Trees you've cut

[jakethesnake]

Big job

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Not posted in a while.
Got into bad form fir a while over people not wanting to pay for work we completed.
It's got to be the toughest aspect of self employment.

Anyways, heres some more ivy covered spruce trees.

Idk why the photos are sideways, they're not like that in my gallery.











Nice views from the top.








That river is a tributary of the Shannon. The Shannon boat festival was on that weekend.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Some horrible cypress trees.
The customer insisted on us doing this botch job on them .
Butchered.






He had a spruce too. It's ten feet tall now.








I have no idea why the photos keep coming g out sideways.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

A big monterrey cypress.
Plenty of dropzone.















Nearly started a fire again

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

There was a bit of work in the log.






If admin could do something about the photos being sideways it would be great.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Massive ash.
Topped it to avoid power lines. Then felled it.

 

[Sloughfoot]

Not posted in a while.
Got into bad form fir a while over people not wanting to pay for work we completed.
It's got to be the toughest aspect of self employment.

Anyways, heres some more ivy covered spruce trees.

Idk why the photos are sideways, they're not like that in my gallery.



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That river is a tributary of the Shannon. The Shannon boat festival was on that weekend.

sue the bastards

 

[JIMG]

The action on the Shannon tributary reminds me of a scene in Holland.
And I think my son (and I) would love to live in a Castle house like that one.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

sue the bastards

They paid me in full, but they were reluctant. Very negative experience, left a very bad taste in my mouth. I've had cnuts not wanting to pay before but these w4nkers made this feel personal.

The action on the Shannon tributary reminds me of a scene in Holland.
And I think my son (and I) would love to live in a Castle house like that one.

It's an 18th century hunting lodge on an old protestant estate.

 

[chiselbit]

Not posted in a while.
Got into bad form fir a while over people not wanting to pay for work we completed.
It's got to be the toughest aspect of self employment.

Anyways, heres some more ivy covered spruce trees.

Idk why the photos are sideways, they're not like that in my gallery.



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What kind of trees are these in the back ground?

 

[chiselbit]

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

What kind of trees are these in the back ground?

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Sitka spruce
There's millions of acres of it in Ireland.
It's a disaster.

 

[chiselbit]

Sitka spruce
There's millions of acres of it in Ireland.
It's a disaster.

We don’t have any of those around me, what is wrong with them? Why are they a disaster?

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

We don’t have any of those around me, what is wrong with them? Why are they a disaster?

Landowners get grants to plant it. €400/ acre.
It's all sitka spruce, at least 90% of it. No other species has as high a value so sitka is all that gets planted.
That system started in the 80s or 90s.
Farmers planted up their land in poorer areas.
Then pension funds and other entities started buying up land and planting it.
Now the country is covered in it.
You have to give the grant money back if you want to reclaim the land.
If you don't replant you get ordered to or end up paying a fine.
County Leitrim has been so over planted that now there's local activist organization's dedicated to stopping further planting.
A lot of smaller forestries end up never getting cut because the cost of replanting is often higher than what you would get for the timber.
The trees are planted six feet apart. They reach 80 feet tall in 30 years. Then they blow down in the wind.
After the 2 big storms last winter there's apparently 500,000 acres of forestry on the ground across the country.
The price of cutting windblow is much higher than the price of cutting standing timber.
Now that there's so much timber flooding the market the prices are rock bottom.
It's pointless cutting your timber and not selling it because it's sold by weight, if left for a year or two it dries out and loses value.
And it's pointless not cutting windblown timber because if left it will bend, twist and rot making it lose even more value.
Coillte, the state forestry body however can sell their timber by volume, or by weight, whichever works out better for them.
Most forestries are in really rural middle of nowhere areas. The 50 ton log trucks used to transport the timber destroy the small back roads in these areas.

So yeah, it's a disaster. But people still plant because they get paid to.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Speaking of forestry, this was a Norway spruce plantation originally intended for Christmas trees.
The trees got out of control due to neglect.
They're a bit big for Christmas trees now .
Norway spruce us often planted in wet, low liying areas as its more frost resistant than sitka spruce. It takes a butt rot though.

We cut a few roadside leaners the harvester couldn't handle.






view from 100 meters away








A friend gave me the loan of his 3.2 ton tirfor winch. It didn't cone under any pressure with this tree.





