Making the most of a tiny woodland (by coppicing) 

People forget, or just don't know, that up to just 100-150 years ago most of England's woodland was regularly managed and without this constant work it would a desolate and congested mess.

@@oldbatwit5102 Today people waste time and energy on mindless entertainment, instead of using their resources to benefit their community. They behave like 2 year old's needing to be looked after constantly. I read that the UK National Grid is working at 92% all the time. Sometimes I long for a 4 week power cut. Just to watch who survives without their sky box and microwave.

@@LittleCarol I am new to this channel, and LOVED your comment! You are spot on 👍😉. All these fools keep pushing this so called climate change, but only seem to suggest taxation of the public has a solution! They keep talking about taxing the public to death in order to reduce our use of fossil fuels, yet at the same time allow large corporate companies to keep making Billions from the sales of the very fuels they say are responsible for the damage! But I don't see any Governments offering cheap or free solar panels and a battery storage system for the public! Because even if solar power only reduced the use of the grid by 25%, that certainly would be a step in the right direction! But I suppose FREE energy from the sun wouldn't be in the corporate interest would it? 👍😉

@@MrNed09 Eh many civilized governments offer tax rebates, exemptions and/or refunds if you get solar panels hooked up and fill out proper paperwork. Same with modernizing a house/building with proper insulation and windows. It is done in many US states and Canadian provinces nowadays although taking time to get popular or seeing mainstream use. However, Germany has been on solar for a while. Best thing is, when the weather is agreeable and sunny, your personal electric use (since you arent cooling or heating) may be lower than the power your panels generate resulting in your power suppliers paying you back since the panels are feeding the grid. It isn't much but it's a damn sight better than owing them the usual monthly fee.

@@RandomPlaceHolderName But I would rather have NO monthly fee! By running my own power and not supplying the grid at all! That's why they say Sola power isn't viable! What they really mean is that Sola power isn't viable for them to make massive amounts of profit by selling it back to the public! And the moment you want to supply your own free energy, all of a sudden taxation and penalties come into play! And all of a sudden saving the planet soon gets forgotten about! It's not about saving the planet, it's about keeping their scams going!

Harry Brown MGH want to look at Honeydew carpenters channel for his rock mass heater design, and also look into a lumber processing machine, some of them are quite small for homestead use

Brian Minghella I’ve made a conscious choice to avoid ash due to die back but in an ideal world I would have liked it I have used a wide variety to cope with future conditions what ever they may be

Auction hunters is awsome

People have different tastes. If you don't like auction hunters, don't watch it. You control RU-vid and what you watch on it dipshit. Not sure why I even have to explain this.

Government does not want you to know this their nightmare is a self sufficent community of people that can think

@@Claymore1977 that isn't a hundred percent true. You tube alagorithims suggest what you would like. You don't have to watch it and can type in what you wan't to watch, but how do you know if you like something without watching it?

@@emelgiefro that is probably why there are so many shredder videos wasting tons of usefull wood.

Some of the IBCs seem much more prone to UV damage than others, the ones I use for water storage are covered anyway to stop them going green. Ash dieback is a bit of a worry, I've been planting hazel in preparation, I'm lucky I have a variety of trees but of course ash is such a useful species...

I leave them open whilst the wood seasons (preferably at least a year) them use a cover on the cage when I'm using the wood for the fire just to keep the rain/snow off before it goes indoors.

Thank you so much @@maximusironthumper

Not really as most fruit trees are grafted (different root to tree). You could look into forest gardening though - a similar process to your idea.

I use it on the forge (blacksmithing), it's also a very good soil improver and I've even experimented with running an engine on it (gasifer)!

I might involve the digger a bit more in the future - it is a rather clumsy for forestry use though!

I really want one of those bilke s3 type processors, cut, spilt and lobbed into the icb's, so much reduced handling. My back is ruined so mechanisation is very appealing!

I do grow willow, but not for firewood - in my experience it makes very poor logs. If you think about it anything that grows super fast can't be very dense. When willow is used for fuel it's grown more like a crop of reeds and mown once or twice a year and then processed into chips or pellets. It's also better suited to the bottom of valleys and as you can see most of my trees are on steep slopes!

spoplehughes......... mine is murder the management

It depends what you want it for, for willow it could be every year (for weaving) for hazel every few years (for the poles) for fire wood it's when you feel it's worth it, so I'd wait until the tree was at least 4"-6" in diameter.

It depends how crowded they are looking, I do thin trees sometimes but I like to maintain a fairly dense canopy inside the woods to keep down the brambles etc.

He mentioned, in an earlier video, the Bristol area.

I have about 3 acres and it seems plenty for me. Always good to have a mix especially as Ash dieback looks likely to devastate all the Ash trees in the country.

