Landscaping at Ticehurst
A spot of landscaping from last week at Ticehurst more pictures to follow… Probably ‘spot’ is an understatement…. To fit around the existing trees of Corsican Pine, Turkey Oak, Atlas Cedar and English Oak, the plants included a selection of Acer, Bet …
Deer Fencing in Melksham
Deer Fencing is usually 1.8m galvanized wire, which is very strong and lightweight. No barbed wire on top. It allows you to protect your trees and shrubs from being eaten or being used to rub up against. We have recently installed just unde …
Tree works at The Hall Estate, Bradford on Avon
Back again is routine tree works at The Hall Estate Bradford on Avon to reduce trees and some safety works on the boundary and by the railway line
Removal of deadwood from roadside trees at Netheravon
Our task here was the removal of deadwood from roadside trees at Netheravon. In addition, we had to fell a dead ash tree using our MEWP (Mobile Elevated Work Platform).
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 Westbur …
Range refurbishment at Bulford (2)
Range refurbishment at Bulford contd. Following on from our post on 12th 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 an …
Homeowner ordered to pay £21,000 proceeds of crime order for butchering a tree
This link goes to The Times of 23rd March and concerns a homeowner in Canford Cliffs, Poole, who ignored a TPO (tree preservation order) on his 42-foot oak tree and instead he virtually destroyed it by chopping off 12ft-long branches – all for the purp …
Justin showing a large beech tree near Bath who is boss
We spent a week dismantling decaying beech trees in Bath. They were leaning over a footpath and, having recently been surveyed, there was no choice but to dismantle and remove them and plant replacements. The timber will be used for firewood. We needed …
Another day another 1000m post and rail job
Our job here was to replace an old, rotten post and rail fence which had served its time. We removed the fence and replaced it with 1000m of new, creosote-treated timber post and rail fencing. This should last another 30 years. See our pictures below …
400m chain link fencing with 3-strands of barbed wire on top for Utilities company in Gillingham
Following on from our hedge removal project in the summer, we now needed to erect the perimeter fence to the site for the utilities company. The site had been upgraded and expanded to meet the demand for new housing. We erected 400m of 1.8m chain link …
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 sit …
Range refurbishment at Bulford
We had recently won a contract to strip from site 450 tons of hazardous and contaminated sand used as a stop butt on a military firing range. After stopping bullets for years it was time to be replaced with new, along with some timber repairs while w …
Dismantling a large conifer too close to the house, Lavington near Devizes
A recent tree survey showed that a large conifer growing close to a substantial property was too near for safety. We therefore dismantled it and removed all the timber to be reprocessed for biomass to feed a power station.
The importance of Tree Surveys
Another reminder from us about the importance of getting your trees surveyed and that they are your responsibility. Here are two links to The Times and The Standard. They concern a celebrity interior designer facing a police investigation after a forme …
Footpath gates erected at Tidworth
Footpath gates erected at Tidworth as part of a larger fencing project to allow grazing and public access. Our brief was to erect 500m of new barbed wire fence to allow grazing of cattle on chalk grassland to the rear of houses in Tidworth. We then ne …
Our old Unimog, maybe?
We think this is our old Unimog still going strong with another contractor. We sold it 5 years ago, to be replaced by a tractor for the mulcher, as we found the Unimog to be unsuitable Dec 2018
Clearing back overhanging trees in Bradford on Avon
You might have seen us last week clearing back overhanging trees in Bradford on Avon. We were along the riverside between the station car park and swimming pool. For details of all our tree surgery work please see our website page here or search under …
Reduction and removal of Sycamores in Devizes
Space was at a premium last week while removing and reducing a row of sycamore trees in Hartmoor Road Devizes 16 December 2018
Equestrian Arena build in Lavington
This is now complete. Following a successful planning application approval, the brief was to build a 40 x 20m sand arena. The topsoil was removed and the site levelled with drainage and soakaway. Then a stone sub-base with a membrane underneath was l …
Dismantle 10 Sycamore trees St Mary’s Hospital Bristol
Here’s a picture of young Lukas dismantling the first of many 60-foot sycamore trees for St Mary’s Hospital in Bristol. The project necessitated the trees being dismantled for the regeneration of the site into student accommodation. For details of our …