Touch wood - wood and more wood:

  Visit to Touch wood – My Kind of woodyard

I was shown round by Mechelle Gibbons from Touch Wood who was really friendly and helpful in my search for wood for various projects we are undertaking at the Shed Touch Wood sells re-cycled wood which is my kind of wood

Mechelle, with Laura Kenny & Jason Kenny and their new table made of wood from the old Velodrome track

(sorry I don't know her work mate' s name)

Laura  Kenny

These cycling stars were at Touchwood to collect the table that had been made for them from the old racing track at the Velodrome in Manchester which Touchwood are


recycling. 

Laura & Jason Kenny

The track was made from Siberian Spruce. Maybe we should get a piece for the Men’s Shed, but at £30 sq metre? 


Mmmmm...would look good having a piece on the wall of our shop, especially if we could get a some ex-track with a coloured line on it 

Hard at work

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Touch Wood are a part of  Emerge, based at 

New Smithfield Market, M11 2WJ

                                                                              

                                            

Scaffolding boards

    
2400mm long x 70mm thick x220m wide

You can make raised beds with these but they don't last as long as sleeper   sized wood. Good for constructing things like the borders of vegetable plots

Sleepers  -  very thick ones

2400mm long x 115mm thick x240mm wide

Can also buy half sleepers
(1m to 12.2m long) 

Also chunky timber is available:
70mm thick x190mm wide, various lengths

Great for raised beds. Could make one that was two sleepers high (480mm) for about £85 and with that thickness of wood it would last a long time

Pallet Wood

At £1 per 2m slat, this is good value. It is a bit thicker than normal pallet wood and good quality.I bought 15 strips of the wood for the Mud Kitchen project, whilst I was there. 






Here I am ready to  drop them off  dropped them off at our Merseybankpremises ready for Bob to get to work on them

This is the mud kitchen which is part of  an outside play areas at Barlow Moor Community Centre where young children can play in a 'kitchen' with lots of mud, water, kitchen utensils and opportunities for plenty of splashing, pouring, squishing, mashing, stirring, and splatting! It is in a bit of disrepair so we are going to work on making it safe and looking better. The new wood will come in handy

Large Posts

These posts are 2400mm long x 95mm wide (square) and cost bout £5 each

They will be very useful when we build a rain shelter with a perspex top in the back yard of the Shed for the bike repair workshop we plan to open soon