Timber!

East Lancashire wildlife trust have collaborated with Burnley borough council to deliver sessions that would teach people in the basic skills of arboriculture, horticulture, ecology, and gardening. Today we taught the volunteers on how to safely coppice trees. First I went over an induction with the volunteers on the safe usage of the saws we had provided and the techniques we would be using. I then showed volunteers on safe coppicing methods to minimise the risk of injury to themselves and the public. We then went over methods on how to safely delimb a tree and section the trunk. After showing them a demonstration I allowed the volunteers to work on trees themselves with supervision. We selected trees that were dead or may become a danger to the general public. We took 6 foot trunk sections back to the work van to store so that I could use them with the Friends of Clifton Farm volunteer session the following day. Each volunteer worked on a tree and gained useful knowledge in safe tree processing practices. The volunteers greatly enjoyed the session and felt more confident in performing tree work on their own.