Autumn 2016 | |
Bere Alston Scouts attending a Woodland Craft Workshop on 30 October 2016. | |
Andy's stall at the Tavistock Goosey Fair. | |
A circular firewood log-drying stack. | A steamer for bending chair parts. |
Chair-making Course September 10-15 2016 | |
Cleaving an Ash log for curved chair legs. | Shaping a chair leg with a draw-knife. |
Shaped chair legs and rungs. | Chamfering the ends of tenons on chair rungs. |
steamed back splats put on a former for bending. | Bent back splats on the former. |
Shaping the back splats. | Completed back splats. |
Shaping the rear chair legs. | Curved front chair legs completed. |
One side assembled. | Both sides assembled. |
Cleaning a mortice. | Mortices for the back splats. |
Fixing rungs and back splats to one side of chair. | Other side being fitted. |
Weaving an Elm bark seat. | Seat nearly completed. |
The completed chair. | Another style of chair made during the course. |
Stool-making Course August 20-22 2016 | |
Shaping the stool legs and rungs. | A set of rungs ready for drying. |
The rungs in the drying box. | Assembling a stool frame. |
Stripping elm bark for a seat. | Weaving a bark seat. |
Weaving a sea-grass seat. | A sea-grass seat complete. |
Workshop scene with stools nearly completed. | |
Elm bark stools completed. | A tall stool completed. |
Happy stool-makers at the end of the course. | |
Summer 2016 | |
Fitting cleft hazel rods to the end of the compost loo. | Thomas assembling a chair, assisted by Andy. |
Testing the joints! | Two sides of a chair assembled. |
Stripped Sallow bark for stool and chair seating. | Sallow logs after bark-stripping. |
A new plate and mug rack for the utility shelter. | White sheets installed in the workshop shelter to improve lighting. |
The start of another Green Woodwork Course. | Working away on the shaving horses. |
This is fun! | Pole lathe instruction. |
Pole lathe demonstration. | Giving it a try. |
Further instruction. | Good progress on the pole lathe. |
The products at the end of the day. | |
The very first 1-day Green Woodwork Course. | Ana using a draw-knife to make a spatula. |
Belen using a pole lathe to make a rolling pin. | Belen and Ana with their final products. |
A work bench for the workshop shelter. | Work bench with tool rack. |
Removing outer bark from a freshly-felled Elm. | Removing 1-inch strips of inner bark. |
Removing a 1-inch strip of inner bark. | Elm bark ready to use as stool or chair seating. |
Utility shelter viwed from upstream. | New clear roofing above the sink. |
First firing of the new clay oven and rocket stoves. | Fresh wood chippings for the utility shelter floor. |
Fitting more rafters to the utility shelter. | Fitting more rafters to the utility shelter. |
Spring 2016 | |
Two new integrated rocket stoves made from clay from the Sallerton Wood claypit. | The rocket stoves and oven with a timber-drying cabinet fitted on top. |
Arriving for another day's work in the wood. | The sink with its tap and pump (under the sink). |
The utility shelter, with solar panel. | Solar panel for generating power to drive the water pump that raises spring water to the sink. It also doubles as a shelter for the clay oven. |
Logs stacked in a coppice area. | Side-axe in use to make a small mallet for Thomas. |
Steve and Simon spoon carving. | Hook knife in use to carve out spoon bowl. |
Sallerton Wood sign-board in place. | Shelter with new wood stack windshield. |
Completed clay oven. | Completed clay oven with door. |
Easter Woodland Development Week ~ 26 March - 2 April 2016 | |
Mixing the cob for the new clay oven. | Justin and Joe preparing to join the 3-part ridge beam for the new workshop shelter. |
Chris fashioning chestnut stakes for the workshop shelter ties. | Lesley building the stone base for the oven with stones from the streambed. |
Bryony chipping brash for the track. | Jonathan and Elliot fetching clay. |
Morning ablutions in the woods! | The new table and benches in use. |
Hannah and Ed putting the second (insulating) layer of cob onto the clay oven. | Laura planing a chestnut plank for new entrance sign for the woods. |
Mixing up more cob (Andy & Thomas). | Simon with his freshly made tool benches. |
Justin making the sink stand and framework for cupboards. | Ruby, Jess and Lily try their hand at some green woodwork. |
The new workshop shelter complete with cleaving braces. | The completed workshop shelter from behind. |
The oven left to dry out a little before raking out the sand former within and shaping the entrance. | The sink on its new stand. |
One last cuppa brewing on the rocket stove before leaving the woods at the end of the week. | Thomas the happy young woodsman. |
Spring 2016 | |
Driving off with a trailer-load of chippings. | Track improvement with the chippings. |
Chipping the coppice brash. | Compost loo - the inside story. |
Using a draw knife to make a spatula. | Some completed spatulas. |
Bere Peninsula Coppicing Workshop ~ 28 February 2016Click here for a full report of the day's activities
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Jonathan and son Elliot delivering extracted poles for the bark strippers. | Hannah stripping bark. |
Making brash piles to be later chipped and then laid on muddy tracks around the woods. | Elliot trimming up some poles with a billhook. |
Ruby and Jess bark stripping poles using draw knives for new workshop shelter (with brand new tarpaulin for the workshop in background). | Bark stripping brigade. |
Ian sawing coppice. | Work party break for lunch. |
Jenny coppicing. | Extracting poles to use in a new shelter. |
Making the new benches for the utility shelter. | New table and benches in situ. |
Thomas supervising again. | Jane at the log stack. |
Winter 2015 / 2016 | |
Four completed shaving horses, ready for use on courses and community workshops. | |
A completed shaving horse. | A completed shaving horse. |
Shaving horse construction - legs ready to go. | Shaving horse construction - roughly-shaped bodies. |
Shaving horse construction - turned components. | Shaving horse construction - completed frames. |
Coppicing. | Coppice area. |
Compost loo access construction. | Compost loo access complete. |
A winter work party. | De-barking an Ash pole for the workshop shelter. |
Planting a Wild Cherry, supervised by Thomas. | The Wild Cherry plantation, 30 trees in all. |
A good day's work. | |
Sawing firewood logs with a new saw-horse. | Splitting the larger ones. |