Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

Dirt is actually not a problem as long as you don't want a golf lawn. Just rake it together with the leaf rake and shovel it into the hedge or the compost. The advantage of splitting wood at the house is that you are more flexible with time. Ideally, you go to the forest when the ground is well frozen, so you can split wood at home on the first warm days. This of course requires space for temporary storage.


I don't know how it is up there with you, here you only get a part of the wood if you can show the permit. Otherwise, you are not even allowed to participate in the auction.
You don't want to do significant amounts of wood by hand anyway if you have the option ;)

It's just an interesting question for me as well. It's (still) not an option for me since I don't have a stove or fireplace at all. I just find it sometimes interesting to question the regulatory frenzy in Germany.

In the saw course, is only the handling of the chainsaw explained, or also general things like which tree does what, when to cut down from which direction, in which direction it then falls, blah blah, etc. pp?

So a question about the splitter:

So yes, gasoline-powered, what kind of unit do you have there? For 40cm diameter and 50cm length (the carburetor manages nearly 60 cm) or rather, what can you recommend? I actually planned to split at the house, but the dirt argument and one less time of rearranging can't be denied.

Now you'll be surprised, I split everything by hand. That's the only area where I'm not so well equipped, but there's a reason. If I split any other way, I'll get big and fat. That's my alternative sport ;-)

How is it actually with the chainsaw license, you only need it for "foreign" forests. But what if you show up at "foreign" forests with a handsaw? Or just an axe? Aside from the fact that you should have trained properly for it, can you still be denied woodcutting just because you don't have a chainsaw license?


In the saw course, is only the handling of the chainsaw explained, or also general things like which tree does what, when to fell from which direction, in which direction it will then fall, blah blah blah, etc. pp?

So the saw license can only be required for state/municipal forests. In your private forest, you do whatever you want, so you can fell trees in swim trunks with a Swiss Army knife; it's completely up to you.

Which equipment you use is your choice. Used oil and self-mix are not always well received, which is understandable environmentally. You can forget about felling unless you have very good contacts. So many accidents have happened that private individuals are no longer allowed to do it. Usually, you only get brushwood (stacked at the roadside) and rarely logs, where you can process, for example, crown wood within a designated area. Because much damage was caused or some seriously injured themselves, this is also rather avoided. Additionally, a part of the crowns is supposed to remain in the forest and rot there.

Well, on the topic of dirt, when quantities get a bit bigger, a rake is no longer sufficient. Just calculate how much sawdust accumulates with three-digit quantities...

Interesting. Well, I had read that there are also private forest owners who let others in but often then require a permit. I don't even know: is the owner liable if someone saws while on their property and ends up sawing their own leg off?

Interesting. Well, I had read that there are also private forest owners who let others in but often require the permit. I don’t even know: is the owner liable if someone saws on their property and accidentally saws off their own leg?

The legal aspect is not exactly known to me here. It could be that as a private forest owner you might still be considered an entrepreneur and could be accused of gross negligence when selling standing timber without checking a sawing permit, since the poor firewood collector was obviously not aware of the dangers. As said, this is only a guess; a lot is possible in Germany in this regard... Felling permits have become very expensive, take up to 2 weeks, and there are also specializations like heli-logging, etc., which in turn require separate modules. With the normal sawing permit, you are only allowed to cut lying wood that is not under tension. So, simply put, a delimbed log on the ground.