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What happens after trees arrive in our yard..

After our clients cricket bat willow trees arrive in the yard, the trees are cut into lengths with chainsaws. Each length is then carefully divided up into the right sizes ensuring we optimise the full length of the wood, so waste is minimal. Each piece is then cut to the rough shape of a cricket bat.


They are now known as clefts and ready for drying in the kiln.


Once the milling and cleft making is complete the clefts are dried in our kiln for a period of 6 weeks where approximately 6 tonnes of water is removed from a kiln load of cricket bat clefts (2500 clefts) 


Raw humidity and moisture levels are monitored carefully to avoid cracks, splitting or other undesirable defects to the wood.


Clefts are then sold to cricket bat manufacturers supplying the worlds demand for cricket bats.


You can expect each tree to produce around 35-40 cricket bats!





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