Advice sought re: Apple wood

[Lee Winger]

Pizza ovens!

[Mark Bolam]

Don't fell them.

 

Sell the apples next year.

[wills-mill]

dont chips for smoking have to be soaked somewhere along the line?

 

Got to dry the wood first so it doesn't mould and compost in the bag, then soak for an hour before cooking to stop the chip turning into a towering inferno. Did you ever see the 'Jack Daniels' branded chips in Tesco, allegedly made from their old oak barrels. I always reckoned it was joinery offcuts and a splosh of Tesco value whisky for flavour Not bad for 6 quid for half a cereal packet!

[Andy Collins]

Don't fell them.

 

Sell the apples next year.

 

Not an option, its a commercial orchard, which is now past its best productivity, so replacement is the only option.

[Stephen Blair]

Not an option, its a commercial orchard, which is now past its best productivity, so replacement is the only option.

 

would the cheapest way be, to mulch the lot into the ground. no money back but not much spent.

[Charlieh]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applewood_cheese

 

applewood smoked cheese, mmmmmm tasty, try contacting one of the manufacturers to see if they will take it as a job lot!

[Quickthorn]

There's a firewood supplier near Boston that sells bins of apple wood only. They may be interested if the haulage costs don't kill it. Let me know if you need the number.

[Log-ologist]

chipping for wood smokeries gets my vote for the best use.

 

http://www.foodsmoker.co.uk/consumables/index.htm#Wood_Chips

[mdvaden]

For some reason, I preferred small chunks of apple or cherry for my smoker.

 

If I was cutting it for smoking, I'd have the 6" diameter and smaller being cut into 2 to 4 cm thick discs, using a Makita carpentry saw.

 

Other - with no branches - could be run though a chipper that would make fine chips.

 

I'm thinking that the most valuable wood in many trees would be where the trunk branches outward to the scaffold limbs. Wouldn't that one piece, if wax-sealed on the cuts for slow drying, be useful for wood workers doing lathe work like bowls and stuff?

 

8" wood would make great firewood. But the premium longest straighter ones would probably make for valuable small woodcrafting lumber.

[Topcat]

If that guy on ebay can get £25 a net for his fancy Indian wood or what ever it was I'm sure you could get decent money for the logs in nets.

 

We have a few smaller garden centers where we take fancy bits,apple,cherry,laburnum etc. Stack the nets on a pallet in a corner £10 a bag and give them 30% for selling. You will be suprised how many people go to these places and leave their brains at home. Nice smelly wood exactly 10" log in a bag that the husband can carry (when instructed by the wife of course,it must be her idea) and use as a display in front of thier open fire, Which we all know is really gas