Free tree felling

[geoff]

I have offered to cut into hand manageable pieces & leave the wood behind for customers who think there tree has a value, very few will go for it, so why should I cut it down & transport it for nowt.

If they don't want the wood I will take it, but I'm not in the business of working for it, I work for money, no exceptions.

Once people start to do tree surgery in part or whole for the timber, the industry will become a mess.

[geoff]

then there are us who pay to be able to fell a tree and it called forestry

 

Forestry is farming, you are pulling in a crop, tree surgery is a different ball game, bit like asking a bloke who mows lawns to do it for nothing & keep the grass cuttings.

[Ty Korrigan]

In the free ad's on the Brit forums you often see people offering their tree's to be felled for free or a share of the wood.

What they often get is very little wood, a whole mess of branches and stumps.

The land ends up looking like the '87 storm has passed all over again.

Ty

[gensetsteve]

Forestry is farming, you are pulling in a crop, tree surgery is a different ball game, bit like asking a bloke who mows lawns to do it for nothing & keep the grass cuttings.

 

That is a good way of putting it. Also forests tend to grow straight with fewer branches and therefore less knots. They tend to be sought after timber like Beech and ash. Rather than arb waste which is often Willow more willow and some syc.