Berlin Woodlot Sustainable Harvest Plan

Used in

• Chapter 1 The Rhythm of the Hearth

In the Numbers

Ground for a household Firewood for the house

The rows that check it

• 6 confirmed
• 3 amended
• 1 marked for safety

• H7 amended Safety Do not spread stove ash on the woodlot or garden: it carries metals from the city's air
• H22 confirmed Coppice: stumps resprout, 20-year cycle, stools live centuries; Mittelwald with oak standards; 400,000 ha in 1927 to 5,000 now
• H27 confirmed 3 to 5 hours per solid cubic metre to fell, split, stack; 30 to 50 hours a year, October to February
• H28 confirmed Beech forest 10 to 11 m³/ha/a; coppice on sand 7; a hectare and a bit or a hectare and a half per family; 90 to 115 ha per village of 300
• H30 amended A coppice takes twenty years to yield; a flat insulated to post-2009 standard needs a third of the heat; straw in the roof and felt in the frames cut wood from 16 Ster to 6
• H38 amended Fell October to February by law; cut stools a hand above ground on a slant; cross-cut to 33 cm; split while green
• H39 confirmed Seasoning: one summer for ash and birch, two for beech and oak; cracks, hollow knock, no hiss; 20 % water; a third of the felling weight lost
• H40 confirmed Coppice for a village of 300: about 100 ha hornbeam and field maple, 1.5 ha per household, up to 100 oaks per ha, 20 parcels of 5 ha, fence 3 years
• I42 confirmed Coal about 1 kg/h at light work; charcoal nearly the same value by weight, a tenth as dense; a day about 100 litres or 12 to 15 kg charcoal, 50 to 60 kg wood; a village smith 200 …

In the Index

Fire and fuel Tools and their making Wood, willow and the cask Berlin and Brandenburg