1500m stock netting at Rollestone, on Salisbury Plain

Posted on 20 February 2020 by Debbie Newman

Not all tree-related work for us here at Conservation Contractors!

We’re still busy fencing away, and here was a stretch of 1500m stock netting to keep cattle in on 15-year posts with creosote strainers. On top of the HT stock netting, we put 3 strands of barbed wire.

In case you wondered, a strainer post is the corner post – the larger ones that take the strain and the load-bearing parts of the fence!

18 Feb 2020

See some other examples of the different types of fencing and gate work we undertake…

500m rolls of Tornado HT8/80/15 stock netting near Marlborough

Posted on 5 December 20191 February 2023 by Debbie Newman

Our Protech Evo 2 made easy work of fixing 500m rolls of Tornado HT8/80/15 stock netting at Manton Downs nr Marlborough (not the racing yard neighbouring farmer).

The early morning picture is taken adjacent to the Ridgeway

Erecting Equinet fencing in Beckhampton

Posted on 27 November 20191 February 2023 by Debbie Newman

Loving winter… Here we’re erecting Equinet fencing for a racehorse yard in Beckhampton to replace an old stock fence

Fencing in Savernake Forest

Posted on 2 November 20191 February 2023 by Debbie Newman

Before you put the fence up you have to clear the path;
More in Savernnake this week with Alex Draper acting as pathfinder!

Pair of steel and chain link gates with a 6m span

Posted on 25 October 20191 February 2023 by Debbie Newman

Erecting these massive steel gates is the conclusion to work we have carried out for Wessex Water at their Gillingham sewage treatment plant over the last year. These gates are steel and chain link to match the fence which we constructed last year.

1800m stock fence replaced for Natural England at Parsonage Down, Warminster

Posted on 22 October 201930 October 2019 by Debbie Newman

A brighted morning today….

Our task here was to replace 1800m of old fencing with new standard stock fencing for Natural England. Our Evo Post Driver was put to good use!

More Tornado equinet and creosote timber fencing and paddocks near Marlborough

Posted on 18 October 201930 October 2019 by Debbie Newman

This is a continuation of work we have undertaken earlier in the year. The Equinet and creosote fencing is to keep the polo ponies in and the dogs out and the new paddocks are for yearlings and resting racehorses. Equinet is from the UK Tornado brand and the UK equivalent for Keepsafe which is a USA product.

Great job by Alex Draper, Dave Thompson and Adam Patterson.

See our post from last summer showing some of the 3,500m of post and stud rail we erected to make the side fence to the racehorse gallops.

Replacing 250m post and rail

Posted on 27 August 201915 September 2019 by Debbie Newman

We replaced 250m for a local client this week erected by Tristan Lenny Warden Gordon Bottomley with help from Tad and Kieran.

And then back to our 19k meters job within the Savernake Forest.

Cattle handling unit at Savernake Forest

Posted on 14 August 2019 by Debbie Newman

New cattle handling unit constructed for the project to reintroduce cattle to Savernake Forest. The handling unit is part of the same fence project as posted before and we are just about to start another pen consisting of 10,000m of fencing!

See our fencing page for details of our other projects.

Manton Downs Stud Rail Project

Posted on 11 July 201911 July 2019 by Debbie Newman

This is an ongoing project running over several months.

Here we show Dave’s video featuring some 3,500m approx of post and stud rail we erected to make the side fence to the racecourse gallops. This took us about 10 days to complete.

We then needed to add a number of 5-bar timber gates and some additional fencing to ensure the horses can be safely secured. You’ll see a couple of the gates we painted white which was in keeping with them being at the side of the gallops.