Erecting a post-and-3-rail fence at Shearwater
Tristan Alex and Lukas were at Shearwater at the end of September, erecting a post-and-3 rail fence along the newly constructed spillway, a great job! From WIKI: “Shearwater is a man-made freshwater lake near Crockerton village, just southwest of Warm …
Dangerous ash trees
Mark sorting some more dangerous ash trees along public rights of way in Wiltshire For details of our tree services, please see here.
Spraying brambles under solar panels
Charlie was making the best of the weather last week , spraying brambles under Solar panels on a site near Swindon 08 September 2025
30 new tree guards
30 new tree guards were erected in Longleat Estate Parkland to protect the trees from grazing cattle. Tristan and George doing an excellent job. 02 September 2025 For details of our other fencing work please see details here.
While working on a fence project in Chippenham Tristan captured a video of a local resident
https://vimeo.com/1118734039 12th September 2025
Proper Seppi mulcher out today clearing an area for ground investigation
https://vimeo.com/1118735035 For other examples of our scrub control/mulching work, please see here
25m lime tree removal
Alex and the team were in Box last week : We were tasked by WCC to remove a 25m lime tree as it was impacting on the walls and local buildings. As seen in the video, it was a really tricky job to lower all the limbs to avoid damaging anything on the wa …
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 tr …
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 sit …
Team outing to Thruxton Karting in June
This was our work’s go-kart racing outing for the morning at Thruxton last month. It turns out that being small and light is a distinct advantage! It was great fun and much harder work than it looks. We now all appreciate far more the skill and stamin …
Another 800m stock netting fencing completed today
We completed a further 800m of stock netting fencing, along with gates, just outside Devizes along the famous Wansdyke in Wiltshire to protect it from damage by cattle. Well done Toby, Ian, George and Brian “This 5th or 6th Century defensive ditch and …
Closing the gate on another few thousand metres of stock fence near Devizes
Here we’re closing the gate on 1,700 metres of stock fence near Coate, with gates and kissing gates for access and creosote-treated timber for durability. Not much fun in the sun with those posts! All undertaken using our Protech Evo 3. Great job by To …
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 …
Scrub Clearance with the RoboFlail
The RoboFlail 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 …
Beech timber off for logs
Beech timber off for logs A few hundred tons of soft and hardwood timber on the move, having been waiting onsite to be moved from a tree removal project earlier in the year. It’s not quite a full load, but the site is now clear and tidy. PS: The tim …
Trees and Team
A framework pollard of a small willow tree A framework pollard (removing all smaller limbs back to main limbs, leaving the tree to regrow looking like a set of deer antlers when completed) of a small willow tree was undertaken this week by Josh Bird …
Summer Update
Read our latest newsletter here The weather-related theme seems to prevail from the last newsletter – hot and dry with poor growing conditions impacting everything from young trees to arable and grass crops. The hotter weather has been hard work to say …
Cut and collect flail May 2025
The cut and collect flail has been out today on the chalk grassland project. The work was carried out on the edge of Salisbury Plain SSSI on a small area of approx. 2 Ha – the ground was quite undulating, however !!
Ash tree trimming back
Trimming back some not-too-unhealthy ash trees over a neighbouring garden this week in Bishops Cannings near Devizes. It seemed a shame to remove the ash trees just yet. The Spider MEWP is proving its worth, being able to access a rear garden through a …
Aerial rigging
Felix undertaking some aerial rigging this week