Below are examples of work which has been carried out during the last few years.
Gorse and Scrub Clearance in the Brecks
We were awarded a contract to clear approximately 7.5 hectares of dense and scattered gorse interspersed with birch regeneration. The client wanted the gorse cut and removed. The dense gorse was cut using a reciprocating cutter, capable of cutting woody material up to 80mm in diameter, mounted on a 13 tonne excavator. After cutting the material was burnt using a fire sledge loaded with a grapple mounted on the excavator. Following burning the entire area was cut again using a flail collector to remove any remaining litter and the stumps treated. Gorse regrowth was treated the following summer. Scattered gorse and birch was cut using chainsaws and brushcutters and the material burnt.
Wet Scrub Clearance in the Broads
Ten hectares of scattered scrub and 1.5ha of dense sallow and alder scrub were cleared from a Broadland Fen. Cut scrub was burnt and a Hagglund amphibious tracked vehicle used for access and transport around the site. Following clearance the stumps were ground using a grinder attachment mounted on a 5 tonne excavator.
Grassland Management in East Suffolk
Grassland management on this site consists of flail collecting fields surrounding reservoirs at varied times of the year in accordance with a Countryside Stewardship Agreement. Arisings are disposed of on-site.
Fen Mowing
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annually cut and clear vegetation of many of the fens along the upper Waveney and Little Ouse valleys. The fen vegetation which includes mixed fen, reed and sedge dominated communities are cut with either brushcutters or reciprocating mowers, depending on the topography and water levels then cleared.
Stock and Chainlink Fencing
We were contracted to stock fence using HT8/80/15 high tensile stock fencing with two high tensile barbed top lines around two waste water settlement lagoons used to treat water from a food processing plant. Additionally we erected approximately 60m of 1.8m galvanised chainlink fence around an aeration pit.
Flail Foraging Common Land
To maintain the floristic diversity on ungrazed common land in East Anglia one of the options is to cut and collect the arisings using a flail forager. These images are from a common in North Suffolk where an area of approximately 7.5 hectares was cut in July with the cut materials disposed of off-site. The common had a mixture of grassland communities with areas of acid grassland and those becoming dominated with rush interspersed with bramble and birch saplings.
Stock and Plain Wire Fencing
The fence consisted of 2000m of high tensile strained stock fencing, 750m of plain wire fencing and various gates and deer crossings.