Finished product.





@admin can you please fix my photos coming out sideways.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Landowners get grants to plant it. €400/ acre.
It's all sitka spruce, at least 90% of it. No other species has as high a value so sitka is all that gets planted.
That system started in the 80s or 90s.
Farmers planted up their land in poorer areas.
Then pension funds and other entities started buying up land and planting it.
Now the country is covered in it.
You have to give the grant money back if you want to reclaim the land.
If you don't replant you get ordered to or end up paying a fine.
County Leitrim has been so over planted that now there's local activist organization's dedicated to stopping further planting.
A lot of smaller forestries end up never getting cut because the cost of replanting is often higher than what you would get for the timber.
The trees are planted six feet apart. They reach 80 feet tall in 30 years. Then they blow down in the wind.
After the 2 big storms last winter there's apparently 500,000 acres of forestry on the ground across the country.
The price of cutting windblow is much higher than the price of cutting standing timber.
Now that there's so much timber flooding the market the prices are rock bottom.
It's pointless cutting your timber and not selling it because it's sold by weight, if left for a year or two it dries out and loses value.
And it's pointless not cutting windblown timber because if left it will bend, twist and rot making it lose even more value.
Coillte, the state forestry body however can sell their timber by volume, or by weight, whichever works out better for them.
Most forestries are in really rural middle of nowhere areas. The 50 ton log trucks used to transport the timber destroy the small back roads in these areas.

So yeah, it's a disaster. But people still plant because they get paid to.

I forgot to add that a lot of forestries have power lines running through them.
They planted the trees right up to the lines.
I've been in forests with kilometers of trees with branches directly overhanging 10-20kv lines.
There was no electricity for 18 days anywhere in my area after the big storm in January because miles and miles of power lines got buried under fallen trees.
I even seen 110kv lines flattened.

 

[oddsaws]

Landowners get grants to plant it. €400/ acre.
It's all sitka spruce, at least 90% of it. No other species has as high a value so sitka is all that gets planted.

Sorry to go off-topic on this one, but have you seen the film In The Land of Saints and Sinners? Pretty sure Liam Neesons character is planting these where he buries the bodies

Really enjoy your posts in this thread @TheDarkLordChinChin

 

[chiselbit]

Landowners get grants to plant it. €400/ acre.
It's all sitka spruce, at least 90% of it. No other species has as high a value so sitka is all that gets planted.
That system started in the 80s or 90s.
Farmers planted up their land in poorer areas.
Then pension funds and other entities started buying up land and planting it.
Now the country is covered in it.
You have to give the grant money back if you want to reclaim the land.
If you don't replant you get ordered to or end up paying a fine.
County Leitrim has been so over planted that now there's local activist organization's dedicated to stopping further planting.
A lot of smaller forestries end up never getting cut because the cost of replanting is often higher than what you would get for the timber.
The trees are planted six feet apart. They reach 80 feet tall in 30 years. Then they blow down in the wind.
After the 2 big storms last winter there's apparently 500,000 acres of forestry on the ground across the country.
The price of cutting windblow is much higher than the price of cutting standing timber.
Now that there's so much timber flooding the market the prices are rock bottom.
It's pointless cutting your timber and not selling it because it's sold by weight, if left for a year or two it dries out and loses value.
And it's pointless not cutting windblown timber because if left it will bend, twist and rot making it lose even more value.
Coillte, the state forestry body however can sell their timber by volume, or by weight, whichever works out better for them.
Most forestries are in really rural middle of nowhere areas. The 50 ton log trucks used to transport the timber destroy the small back roads in these areas.

So yeah, it's a disaster. But people still plant because they get paid to.

Wow. That does sound bad. Thanks for taking the time to explain that.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Sorry to go off-topic on this one, but have you seen the film In The Land of Saints and Sinners? Pretty sure Liam Neesons character is planting these where he buries the bodies

Really enjoy your posts in this thread @TheDarkLordChinChin

Not seen it.
They can't even make historical films in Ireland anymore because off all the north American trees littering the countryside.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Wow. That does sound bad. Thanks for taking the time to explain that.

Dark green is sitka spruce forests
Light green is farmland
Brown is mountain
Black is water

Leitrim, roscommon, cavan, sligo and fermanagh.