Saturday 2 October 2010

Start of coppicing 2010

Last weekend our friends Dominic, Katharine, Ivy and Giles came up to the woods to try their hand at coppicing. We made a start to this year's work in Sweep Wood, working on some Hazel and also the windblown Ash you can see in the background below.

Coppicing in the woods

We split into two teams, mainly for safety reasons!

Coppicing in the woods

Coppicing in the woods

As well as felling the Hazel, we were also using billhooks to clean up the stems so they can be used for something later on.
Coppicing in the woods

There was quite a pile of brash after a couple of hours work:
Coppicing in the woods

After lunch we burned it all up to make space for the next day of coppicing:
Coppicing in the woods

and took the opportunity to toast some marshmallows once the fire had died down:
Coppicing in the woods

I'm looking forward to getting up there again to do some more work, though things are pretty busy for the next week or so...

Mike

2 comments:

The Mannings said...

Delicious marshmallows, thanks, Mike. Hope Tracy is fighting fit again now and thanks for a great day.

Mike Pepler said...

Yes, Tracy's well again. Look forward to having you all up there again soon!

Cheers, Mike