My pusher phoned to say he had some smokeables for me.

The chainsaw courses in the country park have been in full swing clearing wind blown timber and thinning. It’s still a hike hauling wood out of the forest but so far it’s sustainable.

I was in France at the weekend and saw some amazing wood stores, some a hundred metres long forming field boundaries.

Industrial amounts of chopped and split wood in chords, stacks, rounds…. Black Forest is full of it.

If you want some dirty wood pile photo porn supplied in plain wrappers, I’m yer man…

I’ll take two bags rickmeister. Meet you down the alley.

I’m after something a bit less woody.

Got any hedge porn?

igmc.

That one on the far right looks exceptionally well built!

What are they sitting on?

And no Log Rover?!!

No Hedge porn but Readers Shrubbery or Practical Ladygarden back issues are available…

Yeah, where is LogRover ?

Its like an earthly outbreak of hives 🙂

I took the landrover for a maiden spin down to the coppice last weekend – been too wet to go since last summer. Very pleased to see it looking very well and last season’s stools sprouting 6’+ rods of new growth. Very resilient species of poplar by the look of it. Planning a summer of tidying works down there before felling again this winter. I need more to bring more wood home. What I really need is a trailer like yours though mcm.

Can’t wait for another couple of weeks when the spiders all come out – some of them are going to be bigger than hands.

Hope you have a flamethrower…

The long stores in France are generally wood for sale. They are built so a metre length equals a stère

Pah! There you lot are, with your fancy wood piles.

Me. I’m more pallets and skip raiding kind of wood. Throw it down the side of the garage and wait for winter.

It may not be pretty, but I haven’t bought any wood for four years, and I’m going to try and make it five years.

2nd one from the right is letting the side down, I dont know how you live with yourself tbh!

http://www.log-rover.co.uk/Putting%20things%20together/index8.html

Here’s the log Rover.

Stoner, a lot of the wood I saw in France was Poplar and Ash. It too is coppiced. I expect much of it isn’t for personal consumption. They really know how to manage their woodland. Among the forests they plant apple, pear and chestnut trees. The fallen fruit and nuts attract wild boar which are then hunted.

The woodpiles here have are generating their own wee ecosystems. There are lots of insects and there must be more than a few birds nesting among them too. Mostly I simply enjoy the way the sunlight casts shadows among them.

The wobbly one was my first attempt. It’ll be the first to be burned.

It’ll be the first to be burned.

Only right and proper! 😆