Windfall trees

[Rough Hewn]

You want that firewood?
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[Rough Hewn]

The reason I say this, is because I tried something similar when I first started.
Absolute nightmare.
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[Stephen Blair]

Firewood is usually the starting point when you get interested in chainsaw work.  Most farmers and land owners will let you come and tidy up there stuff, take it away and pay them with a bottle or some cut wood, then it’s exciting getting a tractor to play in etc etc. 
  Fast forward a year of back breaking work for very little profit, the excitement of playing weekend chainsaw warrior is over and in that time you usually get asked to cut a tree down in a back garden where someone happily hands you a couple of hundred quid, it was easy and very little strain compared to firewood in a wet field.

  Fast forward a year and you will have a van and chipper and look for places to give firewood away just to get onto the next job. IMO.

[oldwoodcutter]

Someone asked , windfall are trees or branches that have fallen to the forest floor.
Windblown are a completely different kettle of fish, those trees that have blown over and are hanging up on others, silently waiting to kill you, at best.

[Gary Prentice]

20 hours ago, TIMON said:

Only if God loves them......

@Stubby always leaves the brash, cos (according to him) God hates him anyway.

[Gary Prentice]

11 minutes ago, oldwoodcutter said:

those trees that have blown over and are hanging up on others, silently waiting to kill you, at best.

Thought they were widow-makers? 

[Dan Maynard]

Firewood is usually the starting point when you get interested in chainsaw work.  Most farmers and land owners will let you come and tidy up there stuff, take it away and pay them with a bottle or some cut wood, then it’s exciting getting a tractor to play in etc etc. 
  Fast forward a year of back breaking work for very little profit, the excitement of playing weekend chainsaw warrior is over and in that time you usually get asked to cut a tree down in a back garden where someone happily hands you a couple of hundred quid, it was easy and very little strain compared to firewood in a wet field.
  Fast forward a year and you will have a van and chipper and look for places to give firewood away just to get onto the next job. IMO.

Agree with this.

Fast forward another year and you look at the empty crates in your yard and wonder what you're going to do for firewood next season.

and then ...

Fast forward 20 years and you have a van with kitchen and toilet as you're fed up of peeing in compost heaps and behind sheds.

[devon TWiG]

I think less and less landowners would be willing to have fallen trees tidied up , most consider them to have  "enormous value"?   , others wish them to be left for wildlife ( good idea for brash ! ) and most would expect you to be insured , qualified etc etc to work on their land !   so often a non starter  ..... 

 

[ABtrees]

23 hours ago, Gary Prentice said:

Thought they were widow-makers? 

You mean something like this ?!!!

[Stubby]

2 minutes ago, ABtrees said:

You mean something like this ?!!!

No . More like a game of " pick a sticks " but with trees .