WoodLots News September-October 2003
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Ash
from Ashburnham
WoodFair 2003
Wood Season Highlights
Free Coppicing
Information Signs
Calling All Chair Makers
Barry Murphy designed and made this freestanding ash shelving system (left) for the Netherfield Shop as part of the Action In Rural Sussex project to bring fresh local produce into village shops. The ash was sourced from Ashburnham - within walking distance of the shop!
WoodFair 2003
September 19th, 20th, 21st
Amongst
all the usual delights found at the biggest forestry, timber and wood-use
event in the Southeast, Weald WoodNet will be hosting the Timber
Build Network marquee in the Railway Field, with Architectural
Ensemble, The Green Oak Carpentry Company, the Forest
Products Research Centre of Buckingham Chilterns University College, Buro
Happold (timber engineers), Inwood Development Ltd
(finger-jointing technology) and WoodLots all contributing.
Lignatherm Ltd, the
wood fuelled heat supply company for the Southeast, will be at WoodFair
alongside technical specialists Bioenergy Technology and Jolly-Mech,
suppliers of industrial and domestic wood fuelled heating systems. Have
all your questions answered about locally supplied wood fuel, the
renewable solution to heat supply.
The Sussex & Surrey Coppice Group
will be at their coppice camp in the woods and can explain all the
advantages of getting neglected coppice woodland back into a productive
coppice cycle. Talk directly to experienced and skilled coppice workers
from the region. The Group are particularly interested in making links
with woodland owners with coppice woodlands. See coppice crafts
demonstrated including charcoal burning and hurdle making.
The full WoodFair programme is available at www.eastsussexcc.gov.uk/env/events.
Tickets £6, Senior citizens £5, children £4, family (2 adults + 4
children) £19. Includes entry to all usual attractions at Bentley
Wildfowl & Motor Museum’s, so make a day of it.
Wood
Season Highlights
WoodFair 2003 marks the beginning of the first
East Sussex Wood Season, an extensive programme of events and
opportunities running from late September to early November. Particular
highlights relating to local timber production and use are:
Open
Day at the Woodland Enterprise Centre
26th October. Your chance to tour this unique sweet chestnut building, set
in typical Wealden woodland. Meet the people behind the project and find
out all about the wood fuelled heating system. See programme for details.
Ben Law, the inspirational Sussex woodsman will be giving a talk at
the Woodland Enterprise Centre on the evening of Friday November 7th. Ben
will talk about his approach to woodland management and productivity plus
the planning and building of his unique sweet chestnut cruck frame house (as
featured earlier this year on Channel 4’s Grand Designs). £6 including
refreshments, booking essential, see programme for details.
East Sussex designers and makers utilising
local timbers: Charles Thomson, Barry Murphy, Dinsdale
Woodworks, Great Trugs of Sussex, Wooden Wonders, Charlie Camp Rustic
Furniture, John Waller Underwoodsman and J Martin Rustic Garden Furniture
are all scheduling open days and demonstrations throughout the Wood
Season. See programme
The
Miller, the Framer and the Chainsaw Sculptor join forces for their Open Day at Dryhill Sawmill on September
27th: Charlie Willment (mobile sawmiller & timber merchant), Bryan
Kinnear (traditional timber framer) and Andris Bergs (chainsaw sculptor)
will be demonstrating their skills. Includes a visit to a 3-bay timber
framed building with roof room. Free, booking essential, see programme.
Coppicers’ Question Time
at Wilderness Wood:
Chris Yarrow will lead an expert morning session to
introduce coppicing – what is it, how to do it, what to do with the
results. In the afternoon watch and ask questions of carpenters making
rose arches & garden furniture, pick up tips on making garden
constructions, have a go at cleaving chestnut and making roof shingles.
Booking essential, £12 per adult.
The Wood Season programme contains over 100 events and opportunities
relating to East Sussex Wood & Woodlands. The programme is available
online at www.woodnet.org.uk and you can request extra copies by
telephoning Tel: 01273 481441.
Free
Coppicing Information Signs
are
now available for all coppice workers. The signs explain the process of
coppicing to the public and are to be put up while you are working. The
signs will also be available on the Forestry Commission stand at WoodFair
2003. To request these signs please contact: Debbie
Bartlett, Tel: 01622 221565,
Mob: 07974 162045,
Email: debbie.bartlett@kent.gov.uk.
Calling all
Chair Makers
The International Symposium of Chairmakers will be taking place on 1st-3rd May 2004 at the National Arboretum at Westonbirt, Tetbury, Gloucestershire. Chairmakers interested in exhibiting please contact:
Chloe Darling, Tel: 01285 642476 Email: chairsin2004@aol.com Full details of the event, including workshops, speakers and demonstrations at: www.chairs2004.org.uk