Growing
your own Wood-fuel
Is
today`s progressive approach of managing 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 £90.00
50sq
mt Woodfuel Kit Includes
100
units = 0.1 - 0.15 tonnes of air dry logs produced when harvested in quarterly blocks
annually
..Planting
Growing & Harvesting Instructions

Medium Woodfuel Starter Kit £163.00
100sq
mt Woodfuel Kit Includes
200
units = 0.2 - 0.3 tonnes of air dry logs produced when harvested in quarterly
blocks annually
..Planting
Growing & Harvesting Instructions

Large Woodfuel Starter Kit £264.00
200sq
mt Woodfuel Kit
400
units = 0.4 - 0.7 tonnes of air dry logs produced when harvested in quarterly blocks
annually
..Planting
Growing & Harvesting Instructions

Quarter Acre Intensive Woodfuel Starter Kit £384.00
Quater
Acre Woodfuel Kit
700
units = 1 - 1.75 tonnes of air dry logs produced when harvested in quarterly blocks
annually
..Planting
Growing & Harvesting Instructions
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