Forestry & British Timber articles from June 2007

Forestry & British Timber archives from June 2007

CARBON SELF-INDULGENCE?(carbon credits)
June 5, 2007... In the eleventh century, Islamic forces blocked the path of Christian pilgrims to the holy shrines of Jerusalem. Pope Urban 2 set in train the Crusades, holy wars to promising, with a curiously modern irony, entry into heaven for those who...

LOGBOOK: TO LEAD CONFOR.(David Crichton )
June 5, 2007... Following the decision by its incumbent chief executive David Crichton to leave for pastures new, The Confederation of Forest Industries (ConFor) has announced it is looking for someone to fill the post. ConFor Chairman, Tony Willis,...

LOGBOOK: UKFPA takes to air waves.(Forest Products Association)(Interview)(Brief article)
June 5, 2007... With the fencing season now in full swing, there have been reports of shortages of fencing panels. As a result David Sulman, executive director of the UK Forest Products Association (UKFPA) took to the air waves to discuss the shortages. ...

LOGBOOK: BODGERS, BADGERS AND DINGLES.(wales woodland celebration 2007)(Brief article)
June 5, 2007... If you would like to know what a bodger does, or how to watch over a badger's sett or where your nearest dingle is the Wales Woodland Celebration could be just the thing for you. From May to December there will be hundreds of special events...

LOGBOOK: BSW invest in future.
June 5, 2007... Last year, BSW Timber purchased from Arjo Wiggins a 67-acre site on the shores of Loch Linnhe paving the way for a phased investment, relocation and expansion of their Fort William sawmill located opposite the site. BSW is to invest more...

LOGBOOK: Twynham extends Banyards' contract.
June 5, 2007... Twynham Housing Association has renewed and expanded its contract with horticultural company Banyards for grounds maintenance. Following a one- year trial contract of 70 social and sheltered housing areas in and around Christchurch, Dorset, the...

LOGBOOK: Changes at the top at James.(John Kissock and Michael Leslie resigns from James Jones & Sons Ltd.)(Brief article)
June 5, 2007... John Kissock and Michael Leslie have retired as joint managing directors of the James Jones & Sons Ltd, one of the UK's largest sawmill companies. Tom A. Bruce-Jones, non-executive chairman said: 'They have been executive directors of the...

LOGBOOK: American president.(Bill Bryson joined Campaign to Protect Rural England)(Brief article)
June 5, 2007... Leading author Bill Bryson is set to become the Campaign to Protect Rural England's (CPRE) new president, taking over from newspaper columnist and military historian Sir Max Hastings. The best-selling American writer, who lives in Norfolk,...

LOGBOOK: Wood production and trade figures.
June 5, 2007... The total value of wood product imports into the UK in 2006 was #6.1bn, of which #4.1bn was pulp and paper. This is just one of the statistics covered in the Forestry Commission's First Release 'UK Wood Production and Trade (provisional...

LOGBOOK: Fuel of information.(David Rogers as Woodfuel Information Officer)(Brief article)
June 5, 2007... There's a new face in charge of woodfuel in Dumfries and Galloway, with the appointment of David Rogers as Woodfuel Information Officer for Forestry Commission Scotland in southern Scotland. David is based in the Commission's offices in...

LOGBOOK: The Poplar challenge.(timber industry competition)(Brief article)
June 5, 2007... Woodworkers from all over the country are invited to take part in a free competition to construct something creative from a `kit' of poplar timber. In conjunction with the National Forest Company (NFC), the Poplar Tree Company (PTC) of Hereford...

LOGBOOK: 25 years' service.(Lawcris' as leading independent panel distributor)
June 5, 2007... This year Lawcris is celebrating serving the panel industry for quarter of a century and to mark the occasion, throughout the year, the company is aiming to raise #25000 to be shared between five UK charities - Leukaemia Research, the NSPCC,...

