Between the showers yesterday came some quite dramatic light and a great chance for this striking picture to be taken. Our friend Ray Powell brought logs in from Devon and is taking this load of sawn Welsh Larch out to Grangemouth in Scotland. Whateve…
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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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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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House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee visit Ransfords
Great to welcome members of the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee to the home of Great British Timber today as part of their inquiry into sustainable timber in the UK and the UK’s contribution to global deforestation. The inquiry is investigating how the UK, which imports most of its timber, can best scale up… Read more »
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Timber harvesting in the Mendips
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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The resaw at Ransfords – a longstanding workhorse
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 …
More about safety for visitors
We posted in November about our use of a new system called Zonesafe which has made a useful contribution to safety in the yard. All our wheel loaders are now fitted with sensors. Visitors wear tags around their neck when on site and if they get close to a machine it bleeps and vibrates to… Read more »
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It’s taken a year but it’s well worth the time and effort
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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Chris Offa becomes a Ransfords director
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 »
A rapid response thanks to our flexible friends
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 »
Alex keeps up the tradition
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 »
Round to square and back again!
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….
How we make the most of every log we process
Nothing beats the sheer versatility of timber
At top left are acoustic fencing panels headed for south Wales. They’ll reduce the impact of noise created by traffic and commercial activity and are effective precisely because they are made of timber. Because its surface appears to be so hard we tend to think of timber as a completely solid material. In fact, the… Read more »
It’s been a season to remember for Ludlow Cricket Club
Ransfords sponsor a number of local sporting and voluntary organisations among them (through our sister company Woodlink Forest Products) Ludlow Cricket Club whose First Team became Shropshire County Cricket League Premier League Champions for only the second time in the club’s history, exactly 25 years after their previous triumph in 1997. Following a hugely competitive… Read more »
When the wind blows
This video sent to us by our partners Euroforest shows one of our woodlands in Devon which was badly hit with severe windblown damage – over half of it was flattened during Storm Arwin in November last year. Some products from this site have been marketed locally and the log material has come to our… Read more »
Kallfass get straight to the point
The makers of our new automatic post pointing line have written an extensive study of the project on their website here. The new Kallfass line is now fully operational and has made a huge difference both in terms of the speed and accuracy of the process itself and in virtually eliminating manual handling of these very… Read more »
The virtuous circle of commercial forestry
These pictures are taken at one of our forestry holdings in the south west of England – an area whose warm and damp climate produces some of the best home-grown timber. The top picture shows logs being collected at the roadside to be transported to the mill here in Bishop’s Castle. The bottom one shows… Read more »
Lights, camera, action!
The video of our operation here at Ransfords which appears elsewhere on this website is now a few years old and so doesn’t give an accurate picture of recent investments. To put that right we’re in the throes of making a new video to chart the journey of the log from forest to finished product…. Read more »
Lights, camera, action!
The video of our operation here at Ransfords which appears elsewhere on this website is now a few years old and so doesn’t give an accurate picture of recent investments. To put that right we’re in the throes of making a new video to chart the journey of the log from forest to finished product…. Read more »