Thinning Some ash woodland

[Doing it for the kids]

got two woods, not huge, with ash possibly 30-40 yrs old. It's never been managed before and needs thinning out.

I didn't not need the timber, where does one start?

Will it's value cover the costs?

TYIA

 

[woodworm]

Where abouts are you and how many acres. This would possibly give an idea of tonnage involved. Whats accessibility like and does it have Ash Dieback (Chalara)?

 

[Doing it for the kids]

Oxfordshire, maybe 2 acres.

Access is good.

No die back that I have seen.

It's probably too small for most

 

[woodworm]

Contact a local firewood merchant, not neccesserily a big one and offer half of for sale standing. Sell it for about £27/t and make sure it is all weighed as soon as it is felled and hauled away. If they make a nice job and clear/burn the lop and top, offer the other half to them.

 

[Ben M]

Contact a local firewood merchant, not neccesserily a big one and offer half of for sale standing. Sell it for about £27/t and make sure it is all weighed as soon as it is felled and hauled away. If they make a nice job and clear/burn the lop and top, offer the other half to them.

Is ash really £27t standing?!

 

[woodworm]

I'm paying £45 for machine harvested roundwood at roadside so yes. Maybe a bit less standing if hand felled but worth £24+

 

[B R C]

Why don't you use it in your F2000?

 

[Doing it for the kids]

Too much effort! Got loads of bales, have to faff about drying and loading it.

Thought crossed my mind though!

About to gap up and improve nearly 2k of hedge so this will help find the 20% FWAG can't

 

[Ben M]

I'm paying £45 for machine harvested roundwood at roadside so yes. Maybe a bit less standing if hand felled but worth £24+

Fair enough. Can get some cord for 35 - 40 around here. Not much money in firewood with it 40+ imo.

 

[texelburger]

Is ash really £27t standing?!

I was offered £ 45/t standing ,3 years ago,for Ash.The haul was only 5 miles to a major firwood proessor.Understand it has gone down a little since then.

 

[franklin]

I didn't not need the timber, where does one start?

Start with checking to see if you need a felling license from the Foresty Commission.

http://www.forestry.gov.uk/forestry/infd-6dfkw6

Then see if a local conservation group will come and do the work. Or local training group could use it as a venue for a chainsaw course.

 

[Still Farming]

What happened to ash die back disease ?

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Best firwood you can get

 

[phillipe]

first up you can fell six cubic meters a year without license,here in monmouthsire the forestry/nrw sell standing cordwood at around 110 per ton

 

[Goatherderess]

Can someone tell me the difference between a cubic metre and a ton when selling standing wood? I've offered some ash at £20/cu m - is this too high or too low? I've just about worked out a long ash stem is a cubic metre, but what weight will it be?

 

[phillipe]

Can someone tell me the difference between a cubic metre and a ton when selling standing wood? I've offered some ash at £20/cu m - is this too high or too low? I've just about worked out a long ash stem is a cubic metre, but what weight will it be?

cheap,dry ash here around 100 m3 in firewood form

 

[Still Farming]

first up you can fell six cubic meters a year without license,here in monmouthsire the forestry/nrw sell standing cordwood at around 110 per ton

Are they on the BSL list for rhi wood ?

 

[phillipe]

Are they on the BSL list for rhi wood ?

havnt the foggiest,all goes to a processor who puts 4 bits in a bag and sells it a tenner a bag in london

 

[woodworm]

£110/ton? never, that's about £200/cubic metre in firewood terms, and thats without taking the cost of felling into acount. It would be the most expensive form heating in the UK.

 

[woodworm]

What happened to ash die back disease ?

Its on the rampage, getting worse and more widespread.