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  1. Big J
    I just bought a Stiga mulching mower (dedicated, so no option to collect and front drive too) and it's excellent. I've always hated picking up grass clippings, so a mulcher is perfect for me. Just over £300 including VAT and well worth it.
  2. Big J
    Finally finished extracting the site near Honiton. Between 815 and 845t extracted. I'll know exactly once the timber is lifted.
  3. Big J
    It takes a 500mm log, so a bit bigger than that.
  4. Big J
    Very good Murray! Look forward to seeing more footage
  5. Big J
    500t plus is a lot of coffins!
  6. Big J
    Not huge. Pallet wood mostly. Low-grade chocks and bearers for haulage and packaging.
  7. Big J
    Clearfell, extract, sell for milling and replant with a mixture of douglas and WRC once the site has been improved with drainage. Another week or two and the leaves should be out and I'll take more photos. Thanks for the input chaps
  8. Big J
    For an average of 50ft on each one.
  9. Big J
    The trees are truly huge. Some of them nudge 10 tonnes. There had been a plan to try to retain the native hardwoods amongst them, but they are almost all ash so that plan has been abandoned! ?
  10. Big J
    I went to see a stand of oversized poplar with a view to clear fell. Not helped by the fact that all the trees look subtly different in the south west (when compared to Scotland), I couldn't figure out which sub species of poplar I was looking at. Brief visual description: very tall trees with superb form, usually exhibiting 40-60ft of completely clean stem, then a rounded crown, topping out at 110-120ft. Some size variation, with the trees a bit smaller on wetter ground. Hopefully the photos describe the rest.
  11. Big J
    Very good post
  12. Big J
    He's a midget my brother, a mere 6ft 2". A lifelong gym goer, he's built like a tank though! ?
  13. Big J
    Heresy!
  14. Big J
    Carbon neutrality is practically impossible, and I don't aspire to it. Nevertheless, it's imperative that we all make an effort. I have heavy machinery, I used diesel and consumables, but I feel that my profession is more carbon neutral than most. What you call freedom, most would classify as willful ignorance.
  15. Big J
    I do not, no. All trees felled in a forestry setting are subject to felling licences approved by the Forestry Commission. All felling ops that I do are either thinning or clearfell. If thinning, replacement is not required as you're felling to favour the better trees, improve the crop and increase the volume of standing trees on site (crowded trees don't grow well). If clearfelling, replanting is almost always required. We have two large clearfells later this year, both of which will be replanted with more trees than are felled.
  16. Big J
    Part of a sustainable, carbon-neutral industry supporting thousands of local jobs. If you want locally sourced firewood, biofuel, timber for planking, construction and fencing, there has to be local forestry. And as part of that process, someone needs thin and harvest the trees at the appropriate stages. But I suspect you already know that and are playing devil's advocate in order to get a rise out of me ?
  17. Big J
    You are of course wrong. Much like the weather forecast, it's much easier to predict what will happen. The exact timescale is trickier to pin down. The effects of climate change are self-evident and abundantly obvious. To deny it puts you on a level with flat earthers.
  18. Big J
    I agree, but think that 3 tonnes is within the realms of possibility for most people. Hardly worth a firewood processor contractor going out to as well. Our logs are 50cm, so not huge. I'll keep quiet now though, as I'm not exactly helping the OP in their search.
  19. Big J
    I've never had any timber move whilst drying as much as cherry. One tree that I felled a few years ago split whilst drying and the split ended up 18 inches wide on a 9ft board. Extraordinary. You won't stop it moving. Just stack well, with weight on top and hope for the best.
  20. Big J
    Haha! A lot of it is because it's oversized and we used the forwarder to ring up. Machine lifts the log, person on each end to disc off the rounds and repeat. Then because the rounds are a little larger, I just stand them up on the ground and split in situ (the ground is covered in wood chip). Again, just to reiterate, I hate doing firewood!
  21. Big J
    Fair point. In my defense, I passionately hate processing firewood with anything other than a processor with a log deck, but I don't have one anymore so needs must. I just did 90 minutes a day over my Christmas break to keep me active and get some peace from the kids. I'm very experienced with an axe, which helps, but 3t of douglas (which splits easily) is a mornings work at most.
  22. Big J
    I split and stacked 15 tonnes of ash in 13 hours over Christmas. Not including cross cutting, which took 2.5 hours with assistance from my brother and my forwarder. Slightly oversized logs, I'll admit
  23. Big J
    Hardly seems worth it. Modest chainsaw and an axe and you'd have that done in a few hours
  24. Big J
    Fair point. I do have a big WRC site in summer and it wouldn't be as expensive as that.
  25. Big J
    Nice mill, horrible timber. I always hated larch when I had the mill. Much prefer WRC.

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