Around me is full of it, we’ve a field of ash full of it and there’s no scheme open to deal with it. Bigger trees do seem to be escaping it so far
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The whole scheme is a farce designed to get department off the hook, if you have over 25 year plantation or over a certain height or a certain diameter at breast height you will be excluded plus the fact that felling licences are years behind, anything with dieback should be a simple straightforward clearfell without a load of red tape. By the time the felling licence comes anything with hurley butt value will be destroyed by dieback.Seemingly the reconstitution grant is near impossible to get, it only accounts for dead trees.
What sort of money does a hurley quality tree make? And is it just a standard trunk or does it need the roots too?The whole scheme is a farce designed to get department off the hook, if you have over 25 year plantation or over a certain height or a certain diameter at breast height you will be excluded plus the fact that felling licences are years behind, anything with dieback should be a simple straightforward clearfell without a load of red tape. By the time the felling licence comes anything with hurley butt value will be destroyed by dieback.
It's just the root plus the bottom of the trunk up to breast height.What sort of money does a hurley quality tree make? And is it just a standard trunk or does it need the roots too?
We got 10 euro per board several years ago. We had to saw the trees down and then have them sawn into boards. Some boards make 1 hurl and some boards make 5 to 8 hurls depending on the size of the tree trunk. Specialist board sawer had to be used as referred by the hurl maker.What sort of money does a hurley quality tree make? And is it just a standard trunk or does it need the roots too?
Work colleague of mine lives next door to that. Reckons that they left the sawn infected ash on site for years afterwards and it infected loads of trees even after it was cut.When ash die back was discovered here but i am open to correction that the first case of it in ireland was up my neck out beside drumcoura city where cowboys n heros takes place.
Dept cut the planting and never said anything to any landowner in a 3 mile radius just went in with a saw on a digger and cut every native ash tree and burned them and sprayed the stumps.it was a woeful looking mess and they had no regard for farmers land either
Mature ash trees are too big for Hurley butts, 25 years or younger depending on growing conditions and competing trees.Have a few big ash trees to knock.does it pay after to saw into planks for Hurley’s. Or ringing them and splitting up for firewood ?
What part of the country are you in ?Hi all, I am looking for ash suitable for Hurley making. The ash must be growing in a woodland or a grove, ditch ash is not suitable.
Straight growing ash, with a minimum of three prominent curved roots per stem. Ash ranging from 25-50 cm in DBH. The ash must be free from defects within the bottom 1.3 meter section for e.g(no knots, lumps or brown heart). Contact me if you have possibilities. Thank you.
I am in Co. Tipperary. Have you a potential site?What part of the country are you in ?
I'll send you a message later.I am in Co. Tipperary. Have you a potential site?
I was up your neck of the woods last week and I noticed lines of trees at the side of the road and I would not like to be under them on a windy night.Dieback has become widespread here now. This summer has been hard on ash trees on our land. Anything that wasn't already dead didn't leaf properly and now that the leaves are falling, instead of breaking off at the leaf stem, the wind is breaking of the ends of the tiny branches.
The next storm will be telling. I wonder when will the authorities wake up to it. Its going to happen - trees will topple over along roads and kill people.
Dieback has become widespread here now. This summer has been hard on ash trees on our land. Anything that wasn't already dead didn't leaf properly and now that the leaves are falling, instead of breaking off at the leaf stem, the wind is breaking of the ends of the tiny branches.
The next storm will be telling. I wonder when will the authorities wake up to it. Its going to happen - trees will topple over along roads and kill people.
Depends on what area your in. None of the Ash here have it and hopefully it stays that way as most of the Ash trees here are a couple of centuries old. I have seen new or newish Ash plantations wiped out with it.