Last Saturday saw us clearing encroaching willow on environmental stewardship land nr Devizes. Job well done.
Tag: Scrub Clearance
Rake and burn tidy up
Our project here was a rake and burn tidy up of forestry harvesting debris in Erlestoke to allow replanting of native trees next winter.
Erlestoke is a village in Wiltshire, on the northern edge of Salisbury Plain. It lies about 6 miles east of Westbury and the same distance southwest of Devizes.
Site clearance in Westbury for next 2 weeks so needed the big toys to speed up the job!
Linden Homes are building a new development at Westbury by the station. So as to avoid disturbing nesting birds we needed to cut and chip large volumes of scrub and over-mature thorn and hedging. This was cut to a height of one metre and chipped on site.
The next phase will be to winching up and removing the trees from the lake and reducing larger oak trees, along with fitting cable bracing.
Clearing River Kennet for WCC
A messy job today for Wiltshire County Council clearing the River Kennet behind St Peter’s Junior School. Trees were overhanging the watercourse which was full of wire. All in a day’s work!
Scrub spraying on Salisbury Plain
Steve, Justin and Mike busy scrub spraying 197 ha on Salisbury Plain
See more of our weed control activities here
Converting waste timber to biomass
It seemed a waste to just burn the waste timber from a scrub clearance project, so we are converting waste timber to biomass fuel by chipping.
See full details of vegetation management here
Mulching Dartmoor and Bovey Tracey in Devon
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.
Wadswick Green, Corsham
Our work at Wadswick Green, Corsham continues… This is the new retirement village.
The pictures show the results of our efforts after two days’ strimming and brush cutting – all previously covered in brambles and nettles and an eyesore. And, look! We found a pond!! The second image shows watering of freshly planted shrub beds due to lack of rain.
See here for further details of some of the work we’ve undertaken for Wadswick Green.
Scrub Clearance on Salisbury Plain
Monday and storm Imogen’s wind and rain kept us away from crop spraying and tree dismantling. So a little light relief was found with scrub clearance on Salisbury Plain to keep Steve, Dan, Scott, Rich and Matt happy.
Mulching in Great Cheverell and Corby
Here’s a couple of youtube snippets for you to see of our team mulching
Firstly Tristan tackling 4m high blackthorn re-growth
And secondly, our project before Christmas in December 2015 when we undertook an 80ha mulching contract in Corby, Northamptonshire
We were clearing from a former steelworks site now ready for industrial planning.
For details of our vegetation management and scrub clearance please see our website here