Growing Coppiced Willow For Wood Fuel- Woodfuels Woodfuel

Growing Your Own Woodfuel

Is today`s progressive approach of managing carbon emissions, with the grow and burn process removing carbon from the atmosphere. Managed correctly on a sustainable basis, wood fuel can be harvested as part of a constantly replenished crop, this is done during woodland management or coppicing or as part of a continuous programme with the new growth taking up CO2 from the atmosphere at the same time as it is released by combustion of the previous harvest.

Our kits come in a range of sizes to suit all budgets and plantation sizes, by dividing your plantation into four sections and harvesting in rotation you will have a ready supply of logs year after year, with the potential to substantially increase the plantation at little extra cost with life expectancy some thirty years later on.

Willow is the predominant species for SRC (short rotation coppice) and is already used in large scale woodfuel production for power stations, normally as wood chip. Automated domestic woodchip boilers are also becoming more popular. Both planting and harvesting the woodfuel crop is straight forward and can be done without specialist equipment if done on a small scale of up to a few acres. Harvesting is best balanced by dividing the coppice into four workable sections one year after planting to produce a four year cycle of coppicing, producing log sizes upto 2 to 4 inches in diameter, so no need for splitting. By harvesting in rotation you will have a ready supply of logs year after year.

A one acre plantation intensive wood producing logs or chips when harvested in quarter acre blocks will yield between 4 - 7 tonnes of air dried wood annually

Our Woodfuel Kits are of the hybrid willows used in commercial plantations and supplied as one year old rooted 60cm tall plants to enable easy establishment, ready for earlier coppicing just after one year from planting, in addition we also include a percentage of Ash as "ash green or ash brown is fit for a queen with a golden crown" or "ash wet or ash dry a king or queen shall warm their slippers by" Kits come with full planting instructions and we are here to help and advise.

All are available for planting out during dormancy November to March Delivered Mainland UK

Small Trial Woodfuel Starter Kit all inclusive cost £87.58

0.1 - 0.15 tonnes of air dry woodchips or logs produced when harvested in quarterly blocks annually

25 sq mt Woodfuel Kit Includes

25 sq mt Polypropylene Ground Cover Sheet

50 Pegs to hold the ground cover sheet in place

85 Rooted Hybrid Willows 60cm

15 Rooted Ash Saplings 60cm

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Medium Woodfuel Starter Kit all inclusive cost £175.17

0.2 - 0.3 tonnes of air dry woodchips or logs produced when harvested in quarterly blocks annually

50sq mt Woodfuel Kit Includes

50 sq mt Polypropylene Ground Cover Sheet

100 Pegs to hold the ground cover sheet in place

175 Rooted Hybrid Willows 60cm

25 Rooted Ash Saplings 60cm

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Large Woodfuel Starter Kit all inclusive cost £334.29

0.4 - 0.7 tonnes of air dry woodchips or logs produced when harvested in quarterly blocks annually

100 sq mt Woodfuel Kit Includes

1 Roll 105cm x 100mt Polypropylene Ground Cover Sheet

200 Pegs to hold the ground cover sheet in place

350 Rooted Hybrid Willows 60cm

50 Rooted Ash Saplings 60cm

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Quarter Acre Woodfuel Kit all inclusive cost £1025.11

1 - 1.75 tonnes of air dry woodchips or logs produced when harvested in quarterly blocks annually

Quarter Acre Woodfuel Kit Includes

5 Rolls 105cm x 100mt Polypropylene Ground Cover Sheet

1000 Pegs to hold the ground cover sheet in place

1125 Rooted Hybrid Willows 60cm

75 Rooted Ash Saplings 60cm

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Develop and increase your plantation in size with little extra costs by utilising willow sets from your established plants

For those commercially orientated and used to ground cultivation and weed control we can offer without the Ground Sheet & Anchoring Pegs

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