TOWN TREES

[Murphydog]

 Hi,glad i found this site.We run a small business here in the UK.We do some forestry work,mainly thinning out and some replanting but alot of our work comes from local councils. Cutting overhanging branches over roads is the favorite at the moment.We also do alot of domestic work,pruning and shaping trees in folks gardens.I have been interested for a long time in the forestry work in the USA and Canada,its a much bigger scale than here in England.

[clww]

Welcome to the Forestry Forum!
What types of trees do you have there to work with?

[Ironwood]

This Urban Logging is becoming very common here in the US. Mostly marginal pursuit, but becoming more common. Albeit not inot commodity markets.


Welcome Ironwood

[Murphydog]

Hi,thanks for the welcome.We have most species of trees,oak,birch,beech and scots pine.Most folk have flowering cherry trees in their gardens,their roots spread close to the surface and there have been complaints from neighbors that the roots have spread into their gardens.Further north there are some big forests with all types of conifers,these forests are run by the government owned Forestry commission,most of the timber they fell goes to the pulp mills.

[Mark Wentzell]

Is Scots Pine used a lot for lumber in Britain? In north America most of it does not yield high quality wood.

[Murphydog]

Scots pine is grown in the Forestry Commissions forests,most of it goes to the pulp mills for paper making.Noble fir,Sitka spruce and Larch are the main timber producing trees.

[WDH]

Scots pine is a very fine timber tree in Scandinavia.

[RynSmith]

Noble fir,Sitka spruce and Larch are the main timber producing trees.

Is the larch an expat American too?  I'm a bit surprised to hear that these are the chosen species although they are fine growers.  They are able to outcompete any local or regional choices?

[Murphydog]

There are 2 varieties of Larch grown over here.Japanese Larch (Larix Kaempferi) and the European Larch (Larix Decidua) The European Larch is grown for its valuable timber which is stronger thanthat of most conifers,the Japanese larch is is a faster growing tree than the European Larch,The hybrid Dunkeld larch grows even faster and is often now planted instead. 8)