Site Clearance
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Tree and Vegetation Land Clearance
Regionally structured with national capabilities
Practicality Brown Limited is the leading authority in rapid mechanised tree, vegetation and land clearance for