Spectacular Timber for Incredible Projects
Burty's Timber
Provide Scottish Wood for your project
Oak, Douglas fir and Larch
From stock / cut to order
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Provide Scottish Wood for your project
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Oak, Douglas fir and Larch
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From stock / cut to order
Our Products
Kiln dried boards
We stock: flooring, benches, shelves, interior facings and paneling
Structural beams
We cut: Oak, Douglas fir and Larch up to 8.7m lengths, rough sawn or off the saw
Timber For Construction, Heavy Lifting & Transport Projects
We supply: sleepers, mats, bearers, skids and packers
Machining Services on Demand
Green or kiln dried timber planed or moulded, floor boards, ship lap, facings, etc
local, sustainable, hand-picked, milled and dried timber with a low carbon footprint and minimal environmental impact!
Instead of using mass harvested wood shipped in from Europe or further, full of chemicals.
Meet Our Trees
Oak
Joinery grade: Green, air dried or kiln dried, knots under 25mm and only occasional small shakes and angled grain.
Character grade: Kiln dried, knots and marks under 50mm and small amounts of splits and angled grain.
Rustic grade: Kiln dried, big and interesting knots and splits, holes and sap wood.
Scottish Larch
Premium Grade A: Green, air dried or kiln dried, knots under 30mm and no sap wood or wane.
Exterior Grade B: Green, knots under 50% of the face width, some sap wood, occasional wane.
Douglas Fir
Premium Grade A: Green, air dried or kiln dried, Knots under 30mm and no wane.
Exterior Grade B: Green, knots under 50% of the face width, occasional wane.
Our Team
A Family Run Business Based in Perthshire, Scotland.
Burty is the family dog along with Blue the lab; both enthusiastic, strong, and reliable.
We specialise in larger logs from older trees which, we think, should be treated with respect. Our trees would normally be disregarded for biomass chip or firewood by the timber industry.
Large amount of our wood comes from wind-blown and fallen trees where the economics don’t stack up for larger mills.
Wanted
Our goal is to save as many trees as we can from going for fire wood. So if you’ve felled a small forest or just a few trees we aim to pay a higher price and come and pick out a few loads before it gets burnt!
- Round Timber
- Hardwood
- From One Tree to Small Packages
- Anything Over 500mm Dia. And 1.8 Long
Our preference is; inspect, make an offer and if accepted we cut to length on site to ensure the most appropriate sizes are achieved.
Technical information
Please keep in mind, timber changes colour and shape as it is “worked”, as it did when growing. It is not wholly unpredictable but don’t be too upset when this happens. If in doubt or concerned about what might happen just ask. As a guide, the drier and more boring the board, the less likely you will have issues. Regardless, inside, it will get darker and change in appearance from the sun. Timber outside can easily crack, twist and significantly change colour during the seasons.
Kiln drying is essential if you are to use the wood inside. We stock hardwoods air dried at 18% moisture content. We will kiln dry down to 12% for internal use. This takes, typical, 4-6 wks so please consider when planning. Drying in advance and storing in an industrial building till sold will only return moisture to the wood so we try and avoid this.
We will usually supply pieces a little over length with the ends cut by chain saw during felling. We can crosscut at 90deg. to within 2mm+ or – at additional cost.
Everything is “off the saw”, cut in house. We can thickness / plane wood as required at an additional cost.
We can ship nationally so please ask for a price with your order.
Select table tops or work tops, specific interesting pieces, up to 1.5m wide in one piece. Alternatively, select book-matched pieces if you need something wider still.
Send us a cutting list in metric, on Excel, if possible or give us a call.
For a contract milling, bring your timber for us to cut, we charge by the cubic meter.
Re-sawing / ripping and planing can we requested if you have over 1m3 to machine?
We will sell round timber too. If you have a requirement, ask!