Catweazle
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Forgot to mention, if you have good quality sweet chestnut then Inwood Design are offering £50 per tonne roadside. Inwood chestnut log specification ( it says £45 on this website but £50 on Woodlots )
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Sweet Chestnut has loads of water in it, something like 125% of it's dry weight compared to just 30-40% for Ash. So, it needs a long spell drying out. I have some cut 3 years ago that is perfect but last years is also OK if it was split quickly ( very easy job, you can split a 5m long log into two with hand tools ). In some parts of France and Italy they burn little else. Once it's dry it burns well, hot but not very long lasting. It's surprising how light a piece of really dry sweet chestnut is. It was the charcoal of choice for blacksmiths years ago as the charcoal burns very hot and fast.
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I wanted confirmation really, I'm not a tree-pro, just an enthusiastic amateur.
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I currently have; No Entry - Forestry Operations and Pest Control In Progress . It seems to work except for one or two mountain bikers who seem to think that they own the place and that fences are just for show. I'm thinking of putting up building site signs designating the woods as a Hi-Viz and Hard-Hat area too.
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Brilliant, I used to love making bits for my boys, they always looked so proud as they trotted off to school. Shame they grow up.
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I have a medium hornbeam that has rotted down the middle, it's a very lopsided tree and it's overhanging a (private) path so I think it needs to come down. Do you agree ? Pics;
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Will the brace provide an opportunity for the kids to climb up and possibly injure themselves ? It's a sad situation when you have to think of every legal aspect and the law doesn't always work the way you expect. For example, I'm told that by putting no-trespassing signs up I prove that I am aware that people trespass, if one of these trespassers then bangs his head or something I can be liable for not providing a duty of care to the trespassers that I knew were there. Conversely, if I regard a path as dangerous and make improvements to it but a trespasser still trips on a pothole and injures himself I can be held liable for not keeping the path in safe condition, even though it's better than a slippery path and they have no right to be there anyway. Crazy.
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True, but installing these linings is not a one man job. A couple of guys could install linings and leave connection and draw / safety testing to the HETAS fella.
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But you'd say climbing up a big tree and dismantling it isn't hard - it would be for me.
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I see that some of you climbers are having a hard time and looking for another job, how about installing flexible chimney linings ? Woodburning stoves need a class 1 chimney liner, which will often mean removing the old gas fire lining and fitting a double skin flexible liner. There are so many new stoves being sold the manufacturers are struggling to keep up. You need to be able to work at height and be fairly strong. Ideal ? Just a thought.
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Advice needed re Chestnut Coppice
Catweazle replied to Catweazle's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Blimey, that's going to be cheap per ton then . The fella that visited reckoned on 100 tons per acre useable, inwood are advertising that they'll pay £50 a ton roadside and this guy said he'll pay the same. I'm seriously considering buying a 4x4 tractor and pulling out 3 acres myself, it'll pay for the tractor this year. -
I can't comment on the lowering device but I thought the video was great - a joy to watch
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Advice needed re Chestnut Coppice
Catweazle replied to Catweazle's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Most of the Standard trees came down in '87, as a result the chestnut is straight as lamposts so £500 an acre isn't really too much. Have you cut and extracted chestnut coppice before ? -
Advice needed re Chestnut Coppice
Catweazle replied to Catweazle's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Thanks fellas, As you can see, I'm not a pro, but recent events are making me look a bit more closely at maximising the money from the woods. I think maybe I'll get a professional in to cut an acre and watch closely. I know it won't make me an instant expert but I should pick up enough to muddle through, especially as time won't really be a problem for me. As Mr Ed says, a couple of tons a day will keep me going until I get up to speed. I might even split some on-site and sell the finished product. -
I'll be very grateful for some expert advice regarding my Sweet Chestnut coppice. I have a wood of nearly 18 acres, 16 acres is good quality Sweet Chestnut between 12 and 25 years old. It was planted to supply hop poles to the Kent fields maybe 200 years ago. I would like to cut up to 4 acres this year and have been told that there is good 100 tons per acre suitable for post and rail or selling to a couple of local companies at £50 per ton roadside. I have been offered £500 per acre standing, my first offer, but this seems low considering the potential £5000 per acre if I can cut it and get it to roadside. The recession has screwed my usual business so I might well have every other week off this year, is it worth my buying a tractor or quad and trying to cut and extract the wood myself ?
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I am Joe Public, so my post is from that point of view. I'd consider £200 a day a bargain, in fact I'd expect to pay £250. Don't climbers have liability and life insurance ? And don't tell me climbing trees with chainsaws isn't more dangerous than most jobs, I won't believe you.
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I'm surprised that Joe Public pays climbers so little. If I was hiring I'd consider £200 a day to be very reasonable considering the danger and insurance involved.
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I think you've answered your own question
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July/August photo competition sponsored by Arbinsure
Catweazle replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Past Competitions
This is a lopsided Oak that needs some work soon, I'm thinking of removing the outermost branch where it forks near the trunk. Unless, of course, one of you experts has a better idea Steve ( Amateur tree owner ) -
I got friendly with my local scrap man, he gets loads of old chain and, more useful, offcuts of lift cable. The lift cable is fairly flexible and has a SWL of 11-20 tons.
