Before you put the fence up you have to clear the path;
More in Savernnake this week with Alex Draper acting as pathfinder!
Category: Scrub Clearance
Making quick work of demolishing brambles in Tidworth
Making quick work of demolishing brambles at Tidworth Garrison to allow a surveyor to mark out the sightlines for a new car park.
We are returning soon to remove some of the trees.
Clearing willow on environmental stewardship land near Devizes
Last Saturday saw us clearing encroaching willow on environmental stewardship land nr Devizes. Job well done.
Rake and burn tidy up
Our project here was a rake and burn tidy up of forestry harvesting debris in Erlestoke to allow replanting of native trees next winter.
Erlestoke is a village in Wiltshire, on the northern edge of Salisbury Plain. It lies about 6 miles east of Westbury and the same distance southwest of Devizes.
Site clearance in Westbury for next 2 weeks so needed the big toys to speed up the job!
Linden Homes are building a new development at Westbury by the station. So as to avoid disturbing nesting birds we needed to cut and chip large volumes of scrub and over-mature thorn and hedging. This was cut to a height of one metre and chipped on site.
The next phase will be to winching up and removing the trees from the lake and reducing larger oak trees, along with fitting cable bracing.