Cutting large piece of wood . . .

At least 2 log-splitting steel wedges and sledge hammer and some muscle

How far and over what sort of ground do you want it moved? There might be something you can do with pry bars, wedges, rollers and dollies. With that sort of length it sounds like you can get a good amount of leverage on it, ie get pry bars under one end, then insert wedges until you can get it on a dolly, then repeat for the other end.

I recently bought a couple of these dollies which seem decent enough:

however the wheels run really well so they need to be chocked when trying to load them up, otherwise they'll run away as you're trying to drag something onto them.

Cheap dollies often show up in Lidl/Aldi too.

In the olden days...

Theo

Are we talking bit of tree trunk, or a prepared bit of seasoned timber?

(that quantity of the latter would be worth a fair bit to the right person!)

Chainsaw would be the obvious answer... If you are in no rush, then a conventional handsaw would also do it.

It'll be well seasoned etc. - it was used as a display piece for some high end exhibition:

Doubtless!

Yep, looking like hand saw. it might be worth investing in a decent one.

Bow saw

How clean or precise do the cuts have to be?

There is a machine shop on site apparently - but it'd still be a case of getting it to whatever machinery they have. The timber:

Thanks, good point on the dollies. I'm not sure yet about access.

Which way does it need cutting? Down the length (ripping) or across its width (cross cut)? For cross cut set to with a sharp hand saw. For ripping you will probably need to find a timber merchant/sawmill with a large bandsaw & you still have to get it there.

These days even the 9 quid saws (2 for 12 quid)

Depends on the type of wood. A good variety e.g. mahogany will be worth a fortune. Putting it on eBay for someone to collect, may be worth a try.

Offer it on facebook? Buyer to remove ...

you have the volume. Look up oak density and come up with a closer estimate ! :-)

I'd use a chainsaw, because I have one. But whatever you use it will take a very long time. Especially if it is *old* oak.

If you can afford it, hire the best tool. Every time I have bitten the bullet and hired the best tool for the job, I have been surprised at how much faster for how little outlay the job got done.

I bought a 90x90x2000mm piece of teak on FB to use as a post for a garden electrical outlet, it used to be part of a stile. I think I paid £15 for it.

I'd guess those are more likely to be in the ballpark of £30-50 each. If not as posts then for slicing up into planks. Would be a waste to chop it up.

Theo

No. they do not.

I have many such saws that really I should throw away.

Good po8nt, If it *is* oak its very valuable

Those look very much like railway sleepers although your dimensions are slightly different. They are very much in vogue for garden retaining walls and I am sure if you advertise them as such someone will gladly relieve you of them.

So .25m3, would be 250kg if green oak but much less if at all dry, 200kg seems reasonable. Strap it to a sack barrow and two people should be able to drag it.

Except, surely that isn't oak! Himself says it looks like building quality softwood. Unless that picture is of different pieces of wood?

If it is railway sleeper, they were usually a decent grade pitch pine I think. Still sought after.

It is the top grade softwood.

In Brighton there is a charity that collects scarp wood and recycles it. There must be similar organisations elsewhere, and their website sort of implies that they are not alone.