BreakTheBias campaign, today and throughout the year, by actively supporting equality and diversity and by calling-out gender-bias, discrimination and stereotyping whenever you see it.

Here’s to all the women in forestry and timber, past and present and to more in the future.

 

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