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Introduction to Coppicing

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: 08 Mar 2025

: The Green Wood Centre

£95

Tutor: Tom Dillon

Coppicing is a woodland management technique that can be dated back to the Stone Age. To ‘coppice’ means to repeatedly fell dormant trees at the base (usually in late September to early March) and then allow them to regrow. Not only does this provide a sustainable source of timber, the root systems that have already developed in felled trees speed up the regrowth process, and make the trees less susceptible to shading (so that more light reaches the forest floor).

This course is the opportunity to spend a day in our small coppice woodland, learning how to safely and effectively cut, present, and process hazel coppice.

We will cover:

- Why coppice?

- How to set out woodland into manageable ‘coups’ 

- Planning the fell.

- Useful hand tools and techniques for cutting and processing coppice.

- How to present cut material effectively in ‘drifts’.

- How to increase coppice stock through replanting and / or layering.

- How to begin processing coppice rods into saleable products.

- How to extract coppice material & how to ‘leave’ the ‘coup’.