Woodfuel Starter Kits Grow and Burn Process

Wood Fuel Starter Kits

Growing your own wood fuel Is today`s progressive approach of managing carbon emissions, with the ‘grow and burn’ process removing carbon from the atmosphere.

Managed correctly on a sustainable basis, wood fuel can be harvested as part of a constantly replenished crop. This is done during woodland management, coppicing or even as part of a continuous programme with the new growth taking up CO2 from the atmosphere at the same time as it is released by combustion of the previous harvest.

Our kits are freshly delivered direct from Hedging & Forestry UK and come in a range of sizes to suit all budgets and plantation sizes., By dividing your plantation into four sections and harvesting in rotation, you will have a ready supply of logs year after year, with the potential to substantially increase the plantation at little extra cost with life expectancy some thirty years later on.

Willow is the predominant species for SRC (short rotation coppice) and is already used in large scale wood fuel production for power stations, normally as wood chip. Automated domestic woodchip boilers are also becoming more popular. Both planting and harvesting the wood fuel crop is straight forward and can be done without specialist equipment if done on a small scale of up to a few acres. Harvesting is best balanced by dividing the coppice into four workable sections one year after planting to produce a four year cycle of coppicing, producing log sizes up to 2 to 4 inches in diameter, so no need for splitting. By harvesting in rotation you will have a ready supply of logs year after year.

A one acre plantation intensive wood producing logs or chips when harvested in quarter acre blocks will yield between 4 - 7 tonnes of air dried wood annually
Our Wood fuel Kits are of the hybrid willows used in commercial plantations and supplied as one year old rooted 60cm tall plants to enable easy establishment, ready for earlier coppicing just after one year from planting. In addition, we also include a percentage of Ash as "ash green or ash brown is fit for a queen with a golden crown" or "ash wet or ash dry a king or queen shall warm their slippers by" Kits come with full planting instructions and we are here to help and advise.

All are available for planting out during dormancy November to March Delivered Mainland UK

25 Sq. Mt Small Woodfuel Starter Kit All Inclusive Cost £87.58

Up to 0.1 to 0.15 tonne of air dried wood when harvested in quarterly blocks annually

Kit Contains

25 Sq Mt Polypropylene Ground Cover Sheet

50 Pegs to hold the ground cover sheet in place

85 Rooted Hybrid Willows 60cm Tall

15 Rooted Ash saplings

Planting and Harvesting Instructions

50 Sq. Mt Small Wood Fuel Starter Kit All Inclusive Cost £175.17

Up to 0.2 to 0.3 tonne of air dried wood when harvested in quarterly blocks annually

Kit Contains

50 Sq Mt Polypropylene Ground Cover Sheet

100 Pegs to hold the ground cover sheet in place

175 Rooted Hybrid Willows 60cm Tall

25 Rooted Ash saplings

Planting and Harvesting Instructions

100 Sq. Mt LargeWood Fuel Starter Kit All Inclusive Cost £334.29

Up to 0.4 to 0.7 tonne of air dried wood when harvested1n quarterly blocks annually

Kit Contains

100 Sq Mt Polypropylene Ground Cover Sheet

200 Pegs to hold the ground cover sheet in place

350 Rooted Hybrid Willows 60cm Tall

50 Rooted Ash saplings

Planting and Harvesting Instructions

Quarter Acre Wood Fuel Starter Kit All Inclusive Cost £1025.11

Up to 1 to 1.75 tonnes of air dried wood when harvested in quarterly blocks annually

Kit Contains

5 Rolls of 105 x 100 Mt Polypropylene Ground Cover Sheet

1000 Pegs to hold the ground cover sheet in place

1125 Rooted Hybrid Willows 60cm Tall

75 Rooted Ash saplings

Planting and Harvesting Instructions

Thereafter develop and extend your plantation year after year to suit your requirements by utilising Willow sets from your established plants

For those commercially orientated and used to ground cultivation / weed control we can offer any of the kits above without the Ground Sheet / Pegs

For those extending there plantations in subsequent years we will be pleased to offer the Ground Sheet and Pegs at Wholesale Prices

Due to the complexity of the tree planting project we offer we do not operate a shopping basket facility at this time and prefer to do business on a personal one to one basis.

Contact Project Manager Richard Thorpe

Tel: 01788 816611 Mobile: 07885 139755

If we do not answer your call please forward an E-mail to richard@landscape-uk.org.uk documenting your interest, with contact details so we can personally call you to discuss your requirements, alternatively contact Richard during an evening up to 8.30pm