I wouldn't plant ash now simply because the dieback will kill off most of it, the hazel does okay in part shade. For most of my woods I manage using a continual cover system - so basically just keep thinning out the bigger trees and in doing so opening up the canopy for the smaller ones (this practice mimics an ancient woodland where an old tree falls and opens up space for younger ones), might be a better option for you than very small cants. I get away with natural regeneration here but if you have evergreens you may need to plant as well. Sorry to say I'm not knowledgeable enough to advise on many shade tolerant natives but I'm sure the info is out there!

@@maximusironthumper Thank you. I'll consider thinning instead, although the woodlands currently isn't very dense (plus I'm worried of felling a tree that gets stuck on others - I haven't used a chainsaw in a few years). The woodlands is only shaded from the south (to the north, and northwest, I have a field) so I'll also try looking into more shadetolerant coppicing-trees :)

Sure, it's all in The Poor Viking's Dinner Set playlist: ru-vid.com/group/PLNE6DEIclzg3r_0yW1S8kqrVV0GpuuNxH

Maximus Ironthumper thanks Max! by the way I'm from the Philippines..I like your videos..so simple I could see the daily life of a Filipino too..😊😊😊.. keep it up Man! God Bless You!

Second best time is today!

Actually probably depends on weather and if you have irrigation or not.

WITH PAULOWNIA YOU CUT EVRY TWO YEARS IF WATER IT OR MABY 4-6 IF YOU WANT BIGER QUANTITY

@@zoranzoran9096 you use poulonia for firewood? It was mainly intended for carpentry, for it's fast growth, low weight and long grain. I am supposed to sell some now for firewood but at a price which is largely just to get rid of it.

I go every year to look at how local coppices are doing. It is like a huge laxative for the woodlands, cleans em out freshens em up, keeps em healthy. Its sad to see a once managed coppice left to rack and ruin. All that "leave it for insects and animals" is an excuse for idleness (or to get an eu grant??) Theres a wood not far from me where the hazel is 15 and 16 inches thick its been left so long without a crop, amazing actually

@National Localist So we should let them die? Probably best not to interject with ignorant opinions and let people that are knowledgeable about woodland management and forestry do their jobs.

@@Chooibah what is wrong with trees dying naturally. It is a part of the cycle of life. Are we humans so cocky we think forests can't survive without us? Yes whe can do positive things for forests but as a whole we definately do more damage.

@@אוריפלסי Coppiced and pollarded trees live longer, and managed woodlands are demonstrably healthier. Of course trees can survive without intervention, just not as well and without the increased biodiversity that management brings.

@@Chooibah what about the giant sequa that died simply from the weight of people walking around it packing the soil.

Good luck my friend! Totally agree. Still don't have the balls, this end. 👻

I understand his thinking, but it brings very many safety points that his screwing up. I for one would never leave such stumps around to people get trip and stab them selfs, or more importantly for me to do so, while working. Secondly its terrible practice to fell a tree from that hight 30cm up. First you have to cut it twice, so you dont leave stake traps around, or waste tree leaving in in forest, witch again wastes fuel and secondly you do it with small trees and you end up doing it with bigger ones that will probably in some point get you killed or injured. Tree falling should be done always so you can accurately as possible predict how tree will fall down, where the heavy end will fly off when it hits the ground. This comes with experience for seeing how trees move and is hard enough as is, as you cant see how hard ground is in places. Cutting it from that high, will add huge ass modifier to operation that makes it next to impossible to predict in witch point tree will slip off from stump, what direction and where it then will land, witch again effects how the heavy end swings. Specially dangerous in slope or area where you can get away fast even if you see it will flung at you by how it moves. I do like natural forest that is managed, not murdered to have clearing, but i also dont like such tangled mess that is created by coppicing method. I actually fight against it as it just suffocates sprouts after foresting and makes harvesting so much harder, than falling a bigger tree and chopping it up. Also bigger firewood burns longer, where sticks like these are gone in seconds due huge ass surface area compared to mass and dry much slower due bark, or could even start to rot depending on weather. Though i cant talk about British forests, but least from my experience in north these are the problems...

Leaving the sumps the way I do is the whole point of the coppicing process. The tree I felled with a high cut had a bend in it, so by cutting it the way i did it fell exactly where i wanted it to. I then cut it again to get the stump the way I wanted it. I didn't explain any of that in the video as it's a video about coppicing not how to fell a tree. Coppicing is a way of woodland management that has been practised here for many centuries and is a very effective may to extract the most usable wood from a small area. Where I live we don't have the luxury of large forests and if we did I certainly wouldn't be able to afford one!