glasgowcyclist
Charming but somewhat feckless
- Location
- Scotland
That kind of amateur effort is really dangerous. No safety gear nor helmet
Nor gloves, don't forget the gloves!
That kind of amateur effort is really dangerous. No safety gear nor helmet
Nor gloves, don't forget the gloves!
Ash is moderate water demand tree (NHBC Chapter 4.2 Building near trees). Something to consider is that if you get rid of it, if your house is on clay, it may swell and cause some heave once the tree is no longer abstracting water out of it.
As regards wood value locally I can get a builder’s bulk bag of seasoned wood delivered for £55-65 depending on wood quality. A bulk bag isn’t very much wood so this appears expensive but all the cost is in the labour. I have a wood burner and open fire, currently I’ve two years worth of timber stored all of which I’ve scavenged locally from neighbours etc. Logging, splitting and stacking is very labour intensive.
Whenever I find a wood source people are generally happy to get rid of it. If you find someone prepared to pay, no matter how little, jump at it. Personally I wouldn’t pay for unseasoned, unlogged wood.
It is 5 feet to the wall of the building.
My wood burner heats my house for free and has done for years on wood from neighbours felled trees that they were only too happy to see the back of.
NonsenseIf it is cut up into boards and seasoned it would be worth about £25 a cubic foot. Skilled artisan woodworkers could turn your tree into around £100,000.
We don't need experts! What do they (you) know...Nonsense