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Made me want to weep!
So many questions!
If we all cut down our favourite tree to supply firewood then we'd have no trees in our gardens. What's more, that tree would probably last just 2-4 weeks if it was truly heating a whole house.
What cost the tree surgeon too?
As someone who uses wood to heat my house I know how appealing it is. I also know that my house can burn between 8-14 cubic metres of wood in a season (depending on how cold it gets/stays).
What made the article interesting for you Chris;)
I think so many people like the idea of a wood burning stove, but don't understand the work/fuel it takes to run the buggers until they have it a while, I myself being guilty lol, I'm just lucky to have that 'free' supply :)
I have a friend who has a bit of a land that is dotted with mature trees and they say there is never a branch lying on the ground as people come in and lift it without asking. I wonder how many people really bother to ask the land owners permission?
Phil I think you hit the nail on the head, after she paid for the tree surgeon how much has she really saved?
Unless you have a supply of free wood is a log burner that much cheaper to run for someone living in suburbia?
The two tree surgeons would easily cost 300 to fell and log all that and it won't be ready to burn for months so it's saved her nothing in the short term but set her back
How mad chopping down such a mature tree,
One log burner ain't going to heat that house
She should be ashamed totally healthy fruit bearing tree destroyed...she should be weeping Phil with guilt.
A lot of my friends have wood burning stoves, my brother lives in Devon on the edge of Dartmoor (Yelverton) and has a ready free supply from window firms giving him the timber from old wood frames replaced with the latest PVC, they have never had to chop a tree down to source wood to burn and trust me there is a lot of free timber on Dartmoor if needed. My brother has stated on Burrator reservoir there have been instances of wood poaching but it is still very very rare.
Daily Mail should be taken with a pinch of salt..the maths does not add up to me...She bought a wood burning stove £500, to install it no less than £200, to fell the trees no less than £300, this lady is not in fuel poverty and had no need to chop down a sentimental mature cherry tree she planted with her father 20 years ago just don't believe it...makes a good Daily Mail story on how middle classes are being squeezed.
Does she look like she is poverty stricken? not to me, if you need to chop down healthy trees to feed your stove then i suggest you find another source of heating and keep your conscience clear.
What will be the next story line in a weeks time when her cherry tree wood runs out?
"Suburbia lady having to chop down her beloved husbands Man shed just to keep warm"....whatever.. a man without a shed is a man with no hope or purpose left in life..burn her books on "Country living whilst living in Surburbia" will make a much better fire.
Although I empathise with her needs to heat her house at an affordable price I am totalling against felling a healthy mature tree purely for the firewood.
The thing that got me was how it could be more cost effective to pay a tree surgeon to do this for her as opposed to just going out and buying some logs. It states in the article the tree was around 35ft tall and you can see from the photos that its located in an awkward position very close to a building and fences, other plants, a water butt etc. This means the tree would have to be dismantled and lowered down bit by bit to avoid damage. Furthermore once the tree has been felled all of the timber has to be cut to length then split, with all of the brash then presumably chipped, and seeing as the tree is in a narrow terrace house garden that means a long drag to the chipper. I would says theres about a days work for two men here which probably cost her between £300-£450, for that money she probably could have bought the same quantity, if not more, of seasoned firewood from a more renewable/sustainable source!
The maths, sentiment and costs simply do not stack up...
Its a shame but the clues are in the article, Daily Mail, Fuel, middle class and the fact that she is a journalist with the paper. More shocking that it didn't mention wild snow storms.
One beautiful tree killed because she couldn't think of anything better to write for the paper.
Exactly!
Graeme @ BGS said:
What Trevor said!
Burning the Daily Mail would be the best fuel, before reading it is even better. Hateful publication, preying on people's fears with half-truths and exaggerations.
So this is middle class economics! Ranks along with lets pay our gardeners less than a living wage so we have to pay a whole load of civil servants to manage a whole load of tax credits that will cost us a fortune.
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