So far on my list I've got
1. mini Mattlock - fibreglass handle
2. Fullsize Mattlock - Beech Handle
3. A puck whetstone
4. 60" breaking/digging bar
5. Bacho hand axe - wooden handle
6. A large pruning saw - folding one
for general clearing and to tame nature etc.
We've got a tree surgeon coming to clear 5 trees which will be logged/chipped and left for me to deal with at some point.
Can you leave logs lying around? Should they be split and stored as soon as possible or can I just leave them until I'm ready.
Can you leave logs lying around? Should they be split and stored as soon as possible or can I just leave them until I'm ready.
Ideally split them and leave them raised off the ground (pallets) outside but with something over the top of them to keep the rain off.
After 12 months put them inside.
Its a plastic stick with 6Kg lump of metal on the end. It doesnt even want to be sharp?
This. I've got a [not wooden] handled maul and it's been fine.
Don't get the surgeon to chip, save your money by burning and not have a pile of chip to get rid of.
Sorry, tree surgeon pet hate, show client shiny bit of machinery and charge more.
Don't get the surgeon to chip
Thought I'd use the chips to surpress weeds and kill of the ivy that covering the ground in the woods. Is that a bad idea?
£650 to clear 5 trees (1 Sycamore, 2 Yews, 1 wild Bay, 1 nearly dead Elm) and 2 massive Rhododendrons with logs and a whole load of chips was alright.
It'll take 3 of them one day to do the lot. He'll be working in the area as he's based in Chester so my job will be added on to the back of another.
I'd give it a go myself but all the trees except the bay are as high as the house and in spitting distance of it. I'll practise my chainsaw skills on small trees in well away from the house. 😯
Chipping is fine if you have a use for it. Otherwise you are just paying for rubbish to be turned to another type of rubbish and then to be taken away when a match would just make it disappear.
Size dependent, the yew and elm may be worth more to turners/craftsmen than as firewood.
Sycamore is great firewood and you'll get plenty more if you leave the stump.
