Christophe wrote:Ben transforms 3 to 5 ha into a forest...but then you have to wait a bit...huh!
The idea is not really to plant a forest, but to see if it is possible to invest in a shredder to make something other than compost.
From there, I would see with what I can produce with the maintenance of hedges and orchards, including at the neighbors.
And if that's not enough, I still have former colleagues who make wood (purchase of standing cuts) from whom I could buy branches from felling in order to produce what I need (it's the advantage of a shredder mounted on an agricultural tractor, you can go directly to the forestry site to carry out the processing on site as you go)
For the moment the question is not to find material to grind, but to know if the purchase of a grinder can be an operation which will be used in the more or less long term, to produce usable fuel in a domestic boiler?
If not, then I don't really want to invest 3000 to 4000€ in equipment that will only be used in the end to make compost. Might as well sacrifice a little space to make a big pile of branches in a corner (on this account rather invest in a front fork, which would be much more useful to me for many other things)
If so, then the investment may be possible, even if the woodchip boiler only arrives in 10 years...