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what to do with ash/sycamore thinnings

  • 13-03-2016 01:51PM
    #1
    John Kelly of
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 392 ✭✭


    Hi guys
    I am thinning about 4 hectares of 12 year old ash and sycamore by about 40% using a chainsaw.
    I have left the cut trees lying on the ground. There is an awful lot of these just lying there.
    They have an average diameter of about 4 inches.
    They would be perfect for firewood but it would be a major job to cut off all the side branches and drag them out.
    Does anyone have experience of this?
    I'd guess there would be a market for this wood but would the price be worth the hassle of making logs, dragging them out and and stacking them?


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  • #2
    Blackcurrants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 49 ✭Blackcurrants


    I would say it would only pay yourself to do it. Standard practice is to delimb or sned as you go, leaving piles of logs to be extracted. Since this is first thinnings it is not the most attractive of timber for firewood. The time it would take to process and extra probably wouldn't make it viable.


  • #3
    fergus1001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭fergus1001


    John Kelly of wrote:
    Hi guys I am thinning about 4 hectares of 12 year old ash and sycamore by about 40% using a chainsaw. I have left the cut trees lying on the ground. There is an awful lot of these just lying there. They have an average diameter of about 4 inches. They would be perfect for firewood but it would be a major job to cut off all the side branches and drag them out. Does anyone have experience of this? I'd guess there would be a market for this wood but would the price be worth the hassle of making logs, dragging them out and and stacking them?


    Are you claiming the woodland improvement grand to do this ?


  • #4
    $kilkenny
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 718 ✭✭✭$kilkenny


    there are grants available of €750 per hectare for 1st thinning of hardwoods... can be claimed after work is complete too ;) if it was a grant aided plantation.

    Best thing to do is saw it up into 10ft lengths and get it taken out, even if you use it yourself :)
    If it has racks cut 1 in 7 then use a tractor to forward the timber out.

    Use it yourself or stack it roadside and sell it as lorry loads of firewood or process it and sell it.

    or then theres also contractors or professional help.. :)


  • #5
    John Kelly of
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 392 ✭✭John Kelly of


    Hi yes I have applied for grant for this.
    Based on what you guys say it doesn't sound like it's worth the hassle of taking it out as this isn't my day job and I don't have much time on my hands. Might just leave it to fertilise the ground.


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