PRACTICAL SERVICES
TREE PLANTING:
We have a 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, the correct species selection for the site, site preparation for improved plant establishment, the best means of protection against browsing mammals, and a maintenance programme to assist 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 or 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. These skills have led us to work outside the woodland and plantation, so we now cut grass in amenity areas, maintain landscaping schemes, control Japanese knotweed, clear or re-space scrub, and cut public footpaths
Whatever your requirement - chemical weeding, tractor-mounted mowing, brushcutting , or strimming , a one-off visit or an on-going maintenance programme- we can do it.
ACCESS WORKS:
We have extensive experience of path and track construction to various specifications, including hard-wearing forestry tracks to allow access into the woodland and the extraction of timber from the woodland, and smaller, pedestrian all-weather paths for public access. 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, typically using pedestrian or compact tractor equipment suitable to the area concerned, through to field-scale areas of wild flower or grass establishment for amenity or environmental benefits.
FENCING:
Our fencers between them have erected thousands of metres to different requirements and specifications.
In the forestry context fencing is usually against rabbits, deer, stock, or all three, and variations on strained wire fencing are usually applicable. In paddocks, parks and new developments the requirement is often for wooden post and rail or close board fencing.
In recent years we have put up some 35,000 metres of reptile 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. We have also been asked to construct fences to protect water-voles, badgers, and snakes. These wildlife fences are usually constructed on sites with particular environmental sensitivities, for which our informed and experienced operators are well suited.
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