Allee’s Forestry - In November 2011 we celebrated our 1st full years of trading.
Thank you to all our customers throughout this first exciting year, we are going from strength to strength.
We have developed from our initial business idea that was to develop a Bio Mass market, unfortunately the opportunities for this have been not profitable we are still working towards this, but have shifted our focus.
Now with all of our team fully trained in felling techniques and low impact extraction methods we are focusing on Felling, Thinning and Ride Maintenance. These then became the main activity throughout the summer and have provided a superb solution to utilising felled timber to its maximum. Some of the prime timber we fell, enters the Oak furniture market place, either we plank it and market our own Oak furniture, or it is sold into the commercial market place. Oak thinning’s and Lop and Top, this has proved to be a great product for us, going into the ever growing Firewood market place, or into our own Charcoal Kiln. From ground zero we have now sold out over 2.5 tonnes of charcoal which would be over 10 tonnes of wood, all of the charcoal produced this year is sold and have forward orders on our books for early 2012.
Starting in the middle of May we will be producing "Charcoal" from the smaller of the woody products we have harvested over the past month's the ride maintenance thinning’s and some Oak Lop and Top.
We have one Kiln that takes roughly 48 hours to fill burn and empty of charcoal, this is situated at our depot deep in the heart of Hazelborough Forest. We supply this wholesale to an excellent selection of suppliers ensuring that at no time this product travelled more than 15 miles to get to your car boot! Our Charcoal is stocked at these local sites :- Crofts Stores, Silverstone, Paynes Nurseries, Blakesley Stores and Bell Plantation on the A5 with more sites looking to take this premium charcoal in 2012
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Recover….With our investments in low impact machinery, to support our “Manual” recovery process, this will take quite a time, if you visit the woods you will hopefully slowly see the recovery process, as our stacks of timber grow. We will also at the same time, work to remove the damaged Oak, Ash and Birch saplings that have been wind blown or split. We will utilise a maximum of 80% of the materials, leaving standing, fallen timber of various sizes to provide a good habitat for the wildlife.
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Recycle….Once the ”Bio Mass” is recovered we look to market this on. Some of the wood is in “Prime Condition” some is very much not. The prime wood we will grade into Softwood and Hardwood, sized for home log fires, which we will bag up, or store for delivery. In delivering we wish to remove from you the problem of collecting heavy, awkward and wet bags. So we will arrange a regular weekend delivery service, direct to your “Wood Store” these we can build for you! made from the best of the recovered wood.
As we develop our market we will invest further in the production of wood fuel pellets, these are proving to be an extremely economical way of utilizing the wood processing industries by products. The local timber merchants, the local tree surgeons and us, all produce residue and chippings, these can be efficiently turned into “pellets” for burning to produce heat and power.
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Do visit these web sites to find out more.
www.pelletcentre.info
www.nef.org.uk/logpile
There are grants around to convert your domestic systems to reduce your costs and carbon footprint. Look out for our teams working in the Hazelborough and Whistley sections over the coming months.
Thank you for visiting www.allees-forestry.co.uk
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