Back again is routine tree works at The Hall Estate Bradford on Avon to reduce trees and some safety works on the boundary and by the railway line
Tag: Bradford-on-Avon
Clearing back overhanging trees in Bradford on Avon
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
Tree works at The Hall Estate, Bradford on Avon
Tree works, tree reduction, tree removal all undertaken today.
Rich, Trevor and Steve B removed overhanging roadside trees at The Hall Estate, Bradford on Avon. Then it was into their formal gardens for reduction and deadwood removal works.
And these pictures were from our last day at The Hall Estate
To link to our tree surgery page on our website please see here, and for our tree surveys page here.
April 2018
Installing hardstanding for business in Bradford-on-Avon
This week we have been installing a hardstanding for Anthony Best Dynamics at Bradford on Avon
Sept 2017
Weed control on a 100 ac Solar Farm Trowbridge
Here Johnny is spraying weeds on a 100ac (41ha) solar farm between Trowbridge & Bradford-on-Avon.
We used our Honda quad bike towing a sprayer which we adapted for this job.
Dismantling 12 Poplar trees at The Hall Estate, Bradford on Avon
Dan and Matt started a sectional dismantling 12 Poplar trees at The Hall Estate, Bradford on Avon which were 120′ high. Having a head for heights is one of the more important requisites of the guys on our team! What a glorious blue sky – haven’t seen one like that for a few weeks! Job done and all wood chipped for biomass and delivered locally.
See our images below and here Matt shows how to rig off a large limb safely and controlled. It does not look big from on the ground. In all, this project took 2 weeks to complete. Our tree works have taken us far and wide from Cornwall to Corby since our last newsletter!
Removal of Redwood at Iford Manor
Many of you will know Iford Manor, between Bradford-on-Avon and Freshford. We had to remove a Redwood which had grown to about 100′ which was now too close to the Manor and unsafe to leave where it was.
We, therefore, had to remove it in small pieces ensuring no damage was caused to the house and their famous Peto Garden.
If you haven’t been to Iford, it’s well worth a visit. See the link here.
Lightning strike in the heart of Bradford on Avon
The lightning storm last week has damaged one of Bradford-on-Avon’s ancient oak trees which was ‘always there’ as you enter the town near the Canal off the Sainsbury’s roundabout on the Frome Road.
Following a call from Wiltshire Council on the Friday morning, William Warden, owner of Conservation Contractors in Devizes, sent one of his teams urgently to the stricken tree to evaluate the damage. Not only had the tree suffered extensive damage, but it was adjacent to an electricity sub station, so the tree had to be dismantled carefully, safely and quickly.
Because of the height of the tree, a supersized access platform was needed, which the Wiltshire Fire Brigade supplied, allowing the Conservation Contractors team to start work.
Firstly they had to make the tree safe by reducing the height from some 25/30m by half. Then, once this part of the work was done, the dismantling continued until a rather sad trunk was all that remained. And then it was ‘Timber’ with the trunk. The branches were chipped for small brushwood and the timbers have gone locally for firewood.
William says: “We were pleased to help…. It was one of the jobs that needed not only the skills of our experienced team of tree surgeons but also our equipment and know how to dismantle the tree without damaging the substation”.
See Conversation Contractors tree surgery page on their website here
