Well, wild wood was rubbish so........

[coppiceer]

You're right, it's good to see a programme about people working in woods, my only reservation is that this has been such a shabby effort. If they'd had the motivation to make a programme of quality, such as How Britain Worked - Channel 4 i think they'd have had nowt but praise.

 

Countryfile had an episode a couple of weeks back featuring Ben Law - http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/general-chat/49783-countryfile.html - you must've missed it

 

Exactly.

[Brick100]

It was a good programme to a point, could have been made better, but produced on a budget.

 

Informative easy watch, better than x factor etc etc.

[Mark Lutman]

yup agree with you too,learnt alot,will now also invest in some spikes for my felling too...and maybe get a clip in ponytail,just to look the part of course...

[Brick100]

Would love to have the time to live/work like that. We could do with more in a similar vein, may be visiting companies that undertake small and large forestry management to provide a balanced view. We can but hope.

[woodland dweller]

Just wanted to add a couple of points:- First to raffle you say money was not the point but i thought that was the point of the program, Each week the voice over would say how over a year he was trying to make the woods pay for themselves. So he cut down some trees and got around £250, he made and sold some charcol and made around £250 and sold some bean sticks and made around £250 so in the first year for all the hard work he made £750 before expenses. Secondly to breezeblock he was out of the rat race for a year and after i bet receiving a good wack from the program makers he's back in the rat race writing again. If he was giving up his life to do it full time like say Ben Law then i would respect him more. And thirdly to Bearded munch although those chairs were a work of art do you know anyone who can afford to pay £500 for a chair. No one i know for sure. After all my gripes about the program i will miss the series now its finished.