PLANTATION
Update
January 2021
Much to our relief our tenant started harvesting their plantation of Shining Gum in January. There had been discussion of them abandoning it entirely due to the damage sustained in the 2020 bushfires.
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JANUARY 2021
Much to our relief our tenant started harvesting their plantation of Shining Gum in January. There had been discussion of them abandoning it entirely due to the damage sustained in the 2020 bushfires.
Burnt trees lead to potential carbon contamination of the wood chip pulp. Carbon has no fibre structure and so if this gets into the paper processing the end result could be paper with holes in it. Fortunately they have created a work-around by discarding the burnt sections of the trees at point of harvest. Skilled operators are required.
Come late February they will be ramping up the harvesting from the two harvesters currently on site to six. Each machine can process about two semi-trailers of timber a day. At full production we estimate they will be moving about 12 trucks a day and - weather permitting - this will continue for eight months. It has been a delightfully wet summer but a wet autumn will cause us problems as the window for harvesting the trees killed by the fire is closing. So our fingers are crossed for no rain but don’t tell the farmers!
Our tenant has decided not to renew their lease so we will be devising our own plan for the next plantation. We've already started discussions with various potential collaborators and are exploring ways to make this a legacy plantation that has ethics and sustainability at its core. Furniture grade timber and interplanted food crops are all under consideration.
We are excited at the prospect of including Yambulla guests at the decision making table via our Plantation Experiences starting in April 2021.
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Much to our relief our tenant started harvesting their plantation of Shining Gum in January. There had been discussion of them abandoning it entirely due to the damage sustained in the 2020 bushfires.
JANUARY 2021
Much to our relief our tenant started harvesting their plantation of Shining Gum in January. There had been discussion of them abandoning it entirely due to the damage sustained in the 2020 bushfires.
Burnt trees lead to potential carbon contamination of the wood chip pulp. Carbon has no fibre structure and so if this gets into the paper processing the end result could be paper with holes in it. Fortunately they have created a work-around by discarding the burnt sections of the trees at point of harvest. Skilled operators are required.
Come late February they will be ramping up the harvesting from the two harvesters currently on site to six. Each machine can process about two semi-trailers of timber a day. At full production we estimate they will be moving about 12 trucks a day and - weather permitting - this will continue for eight months. It has been a delightfully wet summer but a wet autumn will cause us problems as the window for harvesting the trees killed by the fire is closing. So our fingers are crossed for no rain but don’t tell the farmers!
Our tenant has decided not to renew their lease so we will be devising our own plan for the next plantation. We've already started discussions with various potential collaborators and are exploring ways to make this a legacy plantation that has ethics and sustainability at its core. Furniture grade timber and interplanted food crops are all under consideration.
We are excited at the prospect of including Yambulla guests at the decision making table via our Plantation Experiences starting in April 2021.