Two World Championships, One European Championship and Five UK Championships

APF 2024 The UK’s Largest & Most Exciting Trees & Timber Show is Coming To Town

On the 19/20/21st September APF 2024, the UK’s largest and most exciting Trees & Timber Show comes to Ragley Estate, Alcester.  300 Exhibitors and 25000 visitors will be welcomed to this biannual event, back at Ragley Estate for the seventh time.

There is an outstanding, unique and exciting array of top class competitions to watch including:

The Husqvarna World 25m Poleclimbing Championships, the A W Jenkinson and Tilhill European Chainsaw Carving Championships, the British Open Fencing competitions for speed fencing and traditional fencing, the Richard Court Forestry Engineering and Coombes Forestry UK Forwarder Driving championships, the Pfanner and Teufelberger UK Team Tree Climbing Challenge, the British Open Lumberjack Championships and the famous World Log To Leg pole lathe turning championships.

Entries are now open for the APF UK Team Climbing Challenge, the World poleclimbing championships and the UK Forwarder Driving championships.

The event offers a host of great spectator and have-a-go opportunities.   Visitors will be able to test their head for heights and have a birds-eye view of the showground in the have-a-go tree climbing area, try their hand at axe throwing, basket weaving or rake making and take control of a huge timber horse.  They can test their skill with a chainsaw in total safety on the very latest Husqvarna VR chainsaw simulator.

The woodland crafts area has 30 craftspeople demonstrating a huge array of traditional skills.  Clogs to coracles, charcoal burning to rake making, four different types of basket weaving, wheelwrighting to willow weaving, dug out canoes to chair making.  Try your hand at pole lathe turning.  If you want to know what a Sussex Pimp is visit the crafts area!

More details and a daily programme of events is available on the website.  For more details contact:

Website: www.apfexhibition.co.uk

Email: [email protected]

Tel: 01428 723545