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Issue 71, Summer 2008
Classified Advertising: Round Timber for Sale Round Timber Wanted Sawn Timber Timber Processing Services Wood Fuel Fencing, Horticultural & Garden Furniture & Finished Products Timber Buildings & Architecture Coppice/Woodland Management Equipment & Machinery Courses & Training Jobs & Opportunities Events & Meetings Publications & Websites Plus news, information & features
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Promoting the sustainable production and use of local timber in South East England The sawmill at English Woodlands Timber near Midhurst, West Sussex. See our centre section for a feature © Woodnet 2008 on the selection and milling of timber for framing and construction.
Copy deadline for Summer issue: 1st August 2008 www.woodlots.org.uk WoodLots: Promoting the sustainable management of woodlands in the South East and the production and use of local timber & wood products. Welcome to the Summer edition of WoodLots Available in East Sussex, West Magazine. Following the Timber in Structures workshop and exhibition at the Sussex, Kent, London, Surrey, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Woodland Enterprise Centre this June we are running a feature on the use of Oxfordshire, Berkshire locally produced timber in construction. We look at a number of businesses and Buckinghamshire involved at different points in the local supply chain. Information & networking for local Norman Guiver, the Chairman of the Carpenters Fellowship, discusses how timber producers, wood users and all editor’s comment the correct selection and milling of timber for green oak construction can related organisations & businesses. enhance its properties for the framer and maximise its value for the producer. Current issue and back issues available at: www.woodlots.org.uk Also in this issue we have news items on the local timber Producers Group (page 4) and Gervais Sawyer writes about a new website that has been Subscription: see page 31 or www.woodlots.org.uk established to give careers guidance for the timber industry (page 7). Display Advertising: available at Our next issue will be timed to be distributed just before the 2008 Weald competitive rates in both full colour Wood Fair at Bentley Wildfowl & Motor Museum so if you have any relevant and black & white. See page 30 items or advertising please let us know. Distribution: 1900+ recipients through- Dan Cope. out the South East 4 times a year
WoodLots Editor Send your advertisements and requests for WoodLots to the Editor: Weald WoodNet The Woodland Enterprise Centre, Hastings Road, Flimwell, East Sussex, TN5 7PR Tel: 01580 879552 Fax: 01580 879547 Email: [email protected] Web: www.woodlots.org.uk
Selecting and preparing Larch Copy deadline for next issue: thinnings for a Timber in Structures Workshop at the Woodland Enter- 1st August 2008 prise Centre, Flimwell in June 2008. Printing: www.ghyllprint.co.uk 2 For further details see page 9
Workshop & Office Space at Woodland Enterprise Centre, Flimwell
90m2 B1 timber workshop units & office space available in woodland setting on A21 on the East Sussex/Kent border. Suit woodland & rural businesses looking to purchase/rent in high-quality sustainable construction promoting woodland industry & services Further details from David Saunders 01580 879552 [email protected] WoodLots: Promoting the sustainable management of woodlands in the Workshop South East and the production and use of local timber & wood products. Contents & Office Space Available in East Sussex, West at Woodland Enterprise Centre, Flimwell Sussex, Kent, London, Surrey, 2 Editor’s comment Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, 90m2 B1 timber workshop units & office Oxfordshire, Berkshire 4-7 News space available in woodland setting on and Buckinghamshire A21 on the East Sussex/Kent border. 4-8 Display Advertising Information & networking for local 9 Chilterns News/Timber In Structures Suit woodland & rural businesses looking to purchase/rent in high-quality timber producers, wood users and all 10-11 Timber In Structures Feature sustainable construction promoting related organisations & businesses. woodland industry & services Current issue and back issues 12 Display Advertising available at: www.woodlots.org.uk Further details from David Saunders 13 Round Timber For Sale Subscription: see page 31 01580 879552 or www.woodlots.org.uk 13-15 Round Timber Wanted [email protected] Display Advertising: available at 15-16 Sawn Timber competitive rates in both full colour 16-17 Timber Processing Services and black & white. See page 30 17-19 Sustainable Wood Fuel Distribution: 1900+ recipients through- 19-21 Fencing, Horticulture & Garden out the South East 4 times a year WANTED 21-22 Furniture & Finished Products Send your advertisements 22-23 Timber Buildings & Architecture Sweet Chestnut Logs and requests for WoodLots to the 23-26 Coppice/Woodland Management Preferably coppice grown, 8 inch (200mm) top diameter minimum, Editor: Weald WoodNet 2.4 meters long, straight, NO SHAKE AT ALL, no rot or brown stain. The Woodland Enterprise Centre, 26-28 Equipment & Machinery Required all the year round for laminating, Hastings Road, Flimwell, East 28-29 Courses & Training £50 per tonne at roadside Sussex, TN5 7PR 29 Jobs & Opportunities/Publications Tel: 01580 879552 30 Events & Meetings INWOOD DEVELOPMENTS LTD Fax: 01580 879547 The Woodland Centre, Whitesmith, Email: [email protected] Lewes, East Sussex Web: www.woodlots.org.uk 30-31 Subscription & Advertising Information 01825 872 550 Copy deadline for next issue: 32 WoodNet Training Information 1st August 2008 www.in-wood.co.uk Printing: www.ghyllprint.co.uk Manufacturers of glue-laminated structural timbers & cladding 3
Workshop & Office Space at Woodland Enterprise Centre, Flimwell
90m2 B1 timber workshop units & office space available in woodland setting on A21 on the East Sussex/Kent border. Suit woodland & rural businesses looking to purchase/rent in high-quality sustainable construction promoting woodland industry & services Further details from David Saunders 01580 879552 [email protected] Training at W.E.C this Autumn. A full list of the courses WoodNet offers can be found on page 32. 4HE .%7 MAGAZINE FOR ANYONE 7OODLAND #RAFTS 4REES 7ILDLIFE "USHCRAFT %NVIRONMENT
3UMMER3UMMER aa th WHO LOVES TREES AND WOOD Beginners Fungi Walk, SATURDAY 4 OCTOBER 2008 ST # ENTURY 'REEN 7OOD -IKE !BBOTT MAKES A Woodland Enterprise Centre, Flimwell MODERN SHAVING HORSE Wildlife & biodiversity 2ECYCLING PLYWOOD 7). -AKITA CHAINSAW 10am – 1pm. With Bryan Bullen. Cost of course £20 Green woodworking & courses Join us for a walk in the woods, and learn to identify the Social & community forestry principal fungi groups present at this time of year as well as the individual species names of the more common Timberframing & building Woodfuel and charcoal making mushrooms and toadstools. Although not intended as a 4HINGS TO DO 7OOD &AIRS7OOD