Three Dorset companies · one yard
Clearcut Tree Surgery, Woodland Firewood and Clearcut Confidential Waste are three separate companies run from The Clearcut Offices in Ferndown. They share a yard, a workshop and their drivers, so the trees one company takes down become the logs another one delivers.
The loop
Scroll to follow one tree from a garden in Poole to a fireplace in Wimborne, and the truck that comes home full.
Skip the storyThe climber works down the tree a limb at a time. Each limb is cut and lowered on a rigging line by the groundie, so nothing drops onto the greenhouse. We never fell a tree for firewood: every log comes from a tree that had to come down anyway.
With the cones out, the brash goes through the chipper into the chip truck and the stem rounds are loaded up. The garden is swept before the crew leaves.
The chip truck brings everything back to the yard near West Moors, just up the road from the offices in Ferndown. Nothing goes in a skip.
The woodchip is tipped into its own bay. The timber is forklifted into the timber bay to season, and green waste goes into a third. Each one has a use.
Some of the timber goes through the processor, is split to 8–10 inches and dried in the kiln until the meter reads 5 to 11%. The rest seasons in the bays, which is how there are part seasoned, seasoned and kiln dried logs to choose from.
The deliveries go out first. This load is for a house in Wimborne, where someone is about to light the first fire of the evening.
On the way home the same truck collects an office's confidential waste. The bins go in locked and the doors are locked behind them, so the truck never drives back empty.
Back at the yard the bins go straight into the secure shredding unit, which is covered by cameras and closed to visitors. The paper is shredded, baled and strapped for recycling, and the office gets a certificate of destruction.
Shared recycling
Ten loads are coming along the belt. Send each one to the right bay before it falls off the end. Anything that falls off goes in the skip, and that's exactly what we're trying to avoid.
Kept out of landfill0 kg
Loads left10
Streak0 ×1
Your best–
Pick a shift
Tap a bay, drag the load onto one, or press 1–5. Three right in a row doubles your kilos.
Every real job gets sorted like this in the yard.
New personal best
Shared drivers
The companies share their drivers. The firewood goes out first, and on the way back the same truck collects confidential waste, locked in. A truck that would have come home empty earns its trip back, so there are fewer vans on Dorset's roads and less fuel burned.
An example day, not a real one. Miles are straight lines between towns plus 30% for the roads. Empty miles are driven with nothing on board.
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Our companies
Each company has its own managers, staff, prices and customer service, and your agreement is with the company you book. To book or ask a question, contact the company directly.
Tree felling, pruning, crown reductions, hedge work and stump grinding for homes, estates and businesses.
Registered officeClearcut Tree SurgerySecure collection and shredding of confidential paperwork for businesses and homes, with a certificate of destruction for every job.
Registered officeClearcut Confidential WasteKiln dried and seasoned logs, kindling and woodchip, delivered across Bournemouth, Poole and Dorset.
Registered officeWoodland FirewoodEach company has its own managers, staff, prices and customer service. Your agreement is always with the company you book.
The yard, the workshop, the training and the drivers are shared, which keeps standards high and cuts down on miles.
Clearcut Offices, Glenacres Nursery, Forest Links Road, Ferndown, BH22 9PH is the registered office of all three companies. The yard near West Moors isn't open to the public.