FIREWOOD

We now have a limited supply of seasoned firewood and coppice products from a local privately owned woodland. We are now managing this beautiful ancient woodland in a sustainable and traditional way. All of the wood that we use has come from windblown trees and the traditional practice of coppicing.

Coppicing is the term used to describe the rotational cutting of the `underwood` in a traditionally managed woodland. This wood has large trees called `standards`, of mainly oak and ash. These trees grow to between 70 and 150 years and are then cut, as timber, for planks, boards or posts. If not felled these trees tend to blow over (windblow), which is a natural process and allows more space and light to reach the other trees, which then grow on to take the place of the fallen giants. The underwood in this wood is mainly hazel, with birch, ash, holly, cherry, crab and occasional field maple. These are the species that are coppiced (cut) to a stump every 8 to 25 years in rotation. The stump (stool) then re-grows and produces the next crop of small useable poles. These coppice stools can be hundreds and sometimes over a thousand years old and are the oldest trees in the woodland. The regular cutting of these trees promotes long life and renewable, sustainable wood.

Firewood Drying Bins

Coppicing also produces a lot of smaller diameter wood and sticks that can be used for a variety of crafts and purposes. Some of the products that we offer are:

Stool stumps

Rustic fire bowls

Thatching spars

Pea sticks

Just ring us with your requirements and enjoy the beauty of real wood.