Felling licence??

[daltontrees]

I have staggered big jobs over the end of one quarter and the start of the next.

 

I've always found this curious. You could in theory start a job on Tuesday the 30th September by felling 5 cube and on Wednesday 1st October you could fell another 5 cube. Then take as long as you want to process it on the ground.

 

Oh well, them's the rules.

[woodyguy]

It's perfectly designed to help us small wood owners get on with management but without bureaucracy whilst meaning that large wood owners, however many parcels they own, have to do the paper work. Seems one of the more enlightened bits of legislation to me!!

[Stubby]

I did hear a story a while back were FC did a huge clear fell without submitting any paper work ( to themselves ) ( a sorta RH/LH thing ) They had to retro do it but someone high up got a bollocking ....

[Lucan]

You do not need a licence:

 

to fell less than 5 cubic metres in a calendar quarter (Please note that you cannot sell more than 2 cubic metres in a calendar quarter)

 

Could someone just clarify this.

 

Say for example you want to thin a small woodland over a year. Every calender quarter you fell 3 cube of larch and 2 of ash. At the end of the year you decide to keep the 12 cube of larch for yourself and sell the 8 of ash. Can you sell the all 8 in one go or are you limited to selling at a quota of 2 per quarter?

 

Cheers

[daltontrees]

Could someone just clarify this.

 

Say for example you want to thin a small woodland over a year. Every calender quarter you fell 3 cube of larch and 2 of ash. At the end of the year you decide to keep the 12 cube of larch for yourself and sell the 8 of ash. Can you sell the all 8 in one go or are you limited to selling at a quota of 2 per quarter?

 

Cheers

 

The quota is on felling, not on selling. It's a hard one to get the head round, but you could only be prosecuted if you sold more than 2m3 of the wood you felled in any quarter. If you keep a record of the felling dates and make sure the 5m3 a quarter is not exceeded, you are free to sell 2/5ths of the wood any time you want, in any batch size you want, even all at once. What you couldn't do is sell another 2/5ths the next period. This seems ridiculous in a way, because you would be allowed instead to cut down another 2m3 and sell that.

 

In summary, it's when you fell, not when you sell, that counts for the exemption.

[Lucan]

The quota is on felling, not on selling. It's a hard one to get the head round, but you could only be prosecuted if you sold more than 2m3 of the wood you felled in any quarter. If you keep a record of the felling dates and make sure the 5m3 a quarter is not exceeded, you are free to sell 2/5ths of the wood any time you want, in any batch size you want, even all at once. What you couldn't do is sell another 2/5ths the next period. This seems ridiculous in a way, because you would be allowed instead to cut down another 2m3 and sell that.

 

In summary, it's when you fell, not when you sell, that counts for the exemption.

 

Cheers that's what I thought, just reading the last part made me doubt myself

[daltontrees]

I read the bit of the Act 3 times before I could figure out what it really meant. Was beginning to doubt myself too.