200+ timber sales

Since 1995 we have carried out over 200 electronic timber sales.

30 years of experience

30 years of experience in forest management harvesting and processing.

150,000t of logs per annum

In 2021 we sold over 150,000t with a value approaching £10 million pounds.

150 yeaRs of history

150 years of auctioneering history from cattle to combines, antique tables to trees!

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Timber Auctions operate Europe's leading electronic round timber marketing service for buyers and sellers throughout the UK.

Timber Auctions monthly electronic timber sales have been operating non stop since 1995, selling over £16 million worth of hardwood and softwood timber from both privately owned and Forestry Commission woodlands.

Our clients include individual woodland owners, estates, syndicates, trusts, pension funds, investment companies, management companies, consultants, local authorities, The Woodland Trust, The National Trust and the Forestry Commission.

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Coast Redwood sawlogs for sale

Cut to customers specification

We will shortly have a very unusual parcel of coast redwood sawlogs for sale

Approximately 2 lorry load of exceptional quality 18cm plus sawlogs

Produced from thinnings and cut to customers specifications, 1 log length >3.7m, 1 log length <3.7m.

5700t Spruce Clearfell

Rashiehill, Slamannan, Central Scotland

A nice standing sale of mainly Sitka spruce in central Scotland

 

 

Harvesting of ash hurley logs from diseased ash crop

Harvesting and forwarding complete, site ready for felling and extraction of hurley's

Euroforest standing sale site at Stillington

Site inspections identified some stems ideal for cutting ash hurley logs

Harvester has felled the main crop and cut those stems identified as hurley quality off at 1.4m

These will now be chainsaw felled and extracted.

 

Final thinning of mature spruce in Raisedale

Harvester carrying out low thinning of mature spruce

Final thinning of a mature stand of spruce by H&S Timber working on a Tilhill Harvesting site.

A light low crown thinning to remove some poorer stems, poor quality pine and to respace the crop out to final crop spacings

Difficult site with wet ground conditions and not as much brash as we would have liked.

2024 has been a very difficult year for harvesting due to the  incredible levels of rainfall.

Felling diseased ash at Huggate Wold

Harvester carrying out regeneration felling of mid rotation diseased ash

H&S Timber completing the felling of diseased ash on a Euroforest site in Huggate Wold

Removing the disease ash has allowed us to diversify the age of the stand and clear areas to replant with a more resilient mixture

Harvesting of diseased ash progressing well

Extracting 2.5m firewood

Felling and extraction of firewood and brash progressing well.

The exceptionally dry weather has kept ground damage to a minimum.

The team from J H Forestry are carrying out a selective felling to remove diseased ash and poorer quality stems of beech, sycamore, hornbeam and larch in preparation for replanting.

Sand Martin Discovery

July 2022

A little bit different to the normal inspections of crops for felling. 

Final Marking of Seed Trees

July 2022

Final marking of seed trees in a clearfell of really good quality mature ash in North Yorkshire. 

 

Glen Devon Spruce

June 2022

A nice parcel of spruce in Glen Devon which will be coming on to the market in late 2022. 

Scottish Tour

May 2022

A trip to the highlands and islands to look at standing parcels of timber for sale in the second half of 2022.