Redlingfield wood, 25 acres and owned these 25 years. David is ex Forestry. We are the same age, born in 1957. His wood was felled that year, so except for the oak standards, ash and hornbeam, it is all planted since then.
‘The best part is sharing’, he said. Around are lads messing about, coppicing, burning, ropping up. Exchanging with farmers, sharing equipment.
Deer control, laying hazel brush over stools
He has no nest, no place for coffee, tea.
Ash die back – we will have to learn to love Sycamore.
Firewood – in trailers, selling to local pub
Dear David
Many thanks. It was an illuminating visit to your 25 acres owned and managed for these 25 years. You said at the end the most heartening aspect is the cohort of people who share the woodland with you. Yes great to see those lads leaning aspects of climbing and not playing a woodland app. Interesting your find that deer do not like to pick their way through discarded bush from coppiced hazel. A good incentive not to ‘tidy up’. A tree man gave me advice that deer do not like to jump ditch AND hedge (in my case dead hedge) which I have developed on my southern boundary.
Kaliwood 