best way of removing tree and stumps

[openspaceman]

18 minutes ago, daltontrees said:

Sorry to be a pain , but have you got the right legislation there? 1986 Act only allowed for restocking on conviction.

I'll have to check.

 

I know the amounts that could be felled without a licence changed, before I started work, with the 1967 act but I thought it was a later act that prevented conversion of forestry to agriculture.

 

The reason I remember is that I worked with a couple of chaps with a Cat 951 that  cleared such land and I would have the wood, for selling as pulp. The Cat would push them over and I would knot them out and cut off the root. That came to an end because of the change in the law.

 

I was nearly killed on one job, creating a pony paddock beside a manor house for new owners, the agricultural land all having been sold off to a neighbouring farm, I was working too close behind the cat snedding a birch when the back edge of the power fork caught another birch as he reversed and turned, the top landed on me

[openspaceman]

1 hour ago, openspaceman said:

I'll have to check.

 

I know the amounts that could be felled without a licence changed, before I started work, with the 1967 act but I thought it was a later act that prevented conversion of forestry to agriculture.

 

The reason I remember is that I worked with a couple of chaps with a Cat 951 that  cleared such land and I would have the wood, for selling as pulp. The Cat would push them over and I would knot them out and cut off the root. That came to an end because of the change in the law.

 

I was nearly killed on one job, creating a pony paddock beside a manor house for new owners, the agricultural land all having been sold off to a neighbouring farm, I was working too close behind the cat snedding a birch when the back edge of the power fork caught another birch as he reversed and turned, the top landed on me

Best I could find:

 

https://hansard.parliament.uk/‌Commons/1985-06-17/debates/908b9d70-4768-490f-9230-c34828b551ad/ForestryCommission

 

Last paragraph.

 

The dates fit my recollection. 

 

It looks like the 1967 Act  applies and it was a change in the criteria the FC would grant a licence that meant it was not possible to convert the land.