"but if you aren't doing anything else with your time at the moment....."

I wish.  I'm flat out every day (but not ALL day owing to old man's energy limitations  :-/
I'm typing this during a break from trying to cultivate new growing areas with a pick axe.  >:(
It doesn't apply to me.  I only have one Carob which hasn't had any pods for the last few years.  I have pruned it and used the wood for logs but the side branches at ground level had spread to a width of about 15 meters.  I'm leaving the upright trunks and higher branches.  Not a bad burning wood though.