LOGBOOK: Uncovering Wales' hidden woodlands.(Reclaiming Our Forgotten Inheritance programme)
June 5, 2007... A beautiful natural woodland near Dolgellau is about to be re- discovered - as work starts on clearing conifers to allow native birch and oak to re-colonise the site. Cwm Hesian woods - the name, formerly 'Eisen' means valley of the lath...

LOGBOOK: New UKFPA president.
June 5, 2007... At the 'up-beat' agm of the United Kingdom Forest Products Association (UKFPA), Gordon Callander of James Callander & Son Ltd was appointed president, Tony Mitchell of Tulloch Timber (Nairn) Ltd was appointed vice-president and Gavin Davidson...

LOGBOOK: Squirrelpox in Scotland.(Brief article)
June 5, 2007... The news that the deadly squirrelpox virus has been confirmed in a red squirrel near Lockerbie has been described as a 'devastating setback' by the European Squirrel Initiative. The disease, which is lethal to red squirrels is carried by grey...

LOGBOOK: DWP: 20 years of co-operation.(DWP Harvesting )
June 5, 2007... The Directors of Aboyne-based timber group DWP Harvesting gave a reception recently for members and local sawmillers to mark twenty years of successful co-operation. Chairman Andrew Bradford told woodland owners that the formation of DWP...

LOGBOOK: Small voice has big say in the frame.(Lawrence Young and Jim Johnstone are appointed to Timber Frame Association)
June 5, 2007... The UK Timber Frame Association (UKTFA) has appointed Lawrence Young and Jim Johnstone to the Board. Lawrence Young is director of Young Black Industrial Stapling Ltd, a specialist fastening company set up in 1979. He will be responsible...

WOODWISE: The view from the sharp end.(forest management)(Personal account)
June 5, 2007... In which our monthly contracting contributor Nick Hilton of Woodwise Forestry* finds the workload is a bit like juggling - as long as you can keep all the balls in the air at the same time, you're doing fine! Last month I prattled on about...

NIGHT SHIFT AT THIRLMERE.
June 5, 2007... When Susan Burke parked alongside the unlit shores of Thirlmere late one winter evening, a star studded canopy glittered over the bulk of Helvellyn and the steep Armboth Fells - but she wasn't skywatching. As the road barriers went up and the...

NOT FOR PROFIT YET - WOODFUEL CATCHING HOLD?(Royal Forestry Society's seminar on forest management)(Conference news)
June 5, 2007... With the recent publication of the Forestry Commission's Woodfuel Strategy for England, the Royal Forestry Society timed its day's seminar on the current state of the woodfuel industry just right, writes David Taylor. Over two hundred delegates...

Hedging bets with trees.(importance and valuation of hedgerow trees )
June 5, 2007... Great Britain is one of the most tree-free countries in Europe - only the Irish Republic has a proportionately lower forested area. However, it is is still regarded as a `green and pleasant land' largely thanks to hedgerow trees which visually...

WOODCHIPPERS AND SHREDDERS: Practising what they preach.
June 5, 2007... Fuelwood Warwick Limited* is ideally placed within 14 hectares of woodland in Beausale, Warwick, which provides an excellent base for their forestry machinery business supplying firewood harvesters, sawbenches, log-splitters, sawmills,...

WOODCHIPPERS AND SHREDDERS: Energy efficient.
June 5, 2007... Mercia Energy Ltd (01788 843133) has installed biomass heating for Fuelwood in Beausale. Richard Slatem, managing director of Fuelwood, says that the demand and use of equipment for producing firewood and kindling machines, and sales of...

WOODCHIPPERS AND SHREDDERS: Prochip lay down the Gauntlet!
June 5, 2007... High sales figures of Schiesling woodchippers, after only seven months, exceed projections and expectations of both Schiesling and UK supplier, Prochip*, fuelling the latter's future plans for business development. Prochip's Mike Zarkos...

