Using the wood from improvement felling for assembling small wooden structures

Abstract

This paper reviews the experience of using wood from thinning recreational plantations ("improvement felling" to create small wooden structures. Because volumes are small, removal and processing of wood from thinning, in particular cuttings from landscape maintenance, is uneconomical. In addition, skidding felled trees away can easily damage the trees left to grow. It is therefore both more economical and environmentally better to use of cuttings for the manufacture of wooden sculptures, arbours, rest areas and other small wooden structures. Flawed residues and small cuts are best converted into chips on the spot, and then used to fill the footpath network or serve as mulch around the trunks of standing trees. © 2018 Increasing the Use of Wood in the Global Bio-Economy - Proceedings of Scientific Papers. All rights reserved.