smallwoodlander

morning people thanks very much for all your helpful answers ! the first thing i need to do is get a copy of the felling agreement, funny thing is i searched the FC reg and there was no sign of it, although woods that are having work done in the area are there. there was a problem with title some 3 years ago i caught ( what turned out to be ) the other large forest owners managers on my patch this led to a lot of tooing and throwing between solicitors they could not prove tittle and i have the land reg in my name with the land reg and a plot number for my holding at this time it would seem they had a licence to fell but did nothing, then this august they started to fell, i have seen the cutting plan which excluded my bit, but that would be different from the felling licence. i agree wind blown will be a problem some of the edge trees have already fallen and or are leaning so yes in that respect i am between a rock and a hard place and i did forget to mention last night is a writen contract the way to go, thank you Mac for pointing this out. i will now contact the contractor and see if he has a copy of the felling licence if not a trip to my local FC office will be the way to go, il update you all when theres any thing happened, i do thank you all you have shown me the way forward, Regards B

Hello every one MY first post here, Im a small woodland owner mainly Sika plantation, im surounded by other large plantations of the same timber, my area is about 6 acres with a track to the B road, the above forests are being clear felled, i was unaware that my holding had been included in the licence to clear fell till the contractor approached me on friday, nice chap offered me £20. a ton, a deposit and the wieght ticket for each lorry load, now im very new to the commercial side of timber production/extraction my question is is this a good offer? the trees i would guess on average would be 2ft dia at 2-3ft up. larger on the out side edge. i would also have then the responcability of replanting and all the paper work that envolves which really for such a small acreage seems a little over the top, one thing that did come to light is the contractor is not connected with the forest managers ( he outbid there own contractors for the standing timber) so i dont think theres any love lost between these two! im unaware as yet to the felling time frame, replanting time frame as they must of put down what was going to be replanted this may not coincide with how i would like my area to be replanted, im not sure how flexible the FC would be in a case like this, ie the permission was granted to clear fell my area but i may want to replant under a different plan, im coming up with more problems than solutions the more i think about this, hence my joining here to run this past you guys any thoughts surgestions would be greatfully received Thank you in advance:001_smile: