Deer Fencing in Melksham

Posted on by Debbie Newman

Deer Fencing is usually 1.8m galvanized wire, which is very strong and lightweight.  No barbed wire on top.  It allows you to protect your trees and shrubs from being eaten or being used to rub up against.

We have recently installed just under 800m of 2m high deer fencing in Melksham for a field crop trial site to prevent deer browsing and impacting on the trial results.  In addition to the fencing, we erected 4 gates to match.

For details of the many other different types of fencing we erect, please see here

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Homeowner ordered to pay £21,000 proceeds of crime order for butchering a tree

Posted on by Debbie Newman

This link goes to The Times of 23rd March and concerns a homeowner in Canford Cliffs, Poole, who ignored a TPO (tree preservation order) on his 42-foot oak tree and instead he virtually destroyed it by chopping off 12ft-long branches – all for the purpose of allowing sunlight to the back of his property and on to his new ‘Juliet’ balcony.

So apart from ignoring the TPO and facing the consequences with the council of that; apart from what must have been an extremely dangerous operation to take down 12-foot limbs, the homeowner has been fined:

  • In what officials claim is the first case of its kind, a court has ordered the homeowner to reimburse the taxpayer the amount perceived to be the increase to the value of his £1M home, having cut down his tree. In this instance, the increase was found to be £21,000 and this is what he had to repay as proceeds of crime.
  • In addition, had to pay £15,000 legal costs
  • And the actual fine of £1,200
  • So a total of £37,200

Read the article here

 

 

 

 

Justin showing a large beech tree near Bath who is boss

Posted on by Debbie Newman

We spent a week dismantling decaying beech trees in Bath. They were leaning over a footpath and, having recently been surveyed, there was no choice but to dismantle and remove them and plant replacements. The timber will be used for firewood. We needed a team of 2 climbers, a groundsman with tractor and a 30-ton winch on the last day to fell the stems.
But, as you’ll see from the last three pictures below, the weather wasn’t always kind to us during the week!
Dismantling a group of decaying beech trees in Bath

Dismantling a group of decaying beech trees in Bath

Dismantling a group of decaying beech trees in Bath

Dismantling a group of decaying beech trees in Bath

Dismantling a group of decaying beech trees in Bath

Dismantling a group of decaying beech trees in Bath

Another day another 1000m post and rail job   

Posted on by Debbie Newman

Our job here was to replace an old, rotten post and rail fence which had served its time.  We removed the fence and replaced it with 1000m of new, creosote-treated timber post and rail fencing. This should last another 30 years.

See our pictures below both ‘during’ and the ‘nice and straight’ at the end…

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400m chain link fencing with 3-strands of barbed wire on top for Utilities company in Gillingham

Posted on by Debbie Newman

Following on from our hedge removal project in the summer, we now needed to erect the perimeter fence to the site for the utilities company. The site had been upgraded and expanded to meet the demand for new housing. We erected 400m of 1.8m chain link fence with 3 strands of barbed wire on top.

Chain link fencing Gillingham

 

 

 

 

 

The Protech creates 10-inch profiles for the concrete posts ready for the 400m of chain link fencing.

 

Site clearance in Westbury for next 2 weeks so needed the big toys to speed up the job!

Posted on by Debbie Newman

Linden Homes are building a new development at Westbury by the station. So as to avoid disturbing nesting birds we needed to cut and chip large volumes of scrub and over-mature thorn and hedging. This was cut to a height of one metre and chipped on site.

The next phase will be to winching up and removing the trees from the lake and reducing larger oak trees, along with fitting cable bracing.