Ty Fry Farm
First Stage
Prior to the proposed housing development at Ty Fry Farm in Lougher areas of the site had to be cleared of vegetation. Further to this the remaining trees needed tree protective fencing installed and the site secured with Heras fencing.
Consisting of several old farm fields the majority of the vegetation was along the edges. The trees were a wide variety of native species. Key species such as Oak, Ash and Birch were retained as these would add value to the environment. Operating closely to the arboricultural survey provided clearance and arboricultural pruning works were carried out.
First stage of the process was to remove trees and vegetation that that was not to be retained. Less favoured species such as Willow, Alder and Poplar were targeted for removal. All the large trees were climbed if necessary, felled and processed. Large areas of dense Blackthorn and Hawthorn were flailed using an Excavator. Using the 18-tonne excavator with flail attachment made easy work of this, flailing upto 8/9 inch thick.
Second Stage
Using an Excavator all the stumps were dug out and then removed from site. The site was a bog so the only way to extract the stumps were to load them out on the back of a tractor. Even that struggled at times so had to be pushed out by the excavator.
In preparation for the development the remaining trees were to be pruned to facilitate potential buildings and roads. A variety of pruning works were carried out by our team of climbers, crown lifting and reducing where necessary, all works carried out to BS3998. Once this was completed the Veg Clearance phase was completed.
After Clearance it was required that 1.5km of Tree Protective Fencing was installed to protect the trees remaining for the duration of the project. To complete the project for us we filled all gaps with Heras fencing leaving the site ready for work to commence.
