forestry work?

[Log-ologist]

...eight fills a day of your 254XP and such.

 

 

 

only 8 fills you softy.

 

In my day it was a gallon of fuel on a small saw and more when using a big saw to fell and a small one to trim out.

 

When you have cut your first 120 ft fir you remember it, but when you have done 5 acres you really firkin know it and when you have done 1000's of tonnes your body will not let you forget it.

[Charlieh]

In a lot of cases, you have to pay the landowner, and then try and make a living from what you cut.

 

The conservation type work is very satisfying, but if the work is funded - especially by a local authority - you never know where you are from one year to the next. I expect a downturn in a lot of funded conservation work over the next few years, as local authorities cut as much expenditure as they can to sort out the equal pay stuff.

 

i agree with the first paragraph about the coppice, and also with no knowing where the funding is coming from but its more like one month to the next

 

but its interesting that we differ in how we see the future, LA's will cut funding internally and with their funding for projects yes but there is getting more project based funding available if you know where to look for it, i am currently trying to advise three land owners where to direct efforts for specific projects and their is a good chance they will get it

[Quickthorn]

 

but its interesting that we differ in how we see the future, LA's will cut funding internally and with their funding for projects yes but there is getting more project based funding available if you know where to look for it, i am currently trying to advise three land owners where to direct efforts for specific projects and their is a good chance they will get it

 

I suppose it's down to different experiences. I did well in one county, as a contractor doing work for LAs and others spending funding money, until a few years ago. Work I thought I would be doing, dried up to shore up another department's financial crisis. Even many of the people who administered handing all the money out came close to losing their jobs, I heard. Where I live now, certainly for hedgelaying, this county funds landowner training, but will not pay for a contractor.

[Charlieh]

hedge laying round here is funded mostly through stewardship (CSS), which is now gone but natural england is about to make it a load easier to get into HLS so hopefully the work will start to pick up again, also there is quite a bit of relict coppice round here that i plan to try to get back into production (some of still has some very good stools left)

 

but funding is very up and down (think it will get worse the closer we get to the olympics as well!)

[Vertical Lmit]

Money in trees ha ha ha ha ha ha

Actually there is but you have to learn how to make it.

Cut it convert it see it to those who think anything that comes from the forest is simply gorgeous darling.

[Charlieh]

sell it to those who think anything that comes from the forest is simply gorgeous darling.

 

can tell from that comment that you live within commuter range of london :wave:

 

not rural farming derbyshire