Processing the coppice

In the hazel coppice up near post 8, the sticks were waiting.  We just hadn't had time to process them all.

Undergrowth was beginning to cloak them in green

And out in the open the grass and cow parsley were growing up through the unsorted wood.

Well on Sunday before last our hard-working volunteers set to, cutting,  processing and sorting the coppiced hazel wood to make useful poles.  The unuseable material was made into a dead hedge between two rows of stakes.

Here's the team, less Alan the photographer and Peter A, who just can't stop working (see him sharpening stakes in the picture above).  

From left to right: Derek, Will, Eric, Phil, Andy and Peter B.