Forestry Commission

Since our last update, we are delighted to confirm that we have secured a framework agreement with the Forestry Commission for the inspection of infected trees across the South West of England This also includes felling infected trees and collecting samples.   This will take us from Gloucester down through Dorset and to East Devon.

Plotting infected trees for landowners and public bodies, with samples taken and returned to Forestry Commission for testing, follows on from a contract to survey over 50 sites for a national health care company from Preston in Lancashire in the north to Kent in the south, along with MoD sites throughout the South West.  Apparently the little white van now needs replacing !

Spraying and cultivating between solar panels and new hedging

We sprayed and cultivated amongst the panels on an 80ac Solar Farm, near Westbury, Wiltshire

We planted a native mix of thorn, hazel, dog rose, holly, hawthorn and blackthorn hedging.    When this is complete, we’re then sowing wildflower seed and then maintaining for five years.  The wildflowers will grow to create new meadows.

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Cricket ball stop net for Bishops Cannings CC in Devizes, Wiltshire

Something a bit different for us…

We erected a 5m high x 70m long ball stop net for Bishop Canning’s CC – replacing very old dilapidated one. We designed and made it in-house and the beauty of it is that one person can raise and lower the net on his/her own using a hand winch – the whole length in one go. How good is that?  So if your local CC, school or sports club – anyone with a sports field really – needs a new or replacement net, please point them in our direction!

 

Cricket ball stop netWe erected a 5m high x 70m long ball stop net for Bishop Canning’s CCCricket ball stop net Cricket ball stop net

Bees in Christchurch, Dorset

We’ve had a busy few weeks in Christchurch, Dorset, giving some TLC, reduction and some felling to 40 oak trees which hadn’t been maintained for many years.   We had one surprise, though….

One of the trunks was hollow as it was full of honey!   A colony of bees had nested in it, so with the help of the local Bee Society, we needed to move them to a new home.  They had to be smoked out at night but leaving the Queen in the tree.  We then carefully felled the tree and moved it, the Queen and the honey to its new home, with the worker bees following the lorry with the Queen.

The local Bee Society were just delighted we hadn’t simply felled the tree and rendered the colony homeless… But no responsible tree surgeon would do that, surely?

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