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We’re always keen to ensure that wagons leave our mill with full loads of finished timber even if it means loading up with orders for more than one customer. This load is more than usually efficient in that way. It ‘s going to five different drops and includes untreated cladding, timber treated to UC4 and… Read more »
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We’re always keen to ensure that wagons leave our mill with full loads of finished timber even if it means loading up with orders for more than one customer. This load is more than usually efficient in that way. It ‘s going to five different drops and includes untreated cladding, timber treated to UC4 and… Read more »
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Environmental noise and light pollution contribute to a range of adverse health outcomes including heart disease and premature death. Yet light and noise remain neglected pollutants, poorly understood and poorly regulated says a report by the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee which counts some of the nation’s leading scientists among its members. They… Read more »
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The fourth of July is mostly remembered as the day the people of the USA celebrate Independence Day but it’s also the anniversary of the day, 45 years ago, that this business was saved from going bust by the intervention of the Evans family. Brothers Alan & Brian Evans saved the sawmill from bankruptcy in… Read more »
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Nothing gives us greater pleasure than fine weather for landscaping and construction and lots of trailer-loads of timber products ready to leave our yard. In the background are full loads of treated and untreated boards and rails. In the foreground, one of many future loads of acoustic fencing panels which are destined to go round… Read more »
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We’re in Fencing and Landscaping News this month talking about the significant investments we’ve made in the business recently. It’s quite a story which you can read on the magazine’s blog here.
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We’ve all enjoyed the stunning images shared with us by AW Jenkinson driver Ray Powell. We managed to turn the tables on him at the mill so here is in the one of our sheds loading up some of our Welsh Larch cladding for a delivery to Scotland. We had to work quickly mind you:… Read more »
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Thanks to the team for these pictures showing off their new jackets – complete with our logo on the back. Sport of every kind is a big part of life in a small community like Bishop’s Castle and we were delighted to help with some sponsorship. Good luck to the under 12s and all the… Read more »
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Here’s another illustration of the importance of forestry and sawmilling – not only to the nation but also to its rural areas. This picture is taken above our sawmill in Bishop’s Castle, Shropshire. In the last few years over £25 million has been invested here to make it one of the most efficient mills of… Read more »
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If ever a picture demonstrated the importance of forestry to the prosperity of rural areas it’s this one. This drone shot is from our friend Ray Powell of AW Jenkinson loading 12 foot Larch for us at East Harptree on The Mendips. The planting, management, harvesting and transport associated with forests such as these –… Read more »
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We’ve been talking a lot about our new machinery lately but here’s a clip of a longstanding workhorse. This EWD twin band resaw beavers away every working day cutting big blocks of 3.7m Spruce which are eventually transformed into feather …
We’re shooting a new video to explain the processes here at the mill. It should go live in the next month or so. In this sequence of stills we see cameraman Sam Cook of Tremio shooting footage of our new tray sorter for heavy items – just one of a number of recent investments here…. Read more »
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Our new tray sorter for heavy items like gate posts is now up and running almost exactly 12 months after we started preparing the ground. Click below to check it out….
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We are delighted to announce the promotion of Chris Offa from Sales Manager to Sales Director and his appointment as a director of the company. Chris joined Ransfords in February 2013 and has been instrumental in transforming the company’s sales efforts over that period. “Our business has enjoyed a sustained period of growth in the… Read more »
We posted the other day about a load of beech coming into us from Savernake Forest. The AW Jenkinson driver who dropped that load off was Ray Powell…the same Ray Powell who brought logs into us yesterday and took a load of posts back to Cornwall for us to be delivered this morning. Ray’s a… Read more »
Yesterday was our first day back at work so it was nice to hear from a customer who wanted a load of posts. Trouble was that they were needed in Cornwall this week! As luck would have it we had a log wagon in the yard unloading, so, we loaded it up with the posts… Read more »
This load of Beech was delivered to us just before Christmas courtesy of Euroforest and AW Jenkinson and their driver Ray. The logs will be turned into kiln dried firewood in very short order. The load is especially interesting since it comes from Savernake Forest which covers around 4,500 acres in Wiltshire – and has… Read more »
This picture shows Alex Evans, who has recently obtained his HGV licence, about to deliver some local orders for Ransfords. Hats off to him for the qualification, and for becoming the first of the fifth generation of the Evans family to get behind the wheel in this way. Alex follows his father, Alistair, his grandfather… Read more »
Most of our time at the sawmill is spent turning round logs into square bits of useful timber. However, sometimes we need to make the square bits round again! This video shows you how we do it….
In our business we’re used to taking the long view. A commercial forest like this one can take over 50 years to come to maturity from time of first planting – and it’s entirely dependent on nature delivering the goods. We take the same long-term view when it comes to growing our business: constantly investing… Read more »
