Timber Harvesting and Markets
Conifers
- Harvesting and Selling Timber from Conifer Forests. In this section, you will find information on:
- Step 1: Seek Advice and Training
- Step 2: Know your Forest
- Step 3: Plan your Timber Sale
- Step 4: Prepare for Harvesting Operations
- Step 5: Agree a Timber Sales Contract
- Step 6: Control your Harvest and Sale
- First thinning of conifer forests
- Check suitability to thin with the Thinning Ready Reckoner
- Timber measurement in conifer forests
- Number of trees removed during thinning
- Timber harvesting in farm forestry
- Timber Harvesting and Sales Checklist
Broadleaves
- Selection of Potential Crop Trees
- Tending and thinning of broadleaf forests
- Production of quality hardwood timber
- Felling, presentation & grading of hardwood timber
Timber transport
Markets
Regulations
- Felling of trees - legal requirements including a section on exempted trees
- Appropriate assessment procedures
- Felling and reforestation standards
- Deforestation - legal requirements
- Health and Safety regulations
- Operating a chainsaw safely
Publications
- Farm Forestry Series 22: Forestry Health & Safety (PDF)
- Farm Forestry Series 23: Timber Harvesting and Sales Checklist (PDF)
Teagasc Talking Timber 2018 – log quality requirements for timber buyers
Aodan Kealey, timber buyer with Murray Timber Group discusses a range of log quality issues that influences the value and purchase of timber by sawmills and timber processors.