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Dave and his team erected 2000m of stock netting on the edge of Salisbury Plain earlier in Novemberso as to stop people walking into the dangerous area of the Plain.
The job needed our post drivers and a good eye by Alex and Mike who did a great job… bullet straight!
Please see details of the different types of fencing carried out by Conservation Contractors here
Removal of 30 cherry trees, Marlborough
Rich, Geoff and Simon spent a week at Temple Estate in Marlborough at the end of October. They undertook a variety of jobs which included reducing the number of trees on the driveway. The original planting had alternate lime and cherry trees, but now there was no longer space for both. So the decision was taken to remove the 30 cherry trees and their stumps so that the lime trees could thrive better.
More tree and general clearance work was also undertaken to make way for a house extension… See the avenue of limes below.
Tristan has been busy mulching
with the Seppi flail and reverse-drive Valtra…
Firstly a 6 ha site near Dinton around juniper bushes and then off to Dartmoor for more of the same the following day. The poor quality of video is due to the bullet proof window !!
Tristan then went on to Bovey Tracey in Devon – just east of Dartmoor for a site clearance before this became a tip.
We returned to Manton to check the health of an ailing beech tree using PICUS technology.
The PICUS Sonic Tomograph is used for non-invasive tree risk assessments in order to measure the thickness of the residual wall of trees with internal defects such as cavities or decay. See more information here.
We were concerned with the tree because of the large fungi brackets on one side. And what the assessment showed was that the tree was rotten in the middle and sadly had to be removed for safety reasons. It’s like giving the tree an MRI scan. Amazing bit of kit.
The lime tree had become unstable due to decay at the base so Rich and his team were called in to dismantle carefully…
We were accompanied by our friend Pierre over from France for a week to see how we do things this side of the channel – better of course!
For details of all our tree surgery services, check out our web page here
Removing a 70m conifer hedge in Bromham for PJ Dyke in mid-October was one of the projects we undertook.
The hedge was getting too large to manage and impacting on the roadside and will be replaced by a wall.
For details of our tree and hedge removal services please see our website here
We undertook 600m of 8-12ft high Beech hedge trimming at Manton, Marlborough. The hedge was around the formal gardens, with poor access and tender lawns, so all the work was done by hand with just a hedge trimmer; well four actually and using our MEWP where possible!
For details of our tree and hedge surgery capabilities please see our web page here.
Protech EV02 tracked self-propelled post driver – steep or wet ground conditions will be helped by the upgrading of our fencing machinery with the addition of a tracked self-propelled post driver from Protech, called the EV02. This will be a full spec machine able to carry posts and wire and make no mess or access steep terrain.
Currently being built and will be with us by the start of December this year.
One of our jobs this month; the before and after shots show that you can now really “see the wood from the trees”. This was undertaken for a longstanding client in Keevil, which started as a trimming job! Sept 2016
We’ve undertaken a variety of work here, which has included:
