by Dylan Hardy | Apr 16, 2022 | Woodland Management
At Bron haul we are nearing the season in which to control the grey squirrel population, though we have had an early start because of the British Red Squirrel LANTRA course that David has begun to provide. On the course we went through different control methods and...
by Ruth Pybus | Mar 17, 2022 | Woodland Management
Basal area is a measure of how well stocked your woodland is. If you imagine looking down on a hectare of your woodland from a hot air balloon having removed all your tree canopy and trunk down to 1.3m (forestry’s ‘Breast Height’ above the ground), you would see...
by Dylan Hardy | Jan 31, 2022 | Products
While I’m at Bron Haul we’ve taken on a timber framing project, using partially wood grown in our own woodlands. The larger pieces were sourced from a local mill but for the smaller ones we felled some of our larger larch trees and had them taken to the mill for...
by Dylan Hardy | Dec 28, 2021 | Products, Woodland Management
This season at Bron Haul we have been thinning one of our older blocks, (around 25 years old). Having passed my chainsaw ticket for felling trees upto bar length with Keith Webber, I have been putting my directional felling to the test. With the continuous cover...
by Matt Rowlands | Nov 26, 2021 | Products
I picked up this old drawknife online for a few pounds. It was a little tatty and dull but the main issue was the handles and I thought I’d take the opportunity for a bit of practice on my new (old) lathe. With a bit of tugging the old handles came off – the...
