Oak fire wood for sale

[andy26]

Commercial forestry doesn't stop for the bird nesting season.

 

Clearfell isn't generally carried out, but thinning continues as normal.

 

There's a harvester working behind my house in an FC woodland at the moment.

[Johny Walker]

How come you are cutting a minimum of 400 tonnes of oak in the middle of the bird nesting season?

 

you may find its going on all over the country

[andy26]

Very true,but I'm sure it will be on the fire this winter.I'm looking for good buyers if poss anyone no any good reliable firewood buyers I can contact.

 

Put it on WoodLots, you should shift that quickly with Cash on Collection at the least.

[Chris Sheppard]

How come you are cutting a minimum of 400 tonnes of oak in the middle of the bird nesting season?

 

Chances are there's a gamekeeper stopping them from felling the rest of the year

 

And yes, I'd agree, @£40 a tonne they should be queing up for it

[Chalky]

By the looks of things you have a tree firm,are you telling me you don't fell any trees for 4 months of the year.

[Alycidon]

Chances are there's a gamekeeper stopping them from felling the rest of the year

 

Gamekeepers have very little say usually in the running of an estate.

Pheasants and partridges are ground nesting birds and usally nest in long grass etc under hedges in a terratory claimed by a cock. Disturbance in rearing pens from July to Oct is a no no agreed. Otherwise birds soon get used to forestry work. Another hat I wear is running a local driven game shoot !!.

 

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[andy26]

Chances are there's a gamekeeper stopping them from felling the rest of the year

 

Gamekeepers have very little say usually in the running of an estate.

 

 

Beg to differ.

 

On big estates with a commercial shoot Forestry work from Aug-Feb is a no go (from my local experience).

 

Of course where shooting is not an interest of the estate owner, then sporting tenants will probably have little if any say.

[Alycidon]

Commercial shoot then yes you may well be right, those boys can shoot 200-400 a day, 3 or 4 days a week at £35 a bird + VAT.

 

I was thinking of a private shoot or maybe a syndicate.

 

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[john burgess]

Commercial shoot then yes you may well be right, those boys can shoot 200-400 a day, 3 or 4 days a week at £35 a bird + VAT.

 

I was thinking of a private shoot or maybe a syndicate.

 

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where I shoot and beat the day costs £12,000 for eight guns

[Chris Sheppard]

Gamekeepers have very little say usually in the running of an estate.

Pheasants and partridges are ground nesting birds and usally nest in long grass etc under hedges in a terratory claimed by a cock. Disturbance in rearing pens from July to Oct is a no no agreed. Otherwise birds soon get used to forestry work. Another hat I wear is running a local driven game shoot !!.

 

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My comment was a little tounge in cheek following from the "working with gamekeepers" thread, but in reality, a lot of woodland that is managed for shooting you'll not get to work in between June and Feb (most of the time the rearing pens are fairly well rammed in so you'll always be working near one), hence my reply regardign the bird nesting.