spandit
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I've taken down a large willow and have a huge pile of brash to deal with. I thought rather than just burning it in situ, it might be worthwhile getting it processed and provide some useful barbecue fuel (I like cooking on wood) and kindling. Rather than buying one (PTO powered for the tractor) I wondered if anyone locally had one they hire out (or with an operator?)
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Sometimes you get lucky, tree surgeons need to dump logs quickly as they're working locally. I had a VAST amount of macrocarpa dumped - still ploughing through it. Tree surgeon felt a bit guilty so came round with a nice load of ash too which I've added into the mix. You can always say no but I find it's normally chip rather than logs and rarely hardwood. I've ended up dumping willow into habitat piles and I'd do the same with horse chestnut (I'm currently logging willow for burning next year, though, as supplies took a huge hit)
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Sound advice. I can't go back right now.
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No, I did not... I've left the pub now too
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At a pub in Lewes. Fruit too small to be apple and doesn't look like crab apple either
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Yes. Neck and neck, I'd say. Or trunk and trunk.
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Well, it's been 5 years and both doing well. The alder certainly doesn't want to let go of its friend
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Some days it does seem like I'm trying to burn asbestos
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I was given a whole load of Corsican pine years ago and it was chock full of fatwood - still using it now to make kindling. Leylandii I find a bit knotty to split but cedar is superb.
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I have been fortunate to have been given more logs than I can use, so I now have my own directory of friends who can take them away again! Some of the tree surgeons are ones I approached when seeing them working but just had a very polite call from someone on here who will be tipping next week. Tends to go in fits and starts. I can go months without anything and then some weeks I get several different companies tipping. Just a shame it's so bloody wet in my field as can't shift it around the place without chewing it up
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I'd take them if you could drop them onto a suitable habitat pile
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Transplanting trees into a different orientation
spandit replied to spandit's topic in Tree health care
Very kind, thank you! You're not far away either... Can always plant more hedges -
Transplanting trees into a different orientation
spandit replied to spandit's topic in Tree health care
Fair point but they were free and better to try rather than let them go to waste -
A good friend of mine has a load of little hornbeam coming up in his garden, which isn't huge. It's one of my favourite trees so we uprooted a dozen or so this morning for me to plant here. The largest was about 2cm in diameter and about 2m tall, maybe a bit more. I'm hoping they'll all take but wondered if anyone had done a study to see if trees transplant better if they're replanted facing the same way they were dug up? Too late for mine, it was an idle musing as I had nearly finished planting them all, but I wonder if trees are confused to find that suddenly they're the other way around? On that note too, if a tree is leaning due to light from one direction, I wonder if digging it up and turning it around would straighten things?
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Just jab the willow into the ground - if it's cut at an angle it'll go in and they're such voracious rooters - mine grow roots all the way along if you just leave them on damp ground for too long. Any time from now should do but I generally wait for a bit longer to make sure they're properly dormant
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Try leaving your hands out in the rain for 6 months
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Doesn't matter how viscous it is if it's water soluble. Anyway, let's not argue about it. Wood needs to be dry to burn and dry wood will burn.
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If the resin was being washed away then it wouldn't accumulate below. Yes, it's seasoning on the rare days it doesn't rain. It's mainly because I lack the space to put it all inside straight away
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I think it washes some of the resin out. Might be wrong.
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I get almost unlimited amounts of leylandii given to me (from being a registered tip site on here). It's not what I'd choose, but beggars can't be choosers and it kicks out a lot of heat. The branches are really dense. It's best left out in the rain for a year or so before seasoning in the dry - when it's bleached and/or grey, it's great fuel
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When you hang the washing out does it dry? Like washing, logs need airflow and heat to dry, the former more than the latter, I think.
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Laurel is good - grows quick, quite dense, although there is cyanide to contend with. Leylandii is also good, although I prefer to season it for 2 years otherwise it can be a bit resinous. It's fairly rot resistant too, so if the logs get wet whilst seasoning, they're generally OK. Any wood will burn once dry, they just dry at different rates. That said, I wouldn't bother with horse chestnut again as it goes incredibly light and doesn't give you much return for the effort.
