Grenade Range Refurbishment Warminster April 2021

Posted on 5 April 20214 November 2025 by Debbie Newman

Something a little different for us – we recently started a project to refurbish a grenade range at Warminster.

We needed to remove 500 tons of limestone gravel, undertake repairs to the sub-base and increase the area to the required specification.

The throwing bays were also dug out and will be restored once the main range floor has been reinstated.

Grenade Range Refurbishment Warminster April 2021

Covering an ancient burial site with chain link mesh March 2021

Posted on 18 March 20214 November 2025 by Debbie Newman

Something different this week: we needed to cover an ancient burial site ( Tumulus ) with chainlink mesh to prevent the local badger population from calling it home; this helps to preserve anything inside the mound. The funny shape was caused by tanks driving over it for practice before heading off to active duty in WW1!

The area is called Snail Down at Everleigh. See the Historic England information here.

With thanks to Wiki: A tumulus is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. Tumuli are also known as barrows, burial mounds or kurgans, and may be found throughout much of the world. A cairn, which is a mound of stones built for various purposes, may also originally have been a tumulus. Wikipedia

covering an ancient burial site with chain link mesh

Replacing 3000m fencing at Bulford

Posted on 11 March 202031 January 2023 by Debbie Newman

Following the removal of 3000m of the old fence, it is time to start with replacement along the front of Bulford Firing Ranges to prevent access when live firing

So, our Evo 1 post driver came in useful to replace the 3000m fencing.

19 Feb 20

And here we add a few more pictures of the fencing complete as at mid-March.

Range refurbishment at Bulford (2)

Posted on 10 April 201910 April 2019 by Debbie Newman

Range refurbishment at Bulford contd.

Following on from our post on 12^th March, here’s a few more pictures of our range works at Bulford, just northeast of Amesbury.

The project was to remove contaminated sand and replace with new sand, free of lead and heavy metals. The range is now open and in use.

Timber Firing Points, Warminster Ranges

Posted on 10 December 20184 November 2025 by Debbie Newman

Our original Facebook post at the beginning of November showed that we were making a number of these. We mentioned that they would be painted cream and concreted to the ground. But we didn’t get many replies as to what they would be used for, so we thought you’d like to know the answer!

They are, in fact, timber firing points we installed at Warminster Ranges, all made in-house. And they had to be painted country cream as they didn’t want bright white!

Refurbishment to Bulford Firing Range “C”

Posted on 2 July 20184 November 2025 by Debbie Newman

Following a long tender process with Landmarc Ltd, on behalf of Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO), we won the contract for the refurbishment to Bulford Firing Range “C” to bring it up to modern compliance specification. DIO is part of the Ministry of Defence.

The project required the old tarmac and timber range floor to be removed and the firing trenches replaced with pre-fabricated concrete structures made off-site. We then fitted recycled plastic edging and then covered the whole site in a soft-pour surface.

We completed the project within the month, due to strict time constraints. Although the range we were working on was closed for the works to be carried out, neighbouring ranges were kept in use with live firing on a daily basis. This is the first firing range on Salisbury Plain with this finish.

Landmarc/DIO now have a safer range with no ricochet hazard; one that is maintenance free and hard wearing.

See our Case Study here. Firing Range at Bulford June 2018 e