What Do You Do With A 14 Acre Wood?

kinger101

Invite a bear round to see if what they say is true.

Davesnave

kinger101 wrote: »

Invite a bear round to see if what they say is true.

Why do you think they might be less than truthful? :huh:


Oh yes, silly me, it's obvious when you think about it: a bear-faced lie!

FreeBear

kinger101 wrote: »

Invite a bear round to see if what they say is true.

I'm free. I'll bring a chainsaw too

Kat1e

Thanks everyone for all your replies. We’re very grateful. You brought up many things that we hadn’t even considered and we have decided on this occasion we’ll leave well alone and leave it to someone that has the know how, time and money to manage this kind of project.

babyblade41

Kat1e wrote: »

Thanks everyone for all your replies. We’re very grateful. You brought up many things that we hadn’t even considered and we have decided on this occasion we’ll leave well alone and leave it to someone that has the know how, time and money to manage this kind of project.

I think that is a wise decision... sometimes the heart takes over and what at first seems idyllic , then becomes a drain both financially and mentally

danlightbulb

Kat1e wrote: »

Thanks everyone for all your replies. We’re very grateful. You brought up many things that we hadn’t even considered and we have decided on this occasion we’ll leave well alone and leave it to someone that has the know how, time and money to manage this kind of project.

I think thats a silly decision. You have the opportunity to own 14 acres of woodland here, not many get that chance. The worst that could happen is you just leave it to go wild which would not be a problem whatsoever, nature is perfectly capable of coping.

MobileSaver

danlightbulb wrote: »

The worst that could happen is you just leave it to go wild which would not be a problem whatsoever, nature is perfectly capable of coping.

I have a similar amount of woodland; the previous owners to me were actually paid by one of the government agencies to do exactly this for I think a 10 year period. I.e. they were paid to do absolutely nothing and to deliberately let the woodland go wild.

Davesnave

danlightbulb wrote: »

I think thats a silly decision. You have the opportunity to own 14 acres of woodland here, not many get that chance.

Oh dear, methinks there's a green-eyed monster at large!

Whatever choices we make in life, they should be ones we're comfortable with, especially if they have long-standing consequences.

Only a few people return to threads to update us, so perhaps you should be more mindful of the language used, if you choose to respond. Calling their decision 'silly' is not the most polite way to convey your disappointment. Lets be honest here; it's not something that touches your life at all.

AdrianC

danlightbulb wrote: »

I think thats a silly decision. You have the opportunity to own 14 acres of woodland here, not many get that chance. The worst that could happen is you just leave it to go wild which would not be a problem whatsoever, nature is perfectly capable of coping.

The problem is that there's a lot of invasive non-native species which do need managing if you want to maintain it as something approaching what would have been there pre-modern-era.

The big question is what the woodland is now? Is it native broadleaf, or is it just another pine factory?

Davesnave

AdrianC wrote: »

The big question is what the woodland is now? Is it native broadleaf, or is it just another pine factory?

There's a whole raft of questions we didn't touch on, but I suppose the one main thing we didn't consider was buying the house + wood and then selling some or all of the latter.

A chap near me bought a wood 10 years ago and sold half of it after around 6 years for roughly what he paid. The other half is on the market now.

Of course, the marriage value of house + wood would probably make the wood expensive, meaning the investment might not be fully recovered, but if one really wanted that particular house....