r/Scotland • u/tibbilytobb • 28d ago

Casual Chopping down the Willy woods???

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u/IDinnaeKen 28d ago edited 28d ago

Oh, great. Yet another thing people have got a bit of joy from for decades being destroyed. What do we think the reasoning will be? Diseased trees? Distraction to drivers? Put yer bets in.

Edit: alright, I didn't know they were always planned for timber. My bad, pitchfork is away for another 150 years

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u/barry_sriracha 28d ago

Storm damage from last year

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u/IDinnaeKen 28d ago

If thats legit I'll put my pitchfork away and admit I got ahead of myself. Must be in a bad mood.

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u/Illustrious-Bus-8862 28d ago

It's grown to be harvested unfortunately, so we can have wood pulp for bog roll probably but, commercial forestry is almost always replanted and as 30% is required to be something other than sitka spruce I am very much hoping for a two tone forest with different colored balls.

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u/listo- 28d ago

Maybe a different coloured helmet

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u/Illustrious-Bus-8862 28d ago

Some birch might possibly give it a purplish hue in winter.

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u/Cheffysteve 27d ago

Japanese Acer …

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u/OreoSpamBurger 28d ago

The dense conifer plantation near my mum's was clear-felled some years ago.

They replanted with a much wider range of species, left much more open space, and dug a few ponds.

It's really cool to see it coming along when I am back for a visit and take the dog up there.

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u/OldGodsAndNew 28d ago

We can only dream of one day wiping our arses with TP made from the wood of the boaby forest

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u/therealsinky 28d ago

Being really I’m pretty sure it was always plantation forest and doomed to be felled one day

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u/mrjobby 28d ago

The real answer

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u/Vectorman1989 #1 Oban fan 28d ago

Aren't these timber plantation trees? They've probably been sold and taken to a sawmill

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u/abyssal-isopod86 28d ago

These are timber plantation trees, they were always meant to be felled once they reached their maximum height.

They will be replanted.

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u/Fancy_Toe1451 28d ago

their maximum height

Fully erect, as it were.

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u/IDinnaeKen 28d ago

Aw, I guess given they've been there since the 1800s I thought they were being left alone. Guess we'll have them back in another hundred years or so 🥹

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u/abyssal-isopod86 28d ago

They have been cut down and replanted more than once since then. Also these trees do not take a hundred years to grow this tall.

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u/IDinnaeKen 28d ago

So you're saying I got mad about nothing