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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Definitely too big.Ā  I think I'd just get rid in one fell swoop and share the timber with the neighbours, assuming you and/or they have log burners, or sell it.Ā 

    Our tree surgeon cut all our trunks and branches into log burner width lengths and we stacked it to dry.Ā  Burns a treat and very hot.Ā  Ā We use the thinner branches for kindling and the birds are using a pile of brush as a conference centre - but then we do have the space all that needs.
    VendƩe - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    It is very large for the available space, nice as it is to have a large tree, I might be tempted to get rid.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited August 2020
    We don't have log burners ... one of the neighbours does but he prefers to buy his wood seasoned and split ... he doesn't have the time to split it or the room to store it ... pollarding it is an option that appeals ... we* could probably manage to keep it pollarded without too much trouble/expense and it'd give us beanpoles ... a definite plusĀ  :) .Ā  And at least we (and the birds) wouldn't be losing it completely.

    I grew up in a village called Ashfield ... there were many many ashes ... a great number of them were pollarded ... it's a traditional technique which as well as providing building timber and brash for cattle feed, also prolongues the life of old trees.

    *note the use of the Royal 'We'Ā  Ā  ;)

    Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316
    Thatā€™s a really impressive tree a Dove.. Ā I can see why youā€™d like to keep it.Ā 
    S. E. NSW
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    I would want to keep it too, but it fills so much of the garden and if it is sick, you are likely to lose it anyway.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I agree, and cheaper to have the one visit from the tree surgeon I would think.

    Time to bite the bullet maybe and just think of all the extra light and the planting opportunities when it's no longer looming and sucking up all the water.


    VendƩe - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    yeah, too big for the location. 'ave it out.Ā 
    BTW, you can burn ash in a wood burner after only 3 months.Ā 
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited August 2020
    If you want to come and fetch it @Hostafan1
    you're welcome to it. šŸ˜‰ We donā€™t need it and will have to pay Mr A to cut it up and cart it away down the side path which is a short metre wide and with sheer sides ...Ā 

    Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Dovefromabove said:
    If you want to come and fetch it @Hostafan1
    you're welcome to it. E donā€™t need it and will have to pay Mr A to cut it up and cart it away down the side path a short metre wide and with sheer sides ...Ā 
    freecycle?
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Canā€™t rely on folk to come and get it when itā€™ll take a lot of work. Itā€™ll need chainsawing into lengths etc ... we thought we had someone who wanted the wood from the other tree and then they changed their mind at the last minute. Fortunately the tree man took it Ā ... but if we were left with a huge pile of timber itā€™d cost us to get it carted. Weā€™re on the edge of a city (technically in it) so not a huge demand for firewood and thereā€™s plenty of it aaround here ... Mr A will sell it for firewood but heā€™ll have to log and split it first.Ā 

    Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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