Advice on buying small woodland

[Farmerdowling]

This may be out of date now but I'm also looking into buying woodland. How often do you need to visit it etc? Im looking at South East which is no problems to visit (my garden at home will suffer as I will be in the woods all the time) but we are planning on a move to Wales in the future so if I bought there I would have trouble getting there regularly for the first few years.

[AlexB]

Fd, I'd wait till you get to Wales, maybe volunteer somewhere to get some experience so you land running in Wales. A good all round book is woodland management by Chris Star. It's not too technical and it's easy reading.

[ballibeg]

Get an idea of prices here.

 

http://www.woodlands.co.uk/

 

Dave

[woodyguy]

I visit mine about once per week, occasionally fortnightly.

I'd be very wary of being hundreds of miles away, especially as much of the attractive and low price wood that comes up is in Wales. Go there and buy a wood!

[hedgesparrow]

re buying a wood. look for a wood which has hazel in even if its gone ott hazel you can do so much with. binders stakes for hedgelaying. hurdle making even if you rent it to a hurdle maker. spars,faggots, charcoal. all will earn you some return on your investment. if it has chestnut then you can make many things including clothes pegs. i would be wary of a one type tree woodland.

mine is 80% hazel with ash birch and oak but they are protected so can not touch unless they fall

but if its neglected like mine a lot of work to get it back to get the wood you need to make things.

[Farmerdowling]

I have just started on making walking sticks so I was thinking of having hazel mixed in also. Comparing prices today I can buy 2 acres in surrey for 20k or 8 acres in wales for 20k - a no brainier really but although we visit Wales twice a year now moving is still way off on the horizon!

[hedgesparrow]

depends if its a hazel wood thats past its best at present if it needs clearing will take 7 years to be fit to use for a lot of things. as for making stuff chap was making whistles out of hazel and selling for 50p. going like hot cakes.

[Coed y Cardi]

I visit mine about once per week, occasionally fortnightly.

I'd be very wary of being hundreds of miles away, especially as much of the attractive and low price wood that comes up is in Wales. Go there and buy a wood!

 

Leave some woodland for the people who actually live and work in Wales, I think there is now a clause that you have to speak welsh before they let you buy woodland in Wales !!! Twll tyn pob sais!

[Farmerdowling]

Bore da is as good as I get at the moment but the wife still knows more as she grew up in Newcastle Emlyn - does this make me eligible?

[Coed y Cardi]

That's not too bad then, already got one neighbour/mate from Croydon and he's on arb talk too!