Green disposal

Ectophile

You have to have patience if you have a wood burner and want to scrounge free wood.


Any green wood I get is stored for two years before I attempt to burn it. Attempting to burn green wood isn't just environmentally unfriendly - it also clogs up your chimney and is more trouble that its worth trying to get the stuff to burn at all.

Grenage

Most people with wood stores probably have a store or two for seasoning wood. As long as the branches are thick enough to make it worthwhile, they'll probably take it. It generally takes a year or two to be decent.

Otherwise you'll need to chop and take to the dump, chip and compost, or build a wildlife wood pile.

Davesnave

I have grave doubts that the wood generated by someone without the foresight to think about disposal, or the knowledge to ID the tree, would actually amount to anything very worthwhile. They are not up there with climbing boots and a top handle saw, that's for sure!

The fact that they 'won't fit in the car' is not a reliable measure of quantity.

Even when the pros from the power company come to attack our oaks, the amount of usable wood they generate is disappointingly small by the time they have chopped it up and left the worthwhile limbs.

andrewf75

How big is your garden? If you have space just chuck it all in a corner somewhere. Brilliant habitat for wildlife. I have a similar pile at the end of my garden, which I meant to deal with a few years back and is still there somewhere beneath the brambles and nettles..

Ectophile

A nice little "habitat pile" of logs in the corner of the garden can be a home to all sorts of creepy crawlies. It has the advantage that you then don't have to take the logs away to anywhere.

Ganga

Can you not hire a chainsaw for a day from your local tool hire store? will cut anything down to transportable size in no time

EssexExile

Ganga wrote: »

Can you not hire a chainsaw for a day from your local tool hire store? will cut anything down to transportable size in no time

Unless things have changed you can't hire chainsaws without the proper qualifications. You can buy them though!

Davesnave

EssexExile wrote: »

Unless things have changed you can't hire chainsaws without the proper qualifications. You can buy them though!

http://www.brandontoolhire.co.uk/en/landscaping-and-gardening/3381-cordless-36v-chain-saw.html
Neat little jobbie. I have the slightly better one and it's amazing what it can do.

Davesnave

Davesnave wrote: »

http://www.brandontoolhire.co.uk/en/landscaping-and-gardening/3381-cordless-36v-chain-saw.html
Neat little jobbie. I have the slightly better one and it's amazing what it can do.

£70 is a bit expensive for a day though. My Screwfix special was £50 to buy and it's still going after 4 years of reasonably hard work.


:rotfl:Arguing with myself now! That was meant to be an edit.

EssexExile

Davesnave wrote: »

http://www.brandontoolhire.co.uk/en/landscaping-and-gardening/3381-cordless-36v-chain-saw.html
Neat little jobbie. I have the slightly better one and it's amazing what it can do.

You still can't hire it without a certificate.