Do folk still do this, we always did at Xmas?

[Greythundercloudys]

Yes go to the newish forestery plantation with a saw and either cut a young one down or the top of an old one, remember going with dad in the 80s, mum always saying make sure it's not to big, always to big when in living room. Those trees are 25ft tall now, those were the Xmas days.

 

[JWL]

When the other half and I got together we moved into a tied cottage a couple of days before Christmas, hardly any furniture, mattress on the floor, boxes to sit on etc. I went into the woods and chopped the top out of a tree, put it in calf bucket, she put a couple of strands of tinsel and we had a couple of baubels. Couple of days in the warm ie Christmas morning we came downstairs and with the warmth and the cat using the soil in the bucket as a litter tray the poor thing gave a shake and made itself naked, just a pile of needles on the floor! We have fond memories of our first Christmas with Sticky

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Yes go to the newish forestery plantation with a saw and either cut a young one down or the top of an old one, remember going with dad in the 80s, mum always saying make sure it's not to big, always to big when in living room. Those trees are 25ft tall now, those were the Xmas days.

I watched as a child my dad climb a 30ft one and cut the top off

 

[Tarw Coch]

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Yep, what I used to do with my dad when I was lickle but don’t tell anyone

 

[7610 super q]

Errmmm............hate to be a crimbo party pooper of doom...........but did you pay the forestry owner for the ( section of ) tree ?
Did he wonder why all his trees seemed to die back 6 foot during December ?

 

[Barleycorn]

My kids (in their 30's) still raid our plantation planted in the 80's. Always bring back something far too big and unsuitable!

 

[Happy]

Yes go to the newish forestery plantation with a saw and either cut a young one down or the top of an old one, remember going with dad in the 80s, mum always saying make sure it's not to big, always to big when in living room. Those trees are 25ft tall now, those were the Xmas days.

Remember doing that with father back in the 80’s. my job was to rub the stump with a bit of mud so as it wasn’t so obviously newly cut down.
Eventually they all did get too big although I do remember him acquiring a larger one by these means for the local church one year

 

[DrWazzock]

Public goods aren't they?

 

[Yale]

Christmas tree procurement is one of my favourite nocturnal winter sports.

Not a bad effort this year.

 

[JD-Kid]

was a story years ago at a forestry school in the USA every xmas people used to go and steal trees they started spraying them with. skunk spray
could not smell it while frozen but. once inside in a warm house things changed fast. hahahaha

 

[Farmer Roy]

Err, common here on farms & in the country to just go & cut down a young pine tree in the scrub or even just by the side of the road . . .

 

[Happy hillbily]

Got to watch out for trail cams these days

Police track down 'chancer' who stole 'Christmas tree' from North Wales forest

The thief was dealt with by officers after making off with a tree from Clocaenog Forest

www.dailypost.co.uk

 

[goodevans]

Christmas tree procurement is one of my favourite nocturnal winter sports.

Not a bad effort this year.

I hope you don't procure your Christmas lunch in the same way

 

[Yale]

I hope you don't procure your Christmas lunch in the same way

How did you know.....

 

[Macsky]

Might have gone a bit early this year, if you breathe in the direction of it another 10% of its needles fall off

 

[goodevans]

Might have gone a bit early this year, if you breathe in the direction of it another 10% of its needles fall off

Keep your mask on

 

[Chae1]

Remember as kids at primary school we did news about what we had been up to at weekend on a Monday morning.

My brother told them all about how he'd went with dad to the wood to steal a Christmas tree!

 

[davieh3350]

Might have gone a bit early this year, if you breathe in the direction of it another 10% of its needles fall off

That’s a 25 year old tree up around these parts!

 

[TripleSix]

We don't have a Christmas tree so it's not something I do, shame because there is a Christmas tree plantation along the road.

Someone local had gone to procure a tree one night and there was about 6 other people in there doing the same!

 

[Tarw Coch]

We don't have a Christmas tree so it's not something I do, shame because there is a Christmas tree plantation along the road.

Someone local had gone to procure a tree one night and there was about 6 other people in there doing the same!

Or st least that’s what they claimed they were doing