TREE PLANTING:
We have huge knowledge of tree, hedge and shrub planting gained over 30 years of experience. If you have a planting scheme that you wish to implement we will be pleased to quote for the supply, planting, guarding, and maintenance through to establishment.
If you need advice about the technical aspects of a scheme, then please do contact us. We can help with sources of grant aid, correct species selection for the site, the best means of protection against browsing mammals, and a maintenance programme to improve tree survival and growth.
VEGETATION MANAGEMENT:
Our expertise in this field has arisen from our experience of maintaining plantations and hedges post-planting to ensure successful establishment. As a minimum this will usually require a spot application of herbicide around each young plant to ensure reduced competition from weeds for nutrients and moisture. Very often tractor-mounted mowing between young trees will also be needed. Where a tractor cannot reach, a strimmer/brushcutter usually can. Later in a plantation's development competitive woody growth may need to be cut back. Paths and rides will also need to be mown to maintain access and often to improve biodiversity.
Whatever your requirement - chemical weeding, tractor-mounted mowing, brushcutting etc. - we can do it.
ACCESS WORKS:
We have extensive experience of path and track construction to various specifications. We can also install gates and barriers from a simple agricultural field gate, through pedestrian kissing gates, to specialised horse-friendly vehicle barriers.
CULTIVATIONS AND SEEDING:
We have the equipment and expertise to carry out all types of cultivations and seeding. This can be small areas of grass seeding as part of a landscaping project or larger areas of wild flower establishment for amenity or environmental benefits.
FENCING:
Our fencers between them have erected tens of thousands of metres to different requirements and specifications.
In a forestry context fencing is usually against rabbits, deer, stock, or all three; variations on strained-wire fencing are usually applicable. In paddocks, parks etc. post and rail fencing is more the norm.
In recent years we have put up some 25,000 metres of herpetofauna fencing. Much of this has been of polythene or woven polypropylene membrane, but we have also successfully developed more permanent specifications, using high density polyethylene and galvanised sheet steel.
