Castle Rising Estate Coppicing. 21.08.23
Meeting at “Onion Corner”. For new members and a reminder to all volunteers a health and safety reminder and tree felling technique was demonstrated. John said the task was to continue the coppicing Hazel trees that had been begun by the group the previous two years. The Group were then asked to divide themselves into four teams to coppice mature and old Hazels. As demonstrated a V-shaped cut was made on that side of the trunk required to fall in a safe direction then a horizontal cut made on the opposite side to meet it. Once it had fallen, the side branches were removed and these used to make a wigwam around the cut trunks of the parent stump and the remainder piled to one side. At the end of the day, a number of large Hazel had beencoppiced and the remaining stems protected from the attention of Muntjac deer by surrounding them with the wigwams.
