Archive: May 2022
Five reasons why timber is so expensive right now
May 10, 2022
If you’ve been looking at buying wood lately, you may have been surprised. The price of many of the popular wood species has doubled over the last couple of years. And, while standard building softwood seems to have levelled off or dropped back a bit, more specialist woods like oak are getting more expensive. The big question is: ...
How we turn trees into beautiful oak planks
February 3, 2022
It may be hibernation time. But at Vastern Timber, we couldn’t be further from hibernation mode. In fact, if you popped down to our sawmill right now, you’d witness a hive of activity. These cold, damp days are actually very helpful for us. When the temperature drops and the humidity increases, it’s the optimum time for sawing oa...
Customer notice: electrical work planned for 29 Sept
September 28, 2021
Electrical infrastructure works are taking place at our Wootton Bassett site as part of ongoing work to expand our production capacity. These works require a short power outage which we expect to affect our operations for a few hours on 29 September. We may be unable to respond to messages for a brief period, and we expect our paymen...
Part ten of Wood for the trees, on rewilding
August 9, 2021
Hundreds of people have liked, shared and watched the latest episode of 'Wood for the Trees,' since its release 3 days ago on youtube and vimeo. This series, about wood, trees and tree planting, is a project from film-maker Charly Le Marchant and Vastern Timber managing director Tom Barnes. Part ten looks at rewilding, and was filmed a...
Customer notice: electrical work planned for 3rd August
July 30, 2021
On Tuesday 3rd August electrical infrastructure works are taking place at our Wootton Bassett site. These will require a short power outage which we expect to affect our operations for a few hours. We may be unable to respond to messages for a brief period, and we expect our payment process to be offline for a short time. We appreciate...
Season’s greetings & Happy new saw!
December 22, 2020
Christmas came early at the Vastern Timber sawmill when the new Primultini band mill carriage saw was delivered. Safely unloading this huge machine took a little time... (video best with sound) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1RkbEhai38 Come next year we’ll be cutting even faster and better than before with this fine machine. I...
