Coppicing: How trees regenerate 

YES!!! I just convinced a customer today to let me grow a line of trees until they are able to be coppiced in order to weave (with grafting) a living fence that can be chopped and dropped to feed the soil. It took me 20+ minutes to explain why it was important. This video is DENSE with information. I can't thank you enough for saving everyone's time in the future! Liked, subscribed, and currently waiting on popcorn for the binge-watching session of your channel.

This explains why growing up in se Utah, our landlady had a Black Locust tree, it had a big trunk,and very tall, but considering its native habitat is the midwest and southern states, where it rains more than out West, well my mom planted some tomatoes, radishes and squash and the runoff of the water, permitted that ol' black locust to coppice, my mom left two of the shoots and they grew quite big, I wouldn't be surprised if that black locust is still alive and thriving after 42 years of moving from there.

I use coppiced willow for weaving baskets and making hurdles and trellises for my garden.

Nice! Short, sweet and information rich. However over here in the UK fuel (wood, charcoal, whitecoal) may not have been the primary product of much coppice. Hazel coppice was common and very valuable, cut at around 7 years, so the desired produce was small diameter and used for a vast range of products from wattle room dividers and house wall sections to sheep hurdles, dry cooperage, crates and clothes pegs.

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Awesome video. Is it similar to the way the Japanese harvest trees as well? Your animator is PHENOMENAL.

I love this.

We can work with nature instead of against it! Great video. Hope this gains traction because the production quality is really good and I thought this was very interesting.

As long as the coppicing scale is not like the huge 10 hectare square x100 plots that people make with Pines to get a harvest each year. If it's on a much humbler scale I'm not necessarily opposed to it.

Works for willow trees too

How weird, I was just talking about this practice the other day. My question is: How can certain (wild) species thrive only by human intervention?

People don't coppice well. Don't ask me how I know.

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Also charcoal 🧐

Does coppasing make any sense in a city enviroment on a hot climate?

This will work with cherry oak and gum but not on trees like pine

Is Paula Pant narrating this? Sounds like her

If a society requires huge amounts of dimensional lumber for building purposes, then coppicing doesn't make a lot of sense. If what one is searching for are smaller diameter hardwood logs suitable for growing mushrooms, fence posts, making charcoal, barrel staves, tool handles, etc, then large scale, coppiced, mixed species, hardwood forests that are an integral part of a silvopasture system with multiple domesticated animal livestock species utilizing the coppiced forest throughout the 4 seasons makes eminent sense. The problem that I see with current day European countries where large hectare historical hardwood coppiced forests have existed for centuries is twofold. First, is that modern-day humans want *EVERYTHING, RIGHT NOW,* and coppiced hardwood trees aren't going to regenerate a new crop of harvestable logs in anything less than 8-20 years. Which means that a farming business that requires a dependable yearly income from a coppiced forest is going to require a sufficient number of hectares/acres planted sequentially across whatever time span that a particular tree species requires between harvests. Plus, a substantial amount of additional hectares/acres for the necessary wriggle room to account for seasonal weather irregularities such as too much precipitation or drought. Second is that there seems to be a worldwide anti-humanity, anti-historical farming, anti-Green Revolution farming movement in place that is tightly aligned with an anti-capitalist, pro-Marxist, pro-Socialist, pro-Communist, let's put right every single historical wrong movement where anything from the historical past is viewed as wrong, unjust, oppressive, patriarchal, etc. As a result of this 3 decades long push against the past, the large hectare historical coppiced forests in Europe are under attack as the Social Justice warriors attempt to redistribute those forest lands into hundreds of tiny plots of severe hectares each.

What's chesnut eh

Modern forestry seems to be the main culprit here, hmm.