APF 2024 Welcomes its 100th Exhibitor

The Ragley Estate is fast becoming the regular home of the APF, the UK’s leading exhibition for the forestry, woodland, arboriculture, fencing, trees and timbers sectors.

Preparations are well under way for the 24^th exhibition with the 100^th exhibitor confirmed. Exhibition Secretary, Ian Millward commented “We are delighted to welcome back longstanding exhibitor Lamberhurst Engineering to APF 2024. It is fantastic to already have over 100 exhibitors booked in for next year twelve months ahead of the event. It emphasises that the APF show is still regarded to be the best place to sell machinery and equipment into the arb, forestry and fencing sectors and we look forward to seeing all our 2022 exhibitors return”.

APF 2024 is expected to attract over 300 exhibitors and 25,000 visitors: 90% of which are reportedly trade professionals working in the industry. Booking forms are available on the website and the first APF 2024 site meeting, for new exhibitors wishing to see the site and choose a stand, is on Wednesday 4^th October at 2pm at Kings Court Hotel, Alcester B49 5QQ.

An estimated £80 million pounds of machinery will be on show. The 2000m demonstration circuit will apparently show machines working in a realistic setting. With exhibitors on both sides of the circuit that is over 2½ miles of working machinery.

The seminar programme features figures from the industry speaking on topical issues of the day including plant health, pest and diseases, technology, safety and training, marketing, wood fuel and wood processing. It covers everything that is trees or timber related.

The following events and competitions will take place at APF 2024.

The Husqvarna World 25m Pole Climbing Championships
The Tilhill Forestry and A W Jenkinson European Chainsaw Carving Competition
The British Open Fencing Championships
UK Forwarder Driving Competition
British Tree Climbing Championships
The UK Lumberjack Championships
Horse Logging
The Forest Worker Zone with drop-in sessions on subjects affecting the forest worker
The Arb Worker Zone with demos of the latest equipment and techniques and technical workshops
The World ‘Log to leg’ pole lathe turning championships
Fencing demonstrations
Extensive traditional woodland crafts area with many have-a-go opportunities
Bio Security, Bio energy, wood fuel and tree health seminars
Seminars and advice on forestry education, training and careers

80,000 Hours

That’s a remarkable amount of work hours for a single machine, the Norcar 600 owned by Erkki Rinne is taken well care of, it even has the original Diesel engine.
Kieran Anders Forestry

Kieran Anders is a forestry contractor working in the lake district. His work involves hand cutting and extracting timber using a skidder and tractor-trailer forwarder.
Promoting safety in the workplace

It is not possible to eliminate chain shot, but there are simple steps that can be taken to reduce the risk.
Glasfryn Fencing and Sawmill

Arwel takes great pride in the fact that the mill has no waste whatsoever, “the peelings are used for children’s playgrounds, gardens and for farm animals in barns in the winter and the sawdust has multiple uses in gardens and farms as well.
Keeping Timber Hauliers Safe

Timber hauliers need to encourage young blood in, and also look after the hauliers we have, we need make the sector a safe and positive place to work.

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