what logs have you been chopping today!

[scbk]

Nice and fresh silver birch and spruce

[Conor Wright]

A sizable pile of ash ringed up and split for a customer last month. A long day cutting and four days splitting.. some of the butts had to be quartered to make it comfortable to lift. I was a tired boy by the end of it!

[rowan lee]

My back is sore just looking at that heap, whats the proarc splitter like?

[rowan lee]

Laurel bashing, second cycle coppice (15yr) in an autumn woodland. Skinny lengths for fire starters.

 

Edited November 15, 2019 by rowan lee

[Stere]

 

Never thought of laurel as a  coppice firewood crop.

Edited November 15, 2019 by Stere

[openspaceman]

45 minutes ago, Stere said:

 

Never thought of laurel as a  coppice firewood crop.

Sweet bay is fast growing and coppices well in the south, may not be hardy above Watford

[Stere]

See suff in pic it up here on shooting estates in N Wales

 

Think its a cherry laurel different looking leaves to bay?

[Conor Wright]

1 hour ago, rowan lee said:

My back is sore just looking at that heap, whats the proarc splitter like?

Not as sore as mine was after doing it! (Lies really, it was my wrist, from turning the logs to split them) 

I have that splitter since 2012, it's a little weaker now than when it was new but has a lot of work done. There are faster machines out there but it's a good all rounder, can be pushed around the yard, if it goes on hire the customer can tow it away, 7 ltrs of fuel will do a 10 hour day easily. It has never failed to split any log, although there have been some that needed a bit of jiggling to get them to burst! I wouldn't hesitate to recommend one. Built locally and Niall provides good backup with no bullshit.

[Peasgood]

1 hour ago, openspaceman said:

Sweet bay is fast growing and coppices well in the south, may not be hardy above Watford

I have one that the frost killed off a few years back, it was -15 though!

It grew back from suckers and is as big as ever again. Normal winters might scorch a few of the young shoots off but I’d say it was hardy enough to grow up here. Well North of Watford. 

I had a well known Kent grower telling me it would be impossible to grow Cox apples this far north and they’d never survive. I’ve got acres of them and have had for 50 years or more. It’s not quite the frozen wasteland it’s made out to be.

[rowan lee]

The first 2 shots are from summer 19, consisting of birch/rowan lenghts dragged to ride side for later collection. In shot 3, I'm back on location (winter 20) ringing up and hauling out to processing area in open ended crates, and then splitting and drying. Also included are the nice lake side views beside my processing area.