Late Christmas present

[Mike Dempsey]

Ive just been given a late pressie in the form of 10 oaks, 1 beech, 1 ash and a pile of other trees that came down in yesterdays storm. All of them are really big and the branches will keep me and my 2 mates going in firewood for probably 5 years!

Most of the oak are at least 3' in dia and are about 50' long. Going to be hard work and take a few months but I'm not complaining

 

Mike

[skyhuck]

Who ever you clearing them for probably think its a gift for them too, getting them shifted for nothing.

[agg221]

Who ever you clearing them for probably think its a gift for them too, getting them shifted for nothing.

 

I agree, in a good way. I always think these things work best when everyone is getting what they really want, and walks away happy.

 

Alec

[Mike Dempsey]

Its a building developer who owns the land. The large house which sits in the grounds wont be ready for seling for at least 7 or more years. The trees cant be seen from the house and I suppose we are doing him a favour. The trees came down like a pile of dominos so its not as straight forward as we would like it to be but as they are free. It might be worth getting some heavy gear in to take some of the logs out and to a woodmizer but as I dont have any experience of that kind of operation I have to wait and get some advice.

Meanwhile I have a 4' dia oak with a trunk length of 60' to plank which came down 6 months ago to plank first. this oak took out 6 large sycamore as it came down. one of them will be planked and the others are already firewood.

Normally we plank in January and February because my other business interests are a bit quiet but this year I am already flat out and I am struggling to find the time. It will be better when the lighter nights come in and we can cut for longer. Its a lovely problem to have though!

 

Mike