Two MEWPs out today in Trowbridge working on the trees around Wiltshire Council HQ. All London Plane trees and all crown lifted to 5m above the road, with the removal of dead wood as well. 15th April.
Off-road 4×4 Land Rover Cherry Picker with a working height of up to 14m; the outreach here at 10m height would be 4m. This machine is best suited to confined spaces where our lorry-based 26m one would be too big.
Tractor run about to leave to join everyone else in Devizes as part of the annual Tractor N’ Tinsel Run 2025 on Sunday 21st December.
We were delighted to support Devizes Young Farmers Charity Tractor run on Sunday – a great turnout.
“The first pod included many vintage tractors before the big modern beasts arrived. Devizes Young Farmers’ volunteers, particularly those too young to travel by tractor collected money from the crowd for this year’s chosen charities (Wiltshire Air Ambulance, Bugs Fund(Burns Unit Group Support) and Salisbury Hospital’s Star Appeal). It’s not too late to make a contribution, click here for the Just Giving page.”
Thanks to Tristan, George, Mark & Charlie
The tractors in action
These were the tractors we used:
MB trac 1000 (green) The oldest in the fleet, first registered in 1985, so very much a vintage machine. Built by Mercedes but no longer in production. This was the one we rebuilt the engine on back in April – read our link to our post here
Valtra 121 Fitted with a front loader and first registered 2012 This was the tractor seen on the wire unroller putting up the deer fence recently Used in a multitude of different tasks on a daily basis
Valtra 234 Active(blue) This is the most modern one – registered new in 2021 Used to move large machinery to site Colour-coded front toolbox with integrated fuel tank – blue
Valtra 8450(red) Date of first registration 2006 Nearly 20 years old, so almost vintage Fitted with a rooftop crane to move timber away from felling operations with its timber trailer
Meet our new small but handy fencing trailer for transporting and unrolling several strands of barbed wire at once, saving time and energy. There’s also room for tools and all the bits and bobs you need for fencing. It is a one-off bespoke fencing trailer supplied by GA Trailers Ltd in N Irelandand we feature on their Facebook page here:
This drone footage follows on from the earlier posts by Tristan and Toby, who have been fencing on the Solar Farm Project site in Melksham over the past few months. We were tasked with erecting 13,000m of fencing around 16 separate compartments.
The site looks very different now – this footage taken just before the main construction works commences.
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”.
