john k

Ta, I've taken a punt and bought that one

Too slow

Have you got the latest version of the app? I was having this issue using the old one, but I downloaded the newer version from the App Store and all is well now.

A new rim sprocket will cost you less than a tenner, and it's a 5 minute job to replace it. It's a consumable item, so not too unreasonable to have to replace it on a well used saw. Stuff like this quickly mounts up though, taking the overall cost out of bargain territory.

Northwood Forestry near Pulborough sell pellets by the bag http://www.northwoodforestry.co.uk/wood-pellets Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk

I would guess about six times the capacity, and a trailer that you can stop!

They all fall over on an angle, propped up on the next one. The very last one lies flat so doesn't prop up it's neighbour and so on back down the line.

So does it seem like a reasonable assumption that a well filled and shaken cubic yard bag will actually hold a fair cubic metre measure of loose logs?

Either way, you'd be better off taking the Rav and buying some snow chains in case the going gets difficult. Assuming a 1000 mile round trip with the Amazon doing 20 mpg and the Rav doing 40 that's a difference of 25 gallons. At £1.15 a litre that's £130 which is enough for a decent set of snow chains plus change.

Any particular reason why you want to go to Glen Coe? From where you are it's not that much further to the Alps. It will be a nicer drive and way better snow!

They may just be incompetent. I suspect that they may have got confused about the difference between a s211 notice and an application for work on a tree with a TPO.

That "Notice of refusal" is meaningless. The LPA's only option is to serve a TPO on the tree if they believe that the proposed work is inappropriate.

Aspen

See if this link works

Chubbs there's some useful reading from the Forestry Commission here: http://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/FR_BEC_Establishment_and_management_of_broadleaved_coppice_plantations_for_energy_2009.pdf/$FILE/FR_BEC_Establishment_and_management_of_broadleaved_coppice_plantations_for_energy_2009.pdf How much firewood are you hoping to produce? Mixed broadleaves are likely to give you a yield of between 4 and 10 cubic metres per hectare per year. Your site is about 0.3 hectares so at the very best you're likely to get around 3 cubic metres of wood per year (maybe 4-5 loose cubic metres of logs). In practice you may find you struggle to get half of that amount.

I don't know if it roots from cuttings, but I know for sure that fallen goat willow will root where it touches the ground. It makes clearing up old wind blow a right PITA.

I definitely wouldn't plant hazel for firewood, which is the priority here. Even if the OP has a use for hazel products the quality in a mixed coppice is going to be poor and rotation length will be out of sync with the other species.

That's fair enough, but a bit different from deliberately planting it. Even assuming you could buy the saplings. Which I'm pretty sure you can't. Looking at the Chalara map, if you did want to plant ash then West Wales would be one of the better places to try it. It would be on borrowed time, but you might get some firewood out of it first.

I'm assuming that this is 0.75 acre not "3 or 4" acres? If so that's a very small area for any sort of useful coppice rotation. Have you thought about how you intend to manage it? If you cut 1/4 acre every 5 years that would still only be a 15 year rotation which is pretty small for firewood. Smaller coupes may struggle because of shading from neighbouring trees. What do you have in mind when you talk about "usable timber"? That is likely to have an impact on species and management decisions, and you may decide that it's not actually realistic to combine with coppicing in these circumstances. The biggest problem with mixed coppice is the difference in growth rates between species as the more vigorous ones will shade out the slower growing trees. I'd take out the oaks as they just won't keep up. Hornbeam is pretty slow too, but is shade bearing so will survive - the trouble is it will be much smaller than the others when you come to harvest them. What's the soil type? What grows well in the surrounding area? "The Silviculture of Trees used in British Forestry" by Peter Savill is a handy read if you can get hold of a copy, and says that Italian Alder coppices variably if at all. Grey Alder coppices much the same as Common Alder. If you want to maximise the amount of firewood then another option would be to go with Ecualyptus as the growth rate is astounding. Most species coppice well, and some are frost tolerant too. A different approach would be to plant blocks of similarly performing species and successively thin them rather than coppicing. Goat willow and birch will grow like weeds and could be worthwhile including if you'd be happy using them as firewood.

Thanks for the heads up

Yes, links were broken in the iOS app. Seems to be OK now though.

It would lose because it's 2 wheel drive. Traction wins every time.

A proper Land Rover alternative?

Except that it doesn't actually exist yet and there's no confirmed shipping date either.

There seems to be a definite association between the beetles and the disease, but as far as I'm aware that's as much as anyone knows at the moment.