Standing Poplar available around Winchester anyone interested?

[Mattsnaturalrivers]

Been looking at one of our fisheries recently and we have 10+ large Poplars that the land owner would be keen to see gone, however they would in an ideal world like to see them removed and them recompensed for the timber. Would anyone be interested? Access is reasonable but may involve going offroad to get to the trees do-able in a 4 by 4.

 

Cheers

 

Matt

[eggsarascal]

Been looking at one of our fisheries recently and we have 10+ large Poplars that the land owner would be keen to see gone, however they would in an ideal world like to see them removed and them recompensed for the timber. Would anyone be interested? Access is reasonable but may involve going offroad to get to the trees do-able in a 4 by 4.

 

Cheers

 

Matt

 

Can't see there being many takers on this one:laugh1:

[Joy Yeomans]

so you want someone to come out with all their kit and insurance and employee costs and fuel costs etc and fell and cut up these loveley poplars and then pay for the value of the wood

 

so what value do you think is in these poplars = less than zero

cost of work = more than zero

ergo no go = dont think youll have any takers

 

sorry dont mean to sound flippant but we get this all the time and its very frustrating

 

joy

[Sam Thompson]

so you want someone to come out with all their kit and insurance and employee costs and fuel costs etc and fell and cut up these loveley poplars and then pay for the value of the wood

 

so what value do you think is in these poplars = less than zero

cost of work = more than zero

ergo no go = dont think youll have any takers

 

sorry dont mean to sound flippant but we get this all the time and its very frustrating

 

joy

 

 

"Bazinga".

[Flyguy]

Been looking at one of our fisheries recently and we have 10+ large Poplars that the land owner would be keen to see gone, however they would in an ideal world like to see them removed and them recompensed for the timber. Would anyone be interested? Access is reasonable but may involve going offroad to get to the trees do-able in a 4 by 4.

 

Cheers

 

Matt

 

I must say, I find this kind of attitude verges on the insulting.

 

The land owner expects a professional who has to make their living from the difficult, physical and sometimes dangerous job that is tree surgery to work for nothing and then pay them for the value of the timber !

 

Would they expect an abdominal surgeon to operate for free to remove an appendix and then reinburse the patient for the value of the sausage skins they have taken out ?

 

I would suggest you tell your land owner that its time the wealthy land owning classes have the decency to pay a fair price for a fair job and stop trying to screw the rest of society just because they can.

 

Grrrr....

[Gnarlyoak]

Ha ha ha ha ha, thats a good one!

 

If its cut, prepared and stacked neatly at roadside ready for pickup, the landowner might get something for the timber, but it wo'nt be a lot, pop's not much use for out, even firewood!

 

Of course if he expects a professional to come out and cut it all down for him, working on the banks of a river, across a soggy field, chip and clear all the brash, process and transport all the timber with all the necessary staff and equipment required to make such a task safe and possible, and then actually pay him for the privilege. Then he's an idiot.

 

Would he ask a builder to come and build him an extension in return for the topsoil he excavated out for the foundations?

Edited October 11, 2011 by Gnarlyoak

[NI Tree]

:001_tt2:come now, its called a standing timber sale

[Mattsnaturalrivers]

Thanks for responses, I understand where your coming from am just putting it out there, not all land owners are wealthy some are land rich but money poor. The trees aren't on the river bank but in the meadows surrounding and the brash wouldn't need to be chipped that would be taken care of once the trunk was processed / possibly having the keepers on site to help remove brash. In terms of felling and processing it would be reasonably straight forward with no major obstacles around, we could potentially do it ourself but its the time taken that could be better spent on other work and we wouldn't have any use for the materials. Looks like they may well be left standing for a while yet then.

[chainsawdom]

Thanks for responses, I understand where your coming from am just putting it out there, not all land owners are wealthy some are land rich but money poor. The trees aren't on the river bank but in the meadows surrounding and the brash wouldn't need to be chipped that would be taken care of once the trunk was processed / possibly having the keepers on site to help remove brash. In terms of felling and processing it would be reasonably straight forward with no major obstacles around, we could potentially do it ourself but its the time taken that could be better spent on other work and we wouldn't have any use for the materials. Looks like they may well be left standing for a while yet then.

 

i guess they could

[Head Ranger Pete]

Just by way of illustration of the problem we had two poplars done earlier in the year - they were easily accesssible, with perfect vehicle access and in excess of 5ft girth, and we still had to pay £700 (2 climbers for 2 days - our staff doing the ground work).

 

I asked the contractor if he wanted some of the wood - free , gratis, for nada , on top of the payment - and he said basically "WTF for ?" ( We've got it drying under tarps round the back of the office - i'm hoping it will season enough to burn in a log burner before it rots)

 

So ergo if you cant even give it away when its felled and logged , no one in their right mind is going to buy it standing