A little fresh on Salisbury Plain today repairing fences around ancient burial grounds.
Old fences were in need of repair so we were asked to add new fence posts to the existing fences to prolong the life of them. In all approx. 1500m in two areas
Tristan drove the tracked post driver with Adam and Tad stapling the wire to the posts behind him.
A fence project to protect the lake providing disabled fishing at Tucking Mill Nr Bath. We used 6ft high wire mesh with gates to match and green 358 mesh around the sluice.
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Takedown today of a 25 feet walnut tree in Westwood, where disease had spread top down to about one-third of the height of the tree. We chipped all the smaller branches and then the trunk was cut into logs for enthusiastic woodturners.
Not only pruning and removing trees but planting as well!
100m of new, native hedging planted by Tad by hand yesterday in Easterton, near Devizes.
The planting mix was 80% hawthorn with the remainder made up of spindle, dog rose and hazel – no blackthorn as there will be horses in the field in the future.
Hawthorn in hedging has a lot of great seasonal features including haws, hips, nuts, flowers and sloes, so white flowers in the spring. And then the berries and nuts will attract a diverse range of wildlife.
Update Dec 2020: The 100m continued to 150m of the new native hedging, as well as 500 new trees – a mixture of oak, beech, rowan, spindle and cherry. As with the hedging, all the trees were planted by Tad by hand.
The field was purchased in addition to the house and the owners wanted to create a woodland in years to come. The trees were part-funded by The Woodland Trust.
The first task on our new Forestry Commission fence framework contract for the SW of England: installing posts to prevent cars from being parked on the access roads in Savernake Forest.
The Forest stands on a Cretaceous chalk plateau between Marlborough and Great Bedwyn in Wiltshire; its area is approximately 4,500 acres.