Roundwood framing and green wood?

[Bealers]

We've got a small Japanese Larch plantation in Powys that was purchased by us to provide us with materials for a roundwood framed house that we're hoping to build over the border in Shropshire, planning permitting

 

The FC have said they won't give us a licence to thin before May now so they can check we're not diseased. I put a separate thread on here about that.

 

Anyway, I'm concerned that us leaving the felling until the sap is up will leave us with a crop of sub-standard construction poles but this is just my unqualified opinion, am I right?

 

If we did go-ahead and fell, but hold off frame construction into 2013 would this given the poles sufficient time to season or would we be best off waiting until winter 2012 and felling then; using them semi-green in spring 2013 ?

 

Third option is to just buy the poles in when we need them but this plantation in unthinned so they are all lovely and straight and it would be a bit galling given we've a load if it stood there gagging to be used.

[delabodge]

We've got a small Japanese Larch plantation in Powys that was purchased by us to provide us with materials for a roundwood framed house that we're hoping to build over the border in Shropshire, planning permitting

 

The FC have said they won't give us a licence to thin before May now so they can check we're not diseased. I put a separate thread on here about that.

 

Anyway, I'm concerned that us leaving the felling until the sap is up will leave us with a crop of sub-standard construction poles but this is just my unqualified opinion, am I right?

 

If we did go-ahead and fell, but hold off frame construction into 2013 would this given the poles sufficient time to season or would we be best off waiting until winter 2012 and felling then; using them semi-green in spring 2013 ?

 

Third option is to just buy the poles in when we need them but this plantation in unthinned so they are all lovely and straight and it would be a bit galling given we've a load if it stood there gagging to be used.

 

mate google ben law,,hes the guru on round wood framing,,he`ll give you the answer you need,,,

[Paul Smith]

Speak to this man, he's near you and very very good! Took him climbing with his brother in law before softhawksbanks went to Japan!

 

http://www.woodhousewood.org/english/index.htm

[Bealers]

mate google ben law,,hes the guru on round wood framing,,he`ll give you the answer you need,,,

 

I did a week at Ben's place a year or so back, learning the main joints, in fact I bought the wood on his general recommendation that unthinned, slow grown Larch was a perfect building material. I've emailed him a few times since but the conversation petered out. I can't find a number anywhere, I got the impression his time was rather over-subscribed!

 

Speak to this man, he's near you and very very good! Took him climbing with his brother in law before softhawksbanks went to Japan!

 

Woodhouse Wood

 

Thanks, looks interesting.

 

I've got in touch with a couple in Cornwall doing the type of build as we want so I might go and bug them.

[delabodge]

I did a week at Ben's place a year or so back, learning the main joints, in fact I bought the wood on his general recommendation that unthinned, slow grown Larch was a perfect building material. I've emailed him a few times since but the conversation petered out. I can't find a number anywhere, I got the impression his time was rather over-subscribed!

 

 

 

Thanks, looks interesting.

 

I've got in touch with a couple in Cornwall doing the type of build as we want so I might go and bug them.

 

be sure to post some pics mate of your progress,,

[Beardie]

Also look up Tony Wrench, as he uses roundwood, but to a totally different design.

My thoughts on felling when the sap is up is that it will make it very much easier to de-bark the poles, as any squirrel would tell you.

[twmarriott]

Also look up Tony Wrench, as he uses roundwood, but to a totally different design.

My thoughts on felling when the sap is up is that it will make it very much easier to de-bark the poles, as any squirrel would tell you.

 

it does, but on the down side gives the fungus nice sugar in the sap to digest, i think the poles will last better if felled when the sap's down, or maybe ring bark the tree and fell once dead?

[Justme]

Can you not get them to let you fell but keep to all the rules that would apply if they were diseased? Then when given the all clear your good to go.

[wrekin woodsman]

cant you fell and leave itin the wood peel on site isnt the desease only to do with the bark cambium not de barked wood? cant you fell up to 5 cube without a licence for own use.also spring felled then left in full not de limbed is dew falling seasons the wood scandinavian teqcnique