dealing with green waste from windblown connifers?

[Gary Prentice]

Try sticking a note up at the front gate, free firewood and a phone number. We've cleared a few sites like that.

[bobh]

Is firewood really so cheap on the isle of Wight that no one would pick this up for free?

[Stubby]

When we dont want something we cut and stack to manageable lengths neatly at road side . Over night the timber fairys have had it away most times ....

[openspaceman]

One guy the customer had round to price told her 30ton of wood. If he is near the mark and I take maybe 10 15 ton away as the branches, what I'm asking is roughly how many 12 yard skips for the big stuff (2 connifers at approx 60ft each)?

 

You really need to girth them at the mid length.

Say they're 50cm at breast height and 20 metres high they would tariff at 20-25 and be about 1.5 m3 each in the stem, cannot guess what the ratio of lop and top is to stem wood on an open grown conifer but the whole trees probably weigh less than 6 tonne.

[SamWhiting12]

Oppps wrong Isle hahaha

[dig-dug-dan]

Hire a chipper and you would get most of it into a skip. Then offer the logs on freecycle

[redmoosefaction]

Jet wash the mud off the stumps, then grind the remainder 8-)

[tree-fancier123]

thanks, excellent suggestion with the jet wash for the stumps

is it doable with a chainsaw if I get them clean enough? I know it would mean loads of chains. Not sure on the hire cost of a decent stump grinder, bit near a house so l guess would be worth covering the windows with ply!

 

interesting estimate of 6 tonne for the tree

[Peasgood]

The parts of the tree usable for firewood will be an awful lot closer to 3 ton than 30 ton, and that's if you take every last bit of it.

[woody paul]

Burn the lot job done.