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This was our work’s go-kart racing outing for the morning at Thruxton last month. It turns out that being small and light is a distinct advantage! It was great fun and much harder work than it looks. We now all appreciate far more the skill and stamina of F1 drivers !!
And, we weren’t even sure this was any cooler than working in the heat at the moment. However, it was great fun chasing around Thruxton Karting Centre.
Well done to Dale, who won the final by 11 seconds.
We completed a further 800m of stock netting fencing, along with gates, just outside Devizes along the famous Wansdyke in Wiltshire to protect it from damage by cattle.
Well done Toby, Ian, George and Brian
“This 5th or 6th Century defensive ditch and bank runs from Morgan’s Hill near Bishops Canning to Savernake Forest near Marlborough.
Named Woden’s Dyke after the Saxon god, Woden, the Wansdyke was constructed at a time when history was not often written down and there is little archaeological evidence to add clues. It was most likely made by the Britons as a defensive earthwork to keep out the Saxons invading from the North. Up on the Marlborough Downs some of the impressive two-metre high banks remain in place to this day.”
For more information on The Wansdyke Path, check out the link from the North Wessex Downs here.
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Here we’re closing the gate on 1,700 metres of stock fence near Coate, with gates and kissing gates for access and creosote-treated timber for durability.
Not much fun in the sun with those posts!
All undertaken using our Protech Evo 3.
Great job by Toby and Ian
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Installing rabbit fencing to protect a young hedge near Ramsbury
This bank does not look steep in the pictures, but Alex and Tristan will tell you otherwise!
We used our Protech Evo3* for this project, given the steep ground. Our Evo Compact would not have been sufficiently stable and could have tipped over.
The rabbit netting is erected with a turnout at ground level and then pegged to the ground to stop the rabbits from burrowing underneath. In all, it was approx. 600m on very hard ground.
* The Evo 3 is the largest in the Protech range, with a machine weight of 6.5 tons and needs to be delivered on a low loader. But even though a larger machine, it gives a lighter footprint than the Compact, with a ground pressure of 2.27PSI. It has a 500kg hammer weight. Each track itself is 500mm wide, and the tracks can be fully extended to 3.3m, giving greater stability on steep ground”.
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The Robo flail clearing paths alongside the River Test
Our project here on this world-famous chalk stream was to clear the paths alongside the riverside for access and for fishermen.
From Wiki: “The River Test is a chalk stream in Hampshire. Much of the Test is a 438-hectare (1,080-acre) biological SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest.[1][3] The river is used for fly fishing for trout from its source to its tidal limit”
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A few hundred tons of soft and hardwood timber on the move, having been waiting onsite to be moved from a tree removal project earlier in the year. It’s not quite a full load, but the site is now clear and tidy.
PS: The timber lorry left fully loaded!
Trimming back some not-too-unhealthy ash trees over a neighbouring garden in May in Bishops Cannings near Devizes, it seemed a shame to remove the ash trees just yet.
The Spider MEWP is proving its worth, being able to access a rear garden through a narrow gateway and still provide 11m outreach and 23m lift!
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The weather-related theme seems to prevail from the last newsletter – hot and dry with poor growing conditions impacting everything from young trees to arable and grass crops. The hotter weather has been hard work to say the least when working outside. Some of the guys and teams have been starting early to help avoid the worst of the heat where possible.
The cut and collect flail has been out today on the chalk grassland project. The work was carried out on the edge of Salisbury Plain SSSI on a small area of approx. 2 Ha – the ground was quite undulating, however !!
