The Worcestershire Woodland Project (WWP) offers participants an opportunity to experience working in an outdoor woodland setting, learning new skills, building social skills and raising levels of confidence. The project aims to equip participants with vocational skills to use in the workplace whilst also involving people in conservation work and improving levels of physical and mental health and wellbeing through the use of social forestry. Activities range from coppicing, weaving fences, pole lathe wood turning, cooking on camp fires to walking through the woodland learning the history and dynamics of the woodland environment. Our base camp is in Churchill Wood, Spetchley. Materials are sourced from the wood itself.







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Saturday, 29 October 2011

Pole Lathe

Participant having a go on the pole lathe. A pole lathe is a traditional wood turning lathe. This ancient device has been used for centuries and was a popular Viking tool!
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Traditional fence

Gary constructing a rustic park pale fence. These are traditionally used in parks to keep deer out. The wood was sourced at the camp base in the Wyre Forest. It was split by hand using a method called cleaving, using a tool called a froe and constructed using traditional methods. It looks fantastic.

A froe. 

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Traditional tool demo



Chris Atkins demonstrates the use of the Millers Falls Boring Machine. Which is far from 'boring'! This rare tool hails from Massachusetts, USA. It helps us to create angled bore holes.
Some of the group learning about the traditional hand tools and techniques.
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