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Can i cut whins/ gorse now ?

  • 27-04-2015 1:19pm
    #1
    cj maxx
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    I Have gorse growing which i hope to spray but can i cut whin bushes and prune trees with s chain saw now . Someone said that the cutting season applied only if diggers etc were involved?


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  • #2
    Connemara Farmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,975 ✭✭✭Connemara Farmer


    cjmc wrote: »
    I Have gorse growing which i hope to spray but can i cut whin bushes and prune trees with s chain saw now . Someone said that the cutting season applied only if diggers etc were involved?

    No you can't, not until 1st September again.


  • #3
    Base price
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,459 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    7 years ago OH rented an outfarm from his Uncle. The Uncle had inherited the farm from a deceased family member. The farm was in a bad state of repair with feck all boundary fences. OH got a local contractor to fence the boundaries and they needed a track machine to do so.
    When we were putting up the boundary fences and clearing the way, with the track machine, the local NPWS officer arrived on site and to put it mildly, the **** hit the fan.
    NPWS ranger said that we were damaging established wildlife habitat and he was going to call the Garda in to stop us.
    OH, I and the contractor explained/argued that we had to fence the boundaries under Dept BTE regulations in order to run cattle on it and since the farm had been idle for years and never been claimed on then we could and should proceed.
    However there is about 7 acres of scrub/whins/ferns on the land that has been there since before OH's time. We have left it in as it was as it was always a good breeding spot for wild pheasant and snipe ;)


  • #4
    Muckit
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    They are called furze around here. They are luminous this year. Great colour on them altogether. It must have been the early spell of warm weather.


  • #5
    Nekarsulm
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    Connemara Farmer wrote: »
    No you can't, not until 1st September again.


    Bugger, I cut half a dozen clumps yesterday..........:o


  • #6
    ganmo
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    I've a pile cut ready to be burnt when I get a chance, lambing got in the way


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  • #7
    Nekarsulm
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    ganmo wrote: »
    I've a pile cut ready to be burnt when I get a chance, lambing got in the way

    Have two big piles from January as well. Was planning to save them till mid summers eve...


  • #8
    ganmo
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    Nekarsulm wrote: »
    Have two big piles from January as well. Was planning to save them till mid summers eve...

    I should of kept goin that day, but the darkness caught up with me...pass it every day and it annoys me Everytime I see it


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