Quickthorn

It tends to be a mixture of ash and hazel, dave, mainly hazel. I've been cutting in a wildlife trust reserve, which is a source of good material, as it's been managed for a while now. As usual with anything worth having, there's a lot of people interested in it, so I've been restricted to 1/3rd acre for the last few years. I'm going to try locally in the new year, but my experience of local woods is that a lot of the coppice is a bit poor, as the gamekeepers cut tracks through it, and the people in control of it are pretty greedy. Some people round here seem to prefer stuff to fall over and die rather than sell it for anything less than top dollar.

Is there much coppice on your estate? On the wildlife trust sites, they tend to get all sorts of wildflowers etc. on the newly cut coupes.