Average cutting and extraction rates.

[Stere]

With regards to any coppices material  if its hazel may have some added value over firewood but only if its being kept in rotation otherwise im guessing might be hard to cover costs of the initial restoring -  if its a  neglected coppice from the first cut....?

 

More value  in  any standards but any  coppice craft products will only be decent quality with less than  about 20% canaopy cover and after its has being restocked to density if over shaded so a long term project.....

 

 

 

 

 

[spuddog0507]

All the older tractors and machinery where very over engineered and as the saying goes built to last,, bloke in yard next to us has 5 fast tracks and there is a JCB van there nearly every wk ?? But it's the same with anything mechanical all the damage can be done in the first 2 or 3 years from new if that machine is not looked after correctly, buying a machine from a big company ? Or buying a may be older machine from a one man band owner operator , for me it would be the later as I feel it would of been far better looked after, 

Diggers are a good machine in forestry but are only as good as the operator sat on it, we use a 2,7 tonne digger and it has its place where its worth its weight in gold as some jobs it makes such light work of things ,, only issue is rubber tracks and stumps as you just need to watch what your doing and keep off em or you will spend half a day putting tracks back on ,,