We've been planting 200- 400 trees for future coppicing for the last 5 years. The fields are getting smaller on a yearly basis.
We still buy in some wood every year but also cut down an appreciable amount of our own.
We have 2 years supply stored but are working towards increasing that to 3 years asap.
We have foreseen an inevitable increase in price looming and that's if we can still obtain some
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Horizontal Top Bar Hives
Growing fruit, nuts, vegetables and a variety of trees for coppicing.
Janco2 wrote:We've been planting 200- 400 trees for future coppicing for the last 5 years.
Is that per annum? Well done, that's serious work - one a day! <jealous>
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Yes, it has been for 5 years now.
Unfortunately as we are fairly high up, they take a while to establish but they do make it eventually. We've planted a few trees every year for the last 30 years but only in the last 5 years have we decided it is better to have trees than just let the local farmer cut for hay once a year.
We foresaw impending problems in the 70's so moved here in 1980 and ran a smallholding for many years until our old house cow departed and BSE meant it was not worth investing in another.
Grid connected Proven 6kW Wind Turbine and 3.8kW Solar PV
Horizontal Top Bar Hives
Growing fruit, nuts, vegetables and a variety of trees for coppicing.
The logs work out at about 30 quid per cubic-yard (loose)
That sounds very expensive a cubic yard is only about one log basket so you would burn that in one day!
Are you sure you don'y mean cubic metre for 30 quid which would be a very good price?
chech you figures on the the arbtalk forum i reckon.
Commercial supplier bought softwood firewood is usually not less than 50 quid a cubic metre and not less than about 80 quid a cubic metre for hard. Prices vary around those figures quite widely, though depending on the source.
The logs work out at about 30 quid per cubic-yard (loose)
That sounds very expensive a cubic yard is only about one log basket so you would burn that in one day!
Are you sure you don'y mean cubic metre for 30 quid which would be a very good price?
chech you figures on the the arbtalk forum i reckon.
Being an oldie, metric's all very confusing for me, but I don't think there's that much difference between a cubic metre and a cubic yard, such that £30 for one would be brilliant whislt £30 for another would be absolutely rubbish,
Peter.
Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the seconds to hours?
JohnB wrote:For every several metres I multiply by 3 and add a foot
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I experience pleasure and pains, and pursue goals in service of them, so I cannot reasonably deny the right of other sentient agents to do the same - Steven Pinker
I have been burning decent quantities of firewood for 3 years now and have yet to have to buy any wood. I intend to keep it that way.
On Saturday I am visiting somebody who wants a Eucalyptus tree cut down. I do this for free as long as I get to take the wood away. Anybody know what Eucalyptus is like for burning? Never burnt it before.
Also getting some other trees/logs I have spotted cut down on some unused land a bit out of the way. It will be filling my trailer by Saturday evening and probably on Sunday too. Waste not want not.... Keeps me fit and keeps my wife warm.
Anybody know what Eucalyptus is like for burning? Never burnt it before.
