| Our Background |
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I served my apprenticeship in the late 1960’s as a woodcutting machinist in the City of London during which time I spent many days on a drill making pellets, as well as sawing wedges and glue blocks. During the last month of my apprenticeship my old foreman suggested to me that I could make a commercial living from pellets after all the time I had spent making them! 
Shortly afterwards luck smiled on me as I found a machine (originally built for the Sheffield tool handle industry) which was suitable to make pellets and also had the opportunity to rent a unit in a local builders yard, then was just a matter of putting in the hours.
I must thank my many friends in the timber trade for their help and faith in me during those early years of cross grain pellet turning. Alan F. Richins |