Practicality Brown are specialist contractors offering a NO BURN TREE AND SCRUB CLEARANCE service using commercial scale cost effective equipment. We have over 24 years experience of whole tree chipping on a commercial scale and over 10 years experience of mulching.

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

New AHWI RT400 Tracked Mulcher

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. Whole trees up to 600mm diameter, branches and tops are chipped at stump using 370hp grab 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 and Small Trees

Timber of any size, brash, vegetation and roots that have not been chipped or sold as timber can be mulched using one of the company's 400hp German built tracked mulchers. The mulch arising are either worked into the ground or can be removed. This new equipment eliminates the need to grub up and transport material to a static grinder and the mulched arisings can be incorporated into the topsoil as humus thus eliminating the need for removal from site and high landfill costs.

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 and Habitat Mitigation

Practicality Brown offers a comprehensive range of tree surgery and habitat mitigation services to complement its tree clearance operations when required.

Type of projects

These are examples of typical tree clearance projects carried out 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 and M25 widening)
Mineral Extraction clearance