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Midland Spinner



Joined: 13 Jan 2009
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Location: Under a green roof
PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 13 11:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Birds do nest in it.

Mostly pigeons in my experience, but also smaller birds.

Cut down before the nesting season and you should be fine, and as Pete says, if you season it well it makes firewood.

Lorrainelovesplants



Joined: 13 Oct 2006
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Location: Dordogne
PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 13 12:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

We have pidgeons, crows and magpies nesting in ours (they are very tall - John says 35ft).

We have cut and used as firewood - it took 18 months seasoning. The crappy bits we used as kindling. It takes ages to break down if composting(I dont think the little bugs like it).

VM



Joined: 23 Nov 2007
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Location: Lincolnshire
PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 13 7:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Thanks for all that, folks - very useful.

That's a pretty bit of wood, Pete - I'd never have thought that leylandii could produce something so nice!

Better get the saw out soon before those birds start nesting - oh, perhaps better wait til the snow has gone!

TTouch Homestead



Joined: 13 Oct 2011
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Location: Cardigan, West Wales
PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 13 7:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

We are toasty warm thanks to the large leylandii hedge we took down on moving in. It burns lovely. We chipped the smaller stuff or used it whole on top of the really bad mud areas to stop us sinking...

marigold



Joined: 02 Sep 2005
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Location: West Sussex
PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 13 7:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

My brother left the leafy bits of his ex-leylandiis in a heap at the bottom of his garden while he got on with other things. Ten years later he had a pile of rather nice soil conditioner.

vegplot



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Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd
PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 13 7:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

marigold wrote:
My brother left the leafy bits of his ex-leylandiis in a heap at the bottom of his garden while he got on with other things. Ten years later he had a pile of rather nice soil conditioner.


Those small jobs can take ages, but 10 years!

Tavascarow



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 13 7:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

The twiggy stuff can be shredded & used as a mulch around ericaceous shrubs if it's left in a pile to heat for a few weeks.

marigold



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 13 7:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

vegplot wrote:
marigold wrote:
My brother left the leafy bits of his ex-leylandiis in a heap at the bottom of his garden while he got on with other things. Ten years later he had a pile of rather nice soil conditioner.


Those small jobs can take ages, but 10 years!


He build a rather splendid cider shed in front of them and out of sight, out of mind...

vegplot



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 13 8:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

marigold wrote:
vegplot wrote:
marigold wrote:
My brother left the leafy bits of his ex-leylandiis in a heap at the bottom of his garden while he got on with other things. Ten years later he had a pile of rather nice soil conditioner.


Those small jobs can take ages, but 10 years!


He build a rather splendid cider shed in front of them and out of sight, out of mind...


out of his head

john of wessex



Joined: 18 Jun 2007
Posts: 2130

PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 13 9:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

W trees we've just finished burning two leylandii-oid trees we cut down in the spring.

Burnt a treat.

You need to handle it with gloves as the resin gets everywhere. As advised on Downsizer we didnt throttle out wood burner to stop problems with the chimney.

Good King Wenceslas had the right idea - got the page to carry the logs!

Nicky cigreen



Joined: 25 Jun 2007
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Location: Devon, uk
PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 13 9:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

we burn leylandii in the woodburner - just mix it up with other wood

the leafy branches are really good on the bonfire - they go up with a woof!

Hairyloon



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 13 10:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

colour it green wrote:
the leafy branches are really good on the bonfire - they go up with a woof!

Even fresh, provided your fire is hot enough and you don't put too much on at once.

john of wessex



Joined: 18 Jun 2007
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 17, 13 9:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Yer Tiz!

https://forum.downsizer.net/about67389.html&highlight=leylandii

onemanband



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 17, 13 11:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Hairyloon wrote:
colour it green wrote:
the leafy branches are really good on the bonfire - they go up with a woof!

Even fresh, provided your fire is hot enough and you don't put too much on at once.


Yeh and provided you don't have a neighbour with Short Man Syndrome who calls the fire brigade.
Minus 2 and 9pm - what better time for a bonfire ? Fireman said they have no authority to extinguish fire - so stick that in your pipe and smoke it Napoleon.

Nick



Joined: 02 Nov 2004
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Location: Hereford
PostPosted: Fri Jan 18, 13 9:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Hehe, got to love neighbours.

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