Practicality Brown are specialist contractors offering a NO BURN TREE AND SCRUB CLEARANCE service using commercial scale and cost effective equipment, backed up with experienced management. We have over 25 years experience of mechanised vegetation clearance, having pioneered whole tree chipping in the uk on a commercial scale in 1985.

Despite the credit crunch, we continue to keep our fleet updated having recently replaced an AHWI RT400 Tracked Mulcher , 2 front line excavators and assorted attachments. This new AHWI MULCHER is fitted with the latest low emission Tier 3 Deutz engine.

Woodland and Heathland Clearance

An in-house team specialise in the rapid clearance of all parts of all trees from sites without burning. Mature trees are conventionally felled for timber. Medium size trees up to 600mm diameter, branches and tops are whole tree chipped at stump using high power mechanically fed mobile chippers. Chipped material can be removed from site immediately as Fuel Chip or composted on site for future use as mulch.

Waste Timber, Scrub Vegetation and Small Trees

Timber of any size, brash from felled trees, scrub vegetation and roots that have not been chipped or sold as timber can be mulched using one of the company's high power Forestry Mulchers. The mulched arisings can be worked into the ground as humus thus eliminating the need for costly removal to landfill.

Practicality Brown pioneered this approach to dealing with vegetation that could not be recycled back in the 1990's ; it is now the industry's accepted approach on all sites where slight nutrient enrichment is not a concern.

Tree Stumps

Tree Stumps of any size are either ground in situ or can be grubbed up and mulched where removal of side roots is also required. Both methods offer quick and cost effective means of stump removal on any size of project.

Tree Surgery, Ecology and Habitat Mitigation

Practicality Brown offers a comprehensive range of tree surgery and habitat mitigation services to complement its tree clearance operations when required. Ecologists can be provided where required to carry out habitat watching briefs and habitat mitigation services including bat and nesting bird inspections, deadwood strapping, deadwood piling, badger fencing, reptile fencing.

Other services include temporary fencing and treatment of noxious plants.

Type of Vegetation Clearance Projects Undertaken by Practicality Brown:

Construction site clearance (machines and operators CSCS certificated)
Forestry post felling Mulching (such as Forest Enterprise sites)
Forestry clearance of failed or uneconomic tree crops for fuel chip
Heathland Tree Clearance for local authority, private owners and wildlife trusts (such as Defence Estates training sites)
Woodland restoration for amenity clients
Urban Parks Restoration including several Heritage Lottery funded schemes (such as Battersea Park and Cusworth Hall)
Road and Rail Construction Clearance (such as Channel Tunnel Rail Link, M25 widening, A421 M1 to Bedford road and A46 Nottingham to Newark Road)
Mineral Extraction clearance
Fuel Chip Production within the Forestry sector
Low impact clearance of sensitive sites ( such as dormouse habitat sites)