Pile driver helps with fence construction
"Fence building is not witchcraft, says master silviculturist michael schneider, who is calmly explaining to his listeners the various tools and materials needed to properly fence a plot in the forest. It is much more important that they are installed properly. "In the end, it doesn't matter how it's done. There are various possibilities," he says, he continues. The main thing is that the fence stays tight and stable so that it prevents rabbits, deer and wild boars from biting the freshly planted trees on the property. The trees will eventually be felled in a few years and then used or sold.
Wood becomes more attractive again
Joachim Dahmer is the forester responsible for burkardroth from the office for food, agriculture and forestry in bad neustadt and organized the training in the waldfenster forest. In his area of responsibility, he regularly organizes motorized hunting courses, which have been well received so far. "The people in the burkardroth area are very active", he judges. However, because the rush on the motor-agency courses is slowly subsiding, he and his colleagues michael schneider and christoph schlereth are offering the topic of fence construction for the first time and are satisfied with the number of participants – around 15 people. "The groups were not allowed to be any rougher", says dahmer.
In general, dahmer notes a trend reversal in private forests. The natural raw material wood is becoming more attractive again, there are signs of a generation change. "The young forest owners are now increasingly interested in it", he describes. Areas that have been neglected for a long time are now being tended again. Dahmer attributes this primarily to the rise in oil prices, which has led to an increase in the need for cheap firewood.
Oak poles are more robust
"I get between 40 and 50 quarts of wood out of the forest every year", estimates training participant joachim nies. The forest window owner owns three plots of land in the local forest and another in the neuwirtshaus forest. He says he already took the motorsaw course once several years ago.
He attends today's training out of interest. "There are 60- to 80-year-old spruce trees on a plot of land that i want to clear in the next few years," he says, he continues. He wants to replant the resulting bare area afterwards and fence it in for protection.
Nies therefore listens attentively to the explanations given by expert michael schneider. He learns, for example, that homemade oak posts are more robust, while spruce posts from the hardware store are less work. Schneider demonstrates how the piles are anchored as solidly as possible in the ground with the help of a punch and a trolley.
Nies does not see an excessive workload for the maintenance of a private forest plot for himself personally. In general, how often he cuts wood depends on the weather and the season. "I'm not going to cut down the spruce trees all at once either," he says, he says. Because he also owns a farm, he has the necessary tools at his disposal. "I don't have to buy anything new", says nies, as he lends forster michael schneider a hand. With combined strength, they grab the pile driver and drive a man-sized oak splitter into the ground with powerful blows.
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