Managing Woods for Woodfuel - post Chalara
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Managing Woods for
Woodfuel – post
ChalaraMike Seville
Forestry and Woodlands Adviser
Country Land and Business Association
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Using wood for heating has
become increasingly popular
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By the end of January, since the launch of the RHI 560 boilers, with a
total capacity of 123 megawatts have been installed in England
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Many on rural estates; and many more are planned.
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However we also now have Chalara
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Woodfuel can provide a valuable market for your
timber
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An opportunity to manage your woodland and
improve it’s profitability
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And create woods that are both
beautiful and valuable
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What Have You Got?Subcompartment Name Area Planting
Year
Species Species details Comments
1a Fir
Plantation
4.00 1900 MB Oak, Ash
1b Fir
Plantation
3.00 1979 MB/MC Oak,Ash SP,EL EL poor
2 Harpley
Belt
3.60 1945 MB Oak, SC Good quality Oak
3a Bunkers
Hill
8.10 1956 MC/MB SP, Be SP80% Be 20%
3b Bunkers
Hill
2.10 1960 MB Be, Ash
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What can your woods produce?
• Scots pine YC 10 will produce
approximately 6 tonnes per hectare per
year.
• Ash, sycamore or birch YC 8 will produce
approximately 5 tonnes per hectare per
year.
• Generally you would thin your woods
every five years.
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What Are Your Objectives?
• Providing woodfuel for own use
• Growing quality timber for profit
• Shooting
• Some where nice to walk
• Wildlife habitat
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Can you supply your needs?
• If you can, great!
• If you can’t then you can buy in round
wood.
• If you have too much then you can sell
some.
• Sometimes it may make sense to come to
an arrangement with your neighbours to
even out supply.
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Planning
• Prepare a Management Plan
• Are there any designations?
• Carry out a European Protected Species
Survey
• Get a felling licence.
• Enter an England Woodland Grant
Scheme.
• Take good advice.
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Thinning
• Marking the thinning is the most important
job in woodland management.
• The man (or woman) who marks the tree
makes the wood.
• The worst comes first the best remains.
• Never let the buyer or the harvesting
contractor mark the wood.
• Don’t be afraid of big machines.
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Harvester working in young mixed
woodland
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Costings
• Costs will vary
• Harvesting to roadside should cost
between £18 per tonne for a harvester and
• £28 per tonne for motor manual.
• You will have to pay extra to get the timber
to the drying and chipping site.
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Logistics
• Handle the timber as infrequently as possible.
• Every time you move it, it costs you money.
• Cut the right size for the chipper.
• Stack it tidily on hard airy site.
• Keep it clean.
• Be professional; you are producing a high quality fuel.
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Stack it tidily on a hard airy site
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Chalara – What does it mean for
future woodland management ?
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• Better deer management
• More diversity of:
• Species
• Structure
• Age class
• No more coppicing of ash
• No more Ash?
• More forward planning