Overlooking the Helford Passage is a beautiful woodland project with established deciduous woodland and new plantings of over 5,000 trees. Amazing! The managers of the site invited me down to do a charcoal burn with lots of overgrown hazel they had cut the previous Winter. With a fantastic view over the river we loaded the portable kilns and began the burn.
Each burn is different with its own problems and challenges (I think thats why I love charcoal burning so much :-)) and this was no exception with a lid collapse near the end and the ignition of gasses. However, all was under control quickly and the kilns were damped down and starved of oxygen. Thank God for experience!
In the end we got a good 70kg of charcoal from the kilns which I’ll be selling in the Summer season.
Thanks to Hilary and all the crew at Malpas nr Truro.
If you are interested in ordering charcoal or learning to make it yourself then please contact me at gregh@futuretracks.co.uk