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We had recently won a contract to strip from site 450 tons of hazardous and contaminated sand used as a stop butt on a military firing range. After stopping bullets for years it was time to be replaced with new, along with some timber repairs while we were there.
All done while the ranges either side were live and active!
A recent tree survey showed that a large conifer growing close to a substantial property was too near for safety. We therefore dismantled it and removed all the timber to be reprocessed for biomass to feed a power station.
Another reminder from us about the importance of getting your trees surveyed and that they are your responsibility.
Here are two links to The Times and The Standard. They concern a celebrity interior designer facing a police investigation after a former soldier, explorer and tree surgeon(!) was crushed to death beside her £8m estate. He had been a passenger in a car travelling on the road alongside her estate when the tree fell on the car, killing him and insuring the other passengers.
Times: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/star-stylist-faces-inquiry-after-man-crushed-by-tree-rctqk0ztg
Standard: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/top-designer-faces-police-probe-after-falling-tree-at-8m-estate-crushes-exsoldier-to-death-a4078911.html
Aviva produce a very informative PDF entitled: 9001–liability for_hazardous_trees.pdf
Don’t forget that this is something Conservation Contractors can undertake for you; we’re here to help you manage your duty of care.
Check out our tree survey page on this website
Footpath gates erected at Tidworth as part of a larger fencing project to allow grazing and public access.
Our brief was to erect 500m of new barbed wire fence to allow grazing of cattle on chalk grassland to the rear of houses in Tidworth. We then needed to erect new footpath gates to allow access for walkers while remaining cattle proof at the same time. Jan 2019
We think this is our old Unimog still going strong with another contractor.
We sold it 5 years ago, to be replaced by a tractor for the mulcher, as we found the Unimog to be unsuitable
Dec 2018
You might have seen us last week clearing back overhanging trees in Bradford on Avon. We were along the riverside between the station car park and swimming pool.
For details of all our tree surgery work please see our website page here or search under tree surgery on this news page
Space was at a premium last week while removing and reducing a row of sycamore trees in Hartmoor Road Devizes
16 December 2018
This is now complete. Following a successful planning application approval, the brief was to build a 40 x 20m sand arena. The topsoil was removed and the site levelled with drainage and soakaway. Then a stone sub-base with a membrane underneath was laid, then a second membrane. Finally, the correct sand type was added along with post and rail fence and gates installed.
Here’s a picture of young Lukas dismantling the first of many 60-foot sycamore trees for St Mary’s Hospital in Bristol.
The project necessitated the trees being dismantled for the regeneration of the site into student accommodation.
For details of our other tree surgery work please see here
Something a little different in Poulshot:
Here we used a fifteen feet long telegraph pole for a gate post. The image shows the pole being driven in, and then we used it to hang the gate on.
