I’ve written posts previously about ash die back in our ancient woodland. Over the last 3 winters we’ve felled in the region of 300 ash trees in and around our main camp. Generally speaking they’ve been small diameter trees and relatively easy to deal with. But we had a bunch of ash along the woodland edge that were much bigger and we needed a professional woodsman to deal with them.
Many of the trees were leaning over the adjoining field, but some needed to be winched as felling them into the camp would mean too much damage.
After a discussion with the farmer who owns the field, we recently had a window of opportunity to fell the trees into the field in between one crop being harvested and the next being planted.
The work went smoothly and 14 large stems were felled into the field. There was some damage to the fence, but all things considered it wasn’t too bad.
Here you can see some of the stumps left behind.
And some of the stems themselves.
Some photos of the freshly felled trees laying in the field.
Steve and Finlay did all the snedding and Gordon used his grabber to move the brash from the field back into the woods.
Steve used the tractor to drop the timber over the fence into our field ready to be processed into firewood and then caried out the repairs to the damaged fence.
Massive thanks to everyone involved.
