Description: Carnog Working Horses in Llanrhaeadr in Tanat Valley do sustainable horselogging, bracken bashing, training and demonstrating in mid and North Wales, Powys, Shropshire, and the Welsh Borders and Marches
For the eleventh year Carnog Working Horses are running more one day 'Introduction to Horse Logging' courses at the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) near Machynlleth on Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th March. The course will give you give a practical introduction to working with horses in low-impact woodland and land management. More information can be found on the CAT website .
We have been busy for the last few weeks extracting timber on this small farm woodland site. It's ideal to showcase horselogging as it's a very steep slope, thankfully downhill. Bluebell and Molly have been amazing and nimble, pulling an equal share. We will be writing up the project as a case study to show the costings of horselogging on such a site soon after we finish.
We have burnt off any Christmas excess with a hard start to the year, coppicing near the Wrekin. Although the trees were small it was a long, up and down extraction route, so the horses worked hard. The woodland owner is a wonderful craftsman and will soon be turning the wood, a mixture of hazel, rowan, holly and silver birch into woodland produce including bowls and spoons. (Photo: Neill Mapes)