Events and Training 2010
NEWS: Training courses in 2010 will be charged at the reduced rate of £100 per person. The Committee agreed to this reduction to make our excellent programme of interesting and varied training more available and affordable for members.
2011 Annual General Meeting will be on Saturday 14th May at Childer Wood, near Ledbury in Herefordshire.
Competitions will be held over the AGM weekend. Singles and pairs, stallion singles and pairs and the second year of the individual and team felling and extraction competition.
BHL Competitions 2010. Results. <<click here>>
Rules: <<click here>>
Training Courses 2011.
Mensuration and Marketing. Led by Pete Harmer and Andy White. July 16th in Childer Wood, 17th in Hall Wood, nearby. Will include mensuration of standing timber volumes for conifers and abbreviated tariff system for broadleaves. Discussions of quality, prices and marketing of timber. The course will follow through to felling and milling of sample trees to explore the finished timber and its quality. Can the earlier examination be borne out by such indepth analysis? This course will be invaluable for contractors evaluating stands of timber and will assist in pricing contracts. Cost £100 plus £20 towards cost of Booklet 39 and a tape (both required and normally costing £40). Enquiries to Pete Harmer on 01905 381081 or by email to sowerpaw@fsmail.net
Forestry First Aid, Equine First Aid and Emergency Farriery. A return of this popular and essential training. Get your First Aid up to date and consider what you can do if your horse has problems whilst at work. Autumn. Date to be confirmed.
Other events.
Stock Gaylard Oak Fair, Saturday 27th August.
Following on from the success of last year's BHL contribution and taking into account the demise of Pferde Stark we decided to have a larger event this year.
Main ring elements of the BHL competitions will be demonstrated. We will have a day long demonstration of horse logging, horses and equipment. We will also have horse and cart rides and offer deliveries/collections to all other demonstrators and exhibitors as well as rides for the public.
Horses by invitation only.
For more information, contact Charles Buckler. <<click here>>
Training opportunites listed below, click on PDF:
Woodland Heritage is proud to announce this unique three-day training course.
An innovative new course linking ‘tree growers with wood users’, to broaden horizons and raise awareness by educating participants from the forest through to the workshop and beyond….
Supported by knowledgeable practitioners and eminent speakers from the industry,
Whitney Sawmill & Joinery Workshop
Whitney-on-Wye, Herefordshire
Based in the woodland, timber yard, sawmill and joinery workshop.
Numbers will be restricted to enable a ‘hands on’ and highly interactive approach, ensuring a learning opportunity of enduring quality.
Some subsidised places will be available to deserving and committed individuals.
For further information and an application form please contact:
Woodland Heritage
PO Box 168, Haslemere
Surrey
GU27 1XQ
Tel: 01428 652159
enquiries@woodlandheritage.org.uk www.woodlandheritage.org.uk
Patron HRH The Prince of Wales
Registered charity No: 1041611
We were delighted to host the FECTU Annual General Meeting in March.
Take a look at the blogs by Jean-Leo Dugast:
September 23rd to 24th will see us back at the APF forestry show.
This time it will be held again at Cannock Chase and we will be amongst some large pine on the inside of the Demonstration Circuit between markers 1150 and 1200. Come for a brew.
For more information <<click here>>
'Seeing is Believing"
In addition to our usual training events and Progress events, the BHL was active in demonstrating horse extraction on working sites.
In May, June, July and October 2008 we took part in the Borders Festival of the Horse and other festivals and shows in Scotland. Held at various venues in the Scottish Borders and in Lothian, we demonstrated horse logging on working sites.
We also demonstrated horse logging at a very special invitation only event in July in Cornwall hosted by HRH The Prince of Wales and The Duchy of Cornwall Woodlands.
This is part of a wider programme our Patron is organising to use horses in the Duchy Woodlands, evaluate the cost effectiveness of their use and demonstrate the effectiveness of their work.
For more information <<click here>>
Future Events
The British Festival of the Working Horse.
The BHL is organising a major working horse festival and celebration over the weekend of 7th, 8th and 9th September 2012.
This will feature horses working, demonstrating, competing and performing over two full days at a venue to be announced.
Planning has started so put the dates in your 2012 diary. Venue will be Windsor Great Park. A superb venue, great for the European visitors and their horses arriving by ferry and also great for those flying in to Heathrow or Gatwick. Pretty handy for the British Teams being well placed for access from the motorway network.
There will be horses from all over Europe as well as British teams.
All horses will be doing something - there will be none showing in hand or simply on show. We will have horse logging, farming, working in silviculture, working in the vines and the orchards, urban work, driving and all other aspects of horse work as well as ring events and horse spectacles.
A true working demonstration of the varied roles that horses perform now and will do in the future.
Absolutely not to be missed!
<<click here>> for more information
The BHL is launching a new venture at its Progress Events and other get togethers.
A harness/equipment and other tools 'Bring and Buy'.
If you have any items of equipment you want to sell, bring them along
for potential buyers to see.
Items can be notified on the web site and in the newsletter (useful
for larger items).
HRH The Prince of Wales presenting the BHLWMA Trophy in 2007. 2009 results? <<click here>>. Ready for the next entry? Closing date end of September 2010 and covers the period 2008 to 2010.
Troupe Jehol
Ploughing with a pair of stallions
Chariot Racing