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 Ireland and we feature on their Facebook page here:
Category: Machinery
Drone footage of the solar farm project near Melksham
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.
Click here to view one of our earlier posts and a video from last December for comparison.
Then we were unrolling Solonet deer wire/tensioner with Tornado 450 m rolls of deer netting – making life a little easier.
Biodiversity Net Gain – installing rabbit fencing
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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Scrub Clearance with the Robo Flail
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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New Hybrid Hilux
Yesterday’s post was about the oldest machine on the fleet which was built 40 years ago this year and is still going strong…
This is the latest Hybrid Hilux to join the fleet this week; this makes no 6 !
Not sure it will still be here in 2065! Great service from Kennet Signs as usual.
Runway clearing at Lee-on-Solent
Runway clearing at Lee-on-Solent
Early start for Tad this week to get weeds treated at Lee-on-Solent in Hampshire before the runway opens.
Nice visit from an iconic bird! Part of a Victory Festival & Air Display at featuring vintage aircraft, and other events.
For full info on our weed control services, please visit this link
Our Seppi Forestry Mulcher dealing with heavy and dense vegetation
Tidy Friday: mulching an area next to a security fence near Larkhill. Our Robo Flails are great, but the Seppi Mulcher is better here and deals with heavy and dense vegetation with ease.
An older but very efficient workhorse in our fleet, and built to last.
Robo flail overlooking Bath Feb 2025
It was nice to see the sunshine yesterday; Tad was out with the robo flail overlooking Bath, to clear some large bramble.
7th Feb 2025
Clearing bramble with the Robo Flail in Somerset
Tad back out with the Robo flail in Somerset at the end November clearing bramble on some banks.
Robo fail clearing – before and after
This project is part of a programme to control Hemlock, which will be treated next spring to prevent re-growth.
From The Wildlife Trusts website: “A poisonous plant, hemlock has a repellent smell when its leaves are crushed, helping to ensure that accidental poisonings don’t occur very often – even livestock studiously avoid it. This biennial plant prefers damp places and can grow in huge colonies on waste ground, riverbanks and ditches, but can also be seen along roadside verges. It produces umbels (umbrella-like clusters) of white flowers in June and July”.
