Pollarding sound like a better option if you have a lot of deer pressure. Looks like you have a great fire wood system. I'm planning on doing something similar.
I did decide to pollard an area a few years ago, you can see it in my Smallholding tour video, but I didn’t like the look of it lots of shoots grew out sideways instead of straight up and it just looked really odd, I think it might take a good few years for a first cut pollard to start to look like you expect one to look like if you know what I mean🤣
@@SmallholdingUK I'll have a look. Just found your channel this morning. I grew up in the Netherlands, where pollarding is very common. Still don't know what I'll be doing. We are busy buying a place in the south of France. So now I'm soaking ideas I find on the internet. Fire wood autonomy is on my list!
Yep, do it every two years in our small 10 acre wood. This year will be mainly dead ash which died from the ash die back. I have about 5 yrs of logs in dry store so this stuff will hopefully come in about 6yrs from now. Good video.
I did not expect this video to be so interesting, but it was. Well presented as usual but packed with useful information, thanks. I'm still searching for land to buy, but keep losing out, probaly given up on prchasing a house plus smallholding in same location, so back to land plus house nearby!
Thank you 👍 Don’t ever give up my friend, we went to lots of parcels of land and got outbid every time for 10 years then we stopped looking because it was so frustrating and upsetting, I thought it would never happen then a few months later my wife just happened to see our plot advertised in the Oxford mail paper and the rest is history
Really informative, thanks. Can I ask a couple of questions; do you not chop your logs in half? The reason I ask is I have a wood stove in the house and spend a lot of time chopping logs in half and quarter, assuming it helped speed up the drying time. Am I wasting my time? And that tree you coppiced, how old was it? Really enjoying your content, keep em coming. All the best, Martin.
Hi Martin, the trees in that area are about 10-12 years old, there all on the small side I think because the ground is very stoney and dry there If I have logs thicker than about 5-6” I do give them a split, I don’t mind chunky logs and find at that size they still get down to at least 20% on my moisture metre Glad you like the channel 👍
Great video. I could watch them all day
Thank you
Pollarding sound like a better option if you have a lot of deer pressure. Looks like you have a great fire wood system. I'm planning on doing something similar.
I did decide to pollard an area a few years ago, you can see it in my Smallholding tour video, but I didn’t like the look of it lots of shoots grew out sideways instead of straight up and it just looked really odd, I think it might take a good few years for a first cut pollard to start to look like you expect one to look like if you know what I mean🤣
@@SmallholdingUK I'll have a look. Just found your channel this morning. I grew up in the Netherlands, where pollarding is very common. Still don't know what I'll be doing. We are busy buying a place in the south of France.
So now I'm soaking ideas I find on the internet. Fire wood autonomy is on my list!
Well good luck with it mate 👍 I love growing my woodland it’s a long old job but I love everything about it
Yep, do it every two years in our small 10 acre wood. This year will be mainly dead ash which died from the ash die back. I have about 5 yrs of logs in dry store so this stuff will hopefully come in about 6yrs from now. Good video.
Thank you mate 👍
Ash die back is such a shame, I planted 1000 ash trees like 15 years ago and nearly lost the lot 😢
I did not expect this video to be so interesting, but it was. Well presented as usual but packed with useful information, thanks. I'm still searching for land to buy, but keep losing out, probaly given up on prchasing a house plus smallholding in same location, so back to land plus house nearby!
Thank you 👍
Don’t ever give up my friend, we went to lots of parcels of land and got outbid every time for 10 years then we stopped looking because it was so frustrating and upsetting, I thought it would never happen then a few months later my wife just happened to see our plot advertised in the Oxford mail paper and the rest is history
Really informative, thanks. Can I ask a couple of questions; do you not chop your logs in half? The reason I ask is I have a wood stove in the house and spend a lot of time chopping logs in half and quarter, assuming it helped speed up the drying time. Am I wasting my time? And that tree you coppiced, how old was it? Really enjoying your content, keep em coming. All the best, Martin.
Hi Martin, the trees in that area are about 10-12 years old, there all on the small side I think because the ground is very stoney and dry there
If I have logs thicker than about 5-6” I do give them a split, I don’t mind chunky logs and find at that size they still get down to at least 20% on my moisture metre
Glad you like the channel 👍