Work on improving the A465 or the Heads of the Valleys Road was first mooted as long ago as 1990 but not started until 2005. Almost 30 years after the need for improvement was indentified, it’s great to see this remarkable engineering project getting closer to final completion – and it’s good to be a… Read more »
Category: great british timber
A closer look inside our new Timber Treatment Centre
This sequence shows untreated timber being loaded outside the new Centre then being moved across the floor towards the autoclave. As the untreated timber enters the autoclave a treated load which has been ejected earlier and left to drain is moved back across the floor to exit and then be stacked prior to delivery to the… Read more »
The forestry century
This year sees the centenary of the passing of the first Forestry Act which established the Forestry Commission and, in the immediate aftermath of the First World War, recognised the strategic importance of forestry and home grown timber. Confor will be marking the centenary throughout the year and has produced this logo to mark it…. Read more »
Beating those dreary wet winter Sunday blues
We’ve all experienced those dreary wet winter Sundays which seem to stretch on for ever. Our Operations Director beat one like that yesterday by visiting our forestry holding near Aberhosan which we are currently harvesting with MG Harvesting and Euroforest. The rain stopped just long enough to take these pictures.. and then down it came again. Even… Read more »
No part of the log shall be wasted
This is almost an 11th commandment for people in the timber trade and it’s as important to Ransfords as anyone. The more material we recover from every tree felled the more efficient we are and the more competitive we can be. This short clip shows small diameter round wood (the thinner part at the top… Read more »
Here’s a sight for sore eyes
A whole load of Great British Timber being delivered in an appropriately liveried vehicle. In fact, the vehicle is from the fleet of our new haulage partner RL Holding who are registered under the FORS Scheme, taking a load of post and rail fencing, treated to Highways Agency standards, to the A14 improvements for our Customers Alan Mulligan Fencing…. Read more »
Here’s a sight for sore eyes
A whole load of Great British Timber being delivered in an appropriately liveried vehicle. In fact, the vehicle is from the fleet of our new haulage partner RL Holding who are registered under the FORS Scheme, taking a load of post and rail fencing, treated to Highways Agency standards, to the A14 improvements for our Customers Alan Mulligan Fencing…. Read more »
A 100 year old timber framed cottage now re-clad in Great British Timber from Ransfords.
When the owners of this cottage in deeply rural Wiltshire discovered the place in 1993 it was love at first sight. “Wood houses are a sensible choice especially in regard to maintenance and economy. People fail to realise how naturally warm they are and, to be honest, all of the brick built houses we had… Read more »
An astonishing transformation
These two aerial view of our Bishop’s Castle sawmill were taken about 50 years apart in the 1960’s and earlier this year. We’ve circled two points common to each to help you get orientated. They’re about all that remain of the original buildings. The rest in the modern picture is the result of well over… Read more »
Big thinking in Southampton
At their highest, these acoustic fencing panels stand 12 metres tall. Designed to reduce the impact of noise from a new warehouse development on the residential properties shown in the picture, the fencing was installed by Procter Fencing Systems, one of the most respected fencing installation companies in the UK and long-standing customer of Ransfords…. Read more »
Noise reduction on the M1
This picture shows our Noisewall single side reflective panels currently being installed by Littlewood Fencing on the M1 in the East Midlands between Junction 23A and 25. This huge project is one by Costain Galliford Try Construction to convert this stretch of road into a Safe Motorway. The re-purposing of the hard shoulder to take running traffic of all sizes… Read more »
The new Timber Treatment Centre from the air
When the autoclave was craned into our new Timber Treatment Centre last week it was quite spectacular: a crane rated with a lifting capacity of 400 tons hoisting a 52 ton object through the building frame and placing it exactly in position 16 metres away. Hats off to Sam Cook of Tremio Aerial Photography who flew the… Read more »
Big lifts, with more to come
Nine weeks almost to the day since the first structural steel arrived on site the huge tanks which will store the chemicals used in our new Timber Treatment Centre have been hoisted into place. Next to go in will be the massive autoclave, the vessel into which the timber is placed for treatment under extremely high pressure. We’ll… Read more »
A red letter day in the history of our sawmill
On the 4th July 1978 Alan and Brian Evans stepped in to save the Bishop’s Castle sawmill of Charles Ransford & Son Ltd which was on the verge of bankruptcy. At that time the mill employed over 120 people, all of them local and had the mill gone all of those jobs would have gone with… Read more »
A red letter day in the history of our sawmill
On the 4th July 1978 Alan and Brian Evans stepped in to save the Bishop’s Castle sawmill of Charles Ransford & Son Ltd which was on the verge of bankruptcy. At that time the mill employed over 120 people, all of them local and had the mill gone all of those jobs would have gone with… Read more »
What a (Timber Treatment Centre) picture!
What a (Timber Treatment Centre) picture!
The virtuous circle of forestry and sawmilling
This picture sequence illustrates perfectly why Great British Timber is such a popular choice for construction and landscaping: it grows on trees and is thus entirely sustainable. That’s provided of course – as all UK forestry operators ensure – that the felled trees are replaced. By specifying Great British Timber from Ransfords you’re helping to safeguard rural employment in… Read more »
A hive of concrete pouring activity
This is the scene at our new Timber Treatment Centre today as the mixer wagons arrive to pour the concrete floor. It’s a pivotal moment in the construction: once the floor is set we can get on with the process of installing the autoclave, other equipment and the services which will make this one of the… Read more »
A sign of real progress
Here’s a sight for sore eyes. Thanks to meticulous planning, the first steel for our new Timber Treatment Centre is hoisted into place. We won’t tell you how many more to go, but we see this as a sign of real progress!