It was great to hear from Jane Allard today. Every year she grows plants to sell as a way of raising funds for the #SpArC here in Bishop’s Castle and in recent years we’ve helped start the process by giving her some bags of #sylvagrow. SylvaGrow® is an award-winning, RHS endorsed peat-free compost which is…
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When the sun shines….
Friday was a glorious day here in Bishop’s Castle so our solar panels were generating electricity at a cracking rate. This grab of one of the control panel screens shows us producing over 500kw. Double it up and you can see we’re at 1mw. We’re producing more than we use on days like this so…
Real progress at St. George’s School in Clun
You might recall that we helped St. George’s Church of England School in Clun by donating some timber recently to create a timber framed shelter so that pupils can observe the pond and work outdoors whenever possible. As you can see from the picture the dream is steadily becoming reality and it really won’t be…
A welcome visitor to the mill
It was great to see this SylvaGrow® liveried trailer picking up materials in the yard today: it’s a very large and physical representation of our determination not to waste any part of the logs we mill. SylvaGrow® is an award-winning, RHS endorsed peat-free compost which is used by gardeners throughout the UK and is manufactured…
There’s a new defibrillator in Bishop’s Castle
Thanks to a 50% grant from government and the balance from us there’s now a new public defibrillator on Station Street. It’s near the Public Hall and opposite the car park. Public defibrillators save lives: more than 25,000 people die from cardiac arrests outside of hospital annually. If a defibrillator is used within one minute,…
There’s a new defibrillator in Bishop’s Castle
Thanks to a 50% grant from government and the balance from us there’s now a new public defibrillator on Station Street. It’s near the Public Hall and opposite the car park. Public defibrillators save lives: more than 25,000 people die from cardiac arrests outside of hospital annually. If a defibrillator is used within one minute,…
Further investment in solar energy
These drone images taken by a friend of ours yesterday show the scale of our investment in solar energy. Harnessing the power of the sun in this way not only reduces the overall carbon footprint of the business as a whole but also makes it less vulnerable to energy price shocks. This in turn makes…
It’s the early bird that catches the worm
You can see daylight arriving in these shots from our very early delivery to a site near Hull. It’s one of two loads of Highways treated post and rail fencing going in today. We and our customers have had a really busy start to the year…an…
More on the harvesting at Bury Ditches
Here are some more images from the harvesting going on at Bury Ditches. The GIF show the location and the logs being loaded to go to the mill. The last frame is a justifiably happy Simon Flack of SJF Timber as another load goes on its way The video shows Simon bringing logs up to…
Back to work on Monday – and ready to go
 The mill re-opens on Monday 8th January after a break for the holidays and the chance to catch up on some much-needed maintenance. We’re more than ready for action with vast stockpiles of logs waiting to go through the mill. The logs in the picture will keep us going for a day. All of… Read more »
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Improvement in capacity for cundy stake treatment
It’s great to see our new cundy stake trolley in action. This piece of kit was manufactured in-house by our own team and has massively increased our treatment load capacity. This in turn has allowed us to greatly improve our customer lead times…
From forest to finished timber products
We’re really pleased to have a new video which shows the progress of timber production from the forest to the finished product. The video features processes and production facilities unique to Ransfords and which make us one of the most advanced…
Treatment Centre Update
Hard to believe that our fully automated treatment building has been up and running for almost five years now. The first picture shows the facility under construction exactly five years ago and alongside it the building now from the same spot. In that time we have processed thousands of loads of timber in what to… Read more »
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A jigsaw puzzle solved
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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A jigsaw puzzle solved
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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Traffic noise has a profound negative impact on the health of millions says report from House of Lords Science and Technology Committee.
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: a story of independence, survival, and going from strength to strength
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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Bark, sawdust, secret science, and green fingers
It was great to hear from Jane Allard that after selling plants from her home for nearly three months she has raised £466 in aid of SpArC – our local sports and arts centre here in Bishop’s castle. We helped Jane get started this time by donating some bags of SylvaGrow® peat-free compost which is… Read more »
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When the chips are down you can count on Ransfords
What more effective or attractive way to enhance the setting for an outdoor wedding than dressing uneven ground with woodchips? This Welshpool couple had exactly that idea when the time came to erect the marquee for their recent nuptials. The ground on which the marquee was to stand had been churned up by heavy vehicles… Read more »
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Trailer loads ready to roll
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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