Coppicing & Coppice Crafts

Coppicing and Coppice Crafts, which is beautifully illustrated with over 220 colour photographs and diagrams, provides you with everything you need to know about how to manage a coppice successfully and how to produce a wide range of woodland products. This book is essential reading for all those who are interested in woodlands and their management.

• Discusses how to find a suitable wood and the pitfalls involved
  Covers all the equipment, tools and resources that you will need, together with health and safety issues
• Clearly examines tax issues, the law and what you can and cannot do
• Analyses in detail all aspects of coppice management including pests and diseases, and how to plant a new coppice
• Examines the flora and fauna of the coppice and how it should be managed
• Pays particular attention to hazel coppice
• Considers a wide range of coppice woods and crafts and how the products are madé
• Discusses wood as a fuel, including charcoal-making, the best types of wood to burn, wood-fired boilers, woodchips, pellets, kindling, logs and much more
• Includes a useful glossary, bibliography and list of addresses

Soft back. 192 pages. Full colour.