chanteoiseaux
ArboristSite Lurker
Hey everyone.
Long time lurker here,been meaning to join up for a good while and finally got around to it.
Im an englishman living in rural mountainous France off grid on a 55 âcre Douglas fir plantation. Was planted in 2005 and is a real beautiful plantation.
Have maybe 10 acres of larch and à few âcre of cedar too.
On top of that I have another 35 acres of old beech,oak,chestnut and Hazel .
My questions are for the Douglas firs.
I have debranched the whole plantation up to three mètres (my terminology is probably not correct as im more familiar with french words when it comes to tree work).
I have been pulling out best trees, and some birch and willow where nécessary to go for wood chip and granules but it's hard to get a straight answer here on what to do with the Douglas firs.
I think its time to do our first thinning. The smallest of the trees are about 8inch diameter at chest height.
But I need advice about what would be best to do with the logs.
I get very conflicting advice from people here. Everyone gets big machinery in but for me who works in the forest I dont want to go that route. I have the tools and sawmills are close by.
Do these size Douglas firs have value if I do first thinning myself and take them to Sawmill myself?
At what size do Douglas firs become commercially valuable and what at this size are they typically used for?
Thanks, I look forward to getting involved on here and sharing idées and questions.
Long time lurker here,been meaning to join up for a good while and finally got around to it.
Im an englishman living in rural mountainous France off grid on a 55 âcre Douglas fir plantation. Was planted in 2005 and is a real beautiful plantation.
Have maybe 10 acres of larch and à few âcre of cedar too.
On top of that I have another 35 acres of old beech,oak,chestnut and Hazel .
My questions are for the Douglas firs.
I have debranched the whole plantation up to three mètres (my terminology is probably not correct as im more familiar with french words when it comes to tree work).
I have been pulling out best trees, and some birch and willow where nécessary to go for wood chip and granules but it's hard to get a straight answer here on what to do with the Douglas firs.
I think its time to do our first thinning. The smallest of the trees are about 8inch diameter at chest height.
But I need advice about what would be best to do with the logs.
I get very conflicting advice from people here. Everyone gets big machinery in but for me who works in the forest I dont want to go that route. I have the tools and sawmills are close by.
Do these size Douglas firs have value if I do first thinning myself and take them to Sawmill myself?
At what size do Douglas firs become commercially valuable and what at this size are they typically used for?
Thanks, I look forward to getting involved on here and sharing idées and questions.