Overgrown Xmas trees

[magnum310]

Hi

I've got about an acre plot of Xmas trees that after years of neglect I am trying to get rid of to start afresh. I have removed most of the smaller trees, but still have 500ish trees that are anything up to about 35ft tall. Just wondering if anyone knows if there would be any uses for them before I set about chopping and burning? I'm overrun with logs so don't really need any firewood. Any thoughts appreciated!

 

Ta

[Mick Stockbridge]

Make an eco pile. We had a Little Owl nesting in ours one year.

[treesnatcher]

fell during first 2 weeks of december and advertise oversize large lets say 8ft to 25ft trees for sale. you will be surprised how much demand there is at these sizes and astonished at the cost of purchasing trees this size for xmas. We then fell and cut them to the size required.

[Goaty]

Take tops out all of them for christmas trees. Then chip or log rest. Unless you can get a buyer for logs in length for raised beds etc.

[Paul Jenks]

Might get a few tonnes of pulp. Get a local trainer in to run a felling and snedding course and get them to cut and stack roadside

[detritus21]

Oversize trees at christmas are in big demand. My mate who sells around 2000 trees at christmas struggled to get anything over 8 feet. The bigger ones he did get he had to fell and extract himself. Seriously worth thinking of selling at christmas

[magnum310]

Cheers guys, unfortunately they were planted too close together in the first place, so the bottom 10/20ft is just dead, and the tops look a bit too spindly to be selling, some good, arrow straight trunks up to 10in thick though!

[stuartyg]

hi how close is to close together, i have been thinking about planting an acre of rough ground on farm, long term but ground sitting doing nothing,did you grow from seeds or buy in, cheers stuart

[csservices]

Cheers guys, unfortunately they were planted too close together in the first place, so the bottom 10/20ft is just dead, and the tops look a bit too spindly to be selling, some good, arrow straight trunks up to 10in thick though!

 

I've got some the same, planted a second lot inbetween the first pplanting with the intention that the original planting would be cut and away for xmas trees a year or two later, as with the best laid plans life got in the way and now got a stand of trees so thick you cant walk through it, my plan is cut the bigger diameter trunks into lengths for hedgelaying stakes and the smaller stuff can go on the logpile

[RobRainford]

Depending on the quality they are saleable as display trees. Don't expect much though. If they are close grown and don't have much of a shape they won't be worth much more than chip or firewood.

[agg221]

What species are they, and how clean are the base lengths?

 

At 10" dia if they're close enough together to have self-cleaned and a useful species you may just about into the smaller end of sawmill sizes on the bottom lengths. 500 trees sounds a lot on an acre if they're a decent size but if there are a few artic loads it may just at least pay the cost of clearance. Worth talking to your local softwood mill if the above stacks up.

 

Alec