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  • 5 months later...

A quick update after an interesting development with the hybrid willow. To recap, we have a trial plot of hybrid willow to see if we can grow nice sized firewood logs on established stools rather than harvest them for biomass woodchip or wood chunks. A few stools are 'failing' with nothing more than the weight of the branches.

 

On a brighter note, the pollarded ash is doing well. The picture is 1.5 years of regrowth on the trees pictured on page 1 with the hens.

 

A bit of a write up can be found on http://www.rustical.co.uk/woodstuff/growing-firewood-2017-update/

 

 

 

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Willow does seem to be prone to snapping as you've shown. I was trying to convert some untidy shrubs into higher pollards by promoting a single stem but they all fell down and have returned to being untidy shrubs.

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I agree but I will leave it to see if it is a continuing problem. At the moment it seems to be confined to stools on the periphery but, as they are falling into wind, I think it is more to do with weight than weather. In any case the Euc is outperforming the hybrid willow in terms of speed of growth but it remains to be seen how it coppices.

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