On-site Milling Services

We offer tree milling services across the East Midlands

Areas we cover include Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, South Yorkshire

There are many reason for felling trees; disease, storm damage, over-grown or in the way of a proposed building project.

All of these are valid reasons but what to do with the felled tree;

Rather than having the trees cut up for firewood or sent for biomass fuel why not have them milled into planks,

dried and made into furniture.

No one knows the beauty of what lies within, that's where we come in; our on-site milling service gives you

the opportunity to turn what would once have become firewood into usable timber planks.

Window of opportunity:

October - March is the best time of year to have that damaged tree felled, then we can mill it to your requirements
ready to take advantage of the first drying season.

Flexible approach to tree milling:

Control over plank dimensions:
If you have a specific project in mind for the timber once milled or a cutting list, we will be happy to work to it.

Our milling service:

Take advantage of our on-site milling services and cut out the expense of having felled trees collected and transported to timber mills off site.

Images below shows an assortment of the type of work I undertake and locations,

hover your cursor over the photo to view information or click the photo for a larger view.

12" square beam at 14' long to be used in a new eco build. Milled from a Deordar planted on the farm by the current owners father.
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Reclaimed beams from a demolished victorian warehouse at Kelham Island, Sheffield being milled into boards for use around the new housing complex being built on site
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Walnut loaded, waiting for milling instructions from customer
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Chainsaw milling a large felled Oak at clients property
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Moving the milled planks with my own loader is far easier and safer than by hand with staff.
The loader doesn't moan as much either!
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Milled planks neatly stacked and sticked out to dry.
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Turning a lump of London Plane to continue milling.
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Chainsaw milling large Ash at customer's farm site
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Car body panel moulds sawn into slabs at customer's factory site for re-use
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Images below are of a huge 400yr Oak that died in 2021 and had to be left for a year before being

felled to make sure it wouldn't recover.

It was destined to be chipped for biomass, that was until I was asked if it were possible to

mill into useable timber.

The main trunk of the tree was 1.6m in diameter x 4m long making it to large to fit straight on to the

bandsaw mill, first it needed to be broken down into manageable sections using the chainsaw mill.

The branch sections were a little smaller at 1m x 5m they also required a little tweaking before loading

onto the bandsaw mill.

At 1.6m in diameter this majestic tree would need some serious thought on the best way to mill
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Even the branches were huge
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In total there were four large branch sections to mill
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In order to fit on the bandsaw mill I had to use my chainsaw mill with a 5' guide bar to break the main trunk down to get the best fom it
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By cutting the trunk this way for final processing I would be able to mill highly prized quarter sawn timber. This type of cut gives both a stable and figured board
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Each section was carefully loaded onto the bandsaw mill for processing
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From the first section we milled 21 boards 1" x 24" x 14'
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This is just some of the boards I was able to mill from the trunk and branches, a total of 340 cu/ft of usable timber that would otherwise have gone up in smoke as biomass.
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Just as important as the quantity and value of timber produced is the fact that the carbon captured by the tree over the

past 400yrs will remain stored in the milled timber for centuries to come rather than being released once again into

the atmosphere had the tree gone to biomass.

For Terms and Conditions of the on-site milling services please visit here