Mechanised Site Clearance

What is Mechanised Site Clearance?

Safety and efficiency!

Unmanaged areas of land often become overgrown with trees and shrubs. These particular areas are often an impenetrable, tangled mass of thorny plants that are hazardous and time consuming to deal with by hand. The ground cover they provide often obscures hazards such as ditches and holes. This can be exacerbated on disused urban sites where large amounts of hazardous waste can be found hiding underneath. 

Primarely carried out where unmanged land is being developed for a specific reason. By utilisation of machinery adapted for handling trees, timber and vegetation to clear a given area, it allows a much safer, fast and efficient method of working.

We have acess to a range of machines to suit any project. Here's a an example:

Excavators

Excavators are an extremely versatile tool for use in arboricultural work. Modern machines have the ability to accept a wide range of attachments suitable for arboricultural work. Grapples take the need for any heavy lifting or reaching into overgrown areas of thorn and bramble! Tree shears allow trees to be removed without the need for manual cutting ready for processing. Our smaller machines are fitted with height limiters making them ideal for working underneath overhead power lines or other critical overhead services.

Large capacity chipper

For processing large and small trees. Our large drum chipper, fed by an excavator, is capable of chipping large amounts of timber and brash quickly and efficiently.  

Remote controlled Steep access machines

With various attachments for clearing smaller, low lying woody vegetation. These specialist machines are capable of traversing a slope up to 55 degrees. Much more efficient than using strimmers/brush cutters and not to mention much safer due to the remote operation. The controls allow the operator a much wider view of the work site at all times.

Forestry winch

A fast, powerful winch mounted on our tracked robot tool carrier. It allows great flexibility when it comes to access, able to operate on slopes up to 55 degrees and squeeze through narrow gaps where larger machines would struggle. Able to extract trees from areas of the site larger machines would struggle to get to. 

Stump grinding machines

Stumps can prove to be an issue once trees have been removed. Astump grinder is essentially a disc with hardened metal teeth that grinds away the remaining stump to below ground level. Stumps can also be excavated but this is a more time consuming and expensive process.