WOODCHIPPERS AND SHREDDERS: Brush up on your chippers.(Arbor Eater Brushwood Chippers Ltd)
June 5, 2007... 'We are passionate about recycling and volume reduction. We offer sound advice and good prices and look forward to being of service to you' - Arbor Eater. In the early 1980s, Michael Dalrymple, as Michael Dalrymple Developments, invented a...

WOODCHIPPERS AND SHREDDERS: JBM and Richard court.(JBM Machinery appointing Richard Court Forestry Engineering Ltd as dealers)
June 5, 2007... Richard Court Forestry Engineering Ltd*, based in Surrey, cover the whole of southern England and specialise in service and repairs of all arboricultural and forestry machinery. Their wide knowledge of this equipment has meant that the business...

WOODCHIPPERS AND SHREDDERS: French know-how.(Saelen Industrie)(Brief article)
June 5, 2007... Environmental specialist Saelen Industrie* offer a range of chippers and shredders which utilise a 'patented mixed rotor' which combines knives and hammers to shred branches and all types of organic waste. The Castor 13ER and 12 DR can...

WOODCHIPPERS AND SHREDDERS: A note on Practicality.
June 5, 2007... Practicality Brown Limited (PBL)* has been pioneering whole tree chipping in the UK since 1985, when they first trialled the concept of harvesting chip for Egger UK in Kielder. Over the years, PBL has evolved into a leading no-burn site...

WOODCHIPPERS AND SHREDDERS: Magnum Force.(Greenways purchasing grinding equipment from Continental Biomass Industries Inc.)
June 5, 2007... Since 2002, Greenways has specialised in the processing of wood waste and horse bedding material, which is then delivered for use as fuel. The company handles around 100 000 tons of material annually, so when the requirement arose for a...

WOODCHIPPERS AND SHREDDERS: Farmi at Large!(M Large Tree Services Ltd appointed as the distributor for farmi forest)(Brief article)
June 5, 2007... M Large Tree Services Ltd* has recently been appointed as Farmi Forest distributors for Ireland. Farmi Forest, a subsidiary of Normet Corporation, was founded in 1962 and has been one of the pioneers in developing and manufacturing forest...

WOODCHIPPERS AND SHREDDERS: Eager Beavers.(Company overview)
June 5, 2007... Beaver Plant* was established in October 2003 and over the last three- and-a-half years has developed rapidly into a nationally-recognised company with an enviable reputation for supplying first-class machines for sale and hire. This...

WOODCHIPPERS AND SHREDDERS: Chips with everything.(Blue Machinery supplying equipments and machinery to Shorts Group)
June 5, 2007... The Doppstadt AK-430K woodchipper, just one of the latest in the range supplied by Blue Machinery*, has recently become the recycling lynchpin of the Shorts Group's massive wood waste processing operations in Ascot. Contracted to produce...

WOODCHIPPERS AND SHREDDERS: High-capacity chippers and shredders.(Brief article)
June 5, 2007... Westcon* supply the Jenz range of heavy duty, high capacity chippers which can be pto-powered or self-driven. Mounted with a `Farmi' style crane, they give very high capacity due to mechanical loading and a conveyor feed. The two smaller...

WOODCHIPPERS AND SHREDDERS: A-Plant invest in Greenmech.(Brief article)
June 5, 2007... A-Plant* has taken delivery of over #200,000 worth of new towable and tracked woodchippers from Greenmech**. After 'an exhaustive analysis' of products available on the market, A- Plant has chosen the wheeled and tracked versions of...

WOODCHIPPERS AND SHREDDERS: The widest range to choose from?(evaluation of chippers distributed by Liston Equipments)
June 5, 2007... 'When it comes to chippers, Liston Equipment* probably has the widest range to choose from', the company's Dave Kendall told FBT as it is UK distributor for Carlton, Woodsman and Precision Husky. Carlton chippers are disc-style with high...