Sticky firewood properties?

[THE88MAN]

Does anyone know how much timber per annum you could reasonably expect from a coppice on a per acre / hectare basis?

 

really depends on the age,state,species and prior management/neglect.i'm currently coppicing every winter in 10 acres of ash which aint been touched for donkeys and getting about 30 ton per acre still leaving some good standards and a decent canopy.on the alder thing i seem to recall it was used for something to do with rivers,moorings etc because apparently it doesn't rot in water,can anyone else elaborate?

[David oakman]

on the alder thing i think i read somewhere venice is built on alder i will try and look it up.

[Quickthorn]

Does anyone know how much timber per annum you could reasonably expect from a coppice on a per acre / hectare basis?

 

really depends on the age,state,species and prior management/neglect.i'm currently coppicing every winter in 10 acres of ash which aint been touched for donkeys and getting about 30 ton per acre still leaving some good standards and a decent canopy.on the alder thing i seem to recall it was used for something to do with rivers,moorings etc because apparently it doesn't rot in water,can anyone else elaborate?

 

Hardwoods normally have a yield class of around 4-6. If you stretched this to a coppice situation, you can expect an increase of 4-6 cu. m per year per hectare, so a sustainable production would also be 4-6 cu. m per hectare per year. Your 10 acres (about 4 ha or so) of ash is probably growing at a rate of around 16-24 cu. m per year. Ash is pretty light, at about 860 kg/cu. m green, so you'd expect 14-21 tons/year to be a sustainable yield.

 

We coppiced an area (leaving the biggest as standards) last season that was supposed to be 1 ha. It had probably been coppiced about 15-20 years ago. We reckoned the resulting stack was 70-100 cu. m (I'd go for the smaller figure, because it wasn't all straight)

[firewoodman]

i heard alder nwil not rot in water if compleatly submerged, same as elm

[Rentachimp]

Will this be stickied, then?

[Log-ologist]

i heard alder nwil not rot in water if compleatly submerged, same as elm

 

I cut hundreds of alder piles for underwater work on rivers in the late 80's

[firewoodman]

are they still there??