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Southern Counties Auctioneers
Southern Counties Auctioneers
In case you’ve forgotten some of what we do, we’ve taken a 30-second promotional slot with Southern Counties Auctioneers. If you’re attending, watch out for the screen with the ads. It will be shown in Salisbury and Cirencester.
April 2023
Justin showing a large beech tree near Bath who is boss
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!
Another day another 1000m post and rail job
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…
400m chain link fencing with 3-strands of barbed wire on top for Utilities company in Gillingham
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.
The Protech creates 10-inch profiles for the concrete posts ready for the 400m of chain link fencing.
Range refurbishment at Bulford
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!
Dismantling a large conifer too close to the house, Lavington near Devizes
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.
The importance of Tree Surveys
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
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
Our old Unimog, maybe?
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
