I was having a problem where Fir sapplings from the top of my tower tree farm were falling to the ground and planting themselves? Then I had all these Fir trees around the base of my tower. I didn't want to extend the lip of the tree farm to catch all the sapplings so I switched first to Birch, but some of those would grow with leaves so low that the golems would get stuck, so I switched again to Jungle trees. Those seem to be keeping up just fine with only 4 2x2 plots.
I also upgraded to use Alumentum, seems like a big improvement in fuel usage, I used to be able to run down my charcoal stockpile by running my EBF non-stop, but now I'm steadily building up more and more alumentum in the barrel.
If I need further upgrades to it, I was thinking of adding an automated Thaumcraft charcoal production setup feeding into the alumentum production, since it seems my system is slowed down by slow charcoal production from only 8 coke ovens. Anyone else tried that instead of just adding more coke ovens?
A server-mate put a golem tree farm in front of my base. I got to watch it operate day after day and realized the gather golem was pretty horrible at gathering. Lovely. So I looked for an alternative and found the Vacuum Chest from (what else) Ender IO. I installed one at the top of my tree farm tower to collect all the wood and saplings, and four more at the bottom of the tower, one at each corner. The Vacuum Chest will collect anything within 6 blocks of it. Believe it or not (I know you will believe it), those darn Fir Tree saplings still plant themselves outside the 6 block range at the base of the tower, meaning they're falling up to 10 blocks outward. Any collection effort would be way too large and too ugly IMO, so I finally just gave up caring about the stupid Fir trees that just won't quit. They're awesome for their wood of course, but what a pain in the you-know-what otherwise. Another ring of Vacuum Chests would do it, but they aren't cheap of course.
One thing about the Chest, I put it level with my Logs barrel and my Saplings barrel, and items would get stuck against the Barrels and not get to the chest. Of course, a true Minecrafter never wants to waste materials in such a fashion, so I ended up elevating the chest by one block. Even up in the air, the wood and saplings are sucked right up into it - so fast, in fact, that even if I wanted to try and pick stuff up off the ground, I can't. Break a block anywhere near it, and you won't see it, it is instantly in the chest. It can be annoying but it is awesome for the tree farm.
