KIPPAX - Own your own willow
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yvk3103

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KIPPAX - Own your own willow
« on: December 11, 2008, 02:56:05 AM »

I am not sure if anyone has come across this section on Kippax website - Own your own willow... interesting concept but the weight is too long. Goo for those with new born children (if youa re sure they will play cricket)...

The scheme goes like this:

You pay £100 today and Kippax Willow Ltd. will plant a 3 year old sapling on your behalf and maintain it over a period og 10-15 years. Once the tree has reached it's optimum growth, it will be felled and you will get 10 custom maded bats from it....

more details on the link below:

http://kippaxcricket.co.uk/bat_willow.html


I would prefer to get one bat each year from the day I enroll into the scheme....who knows whats going to happen after 10-15 years.....
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Re: KIPPAX - Own your own willow
« Reply #1 on: December 11, 2008, 08:04:41 AM »

It is a fair price, a sett from Wrights would be £10 and the rest of the money would cover the landowner cost and de-budding. The problem for me is that Wrights are planting 2 setts for every tree they cut down and there will be a surplus shortly. Indeed the current shortage is just a ploy to bump up prices.

A decent tree should produce 30 bats so 10 for you leaves 20 for them at no cost, not a bad return as they will get the pick of the clefts, you could be left with 10 grade 3's.
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Re: KIPPAX - Own your own willow
« Reply #2 on: December 11, 2008, 09:26:20 PM »

they claim they will give 10 top grade bats......

I buy your point to a large extent....

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