by David Brown | May 18, 2022 | Products
Last winter our friends Bettina (of Upsticks Yurt Holidays) and Jeff were commissioned to make a large yurt to provide an indoor/outdoor space for a childcare nursery. They came to us in January looking particularly for the long poles they needed to create the roof...
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...
by Dylan Hardy | Nov 4, 2021 | Products
As a part of my new experience with broadleaf.wales I got the chance to take part in the Woodland Pioneers course 2021. Here I was given the chance to spend 4 days in the woods, each day learning and crafting a new greenwood product from scratch. It was amazing to be...
by Jeff Hughes | Sep 21, 2021 | Products
I had spent the last 25 years looking for a plank. A friend had once cut around a plank of ash the outline of a canoe paddle. It sat against his yard wall for years. I never found out if he ever finished it. I could clearly imagine it, taking a 3-dimensional shape and...
