The use of MEWPS in tree work- improving efficiency, reducing operator fatigue and generally making the whole process easier.
Category: Machinery
Two MEWPs out today in Trowbridge
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.
Read more about the London plane tree on the Woodland Trust site here
For full details about our MEWPs can be found here:
- Red Spiderlift 23m Tracked MEWP with a 12.4m outreach. Strong, reliable and lightweight.
- 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. - Off-road Blue 4×4 MAN Truck Mounted Platform Cherry Picker with a working height of 25.6m and outreach of 12.0m
Installing 1000m of water pipe and new drinking trough
Something a little different today, installing 1000m of water pipe to a new water/drinking trough on the Pewsey Downs.
Good job done using the Valtra 253 with mole plough.
Servicing and repair for all garden machinery
Remote-controlled, tracked RoboFlail clearing big bramble near Bath
Charlie and the RoboFlail clearing big bramble near Bath as part of a BNG program to plant 60 fruit trees
I hope the winch won’t be needed!
See more details of our work with
The RoboFlail clearing heavy bramble and scrub near Salisbury
The RoboFlail out, clearing heavy bramble and scrub near Salisbury.
The sun came out eventually 🙂
RoboFlail out busy this week clearing scrubby banks near Castle Combe
Charlie with the RoboFlail is busy this week, clearing scrubby banks near Castle Combe as part of a grassland restoration project.
Tractor Run on Sunday – part of the annual Tractor n’Tinsel Run 2025 in Devizes
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
Transporting and unrolling several strands of barbed wire at once
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:
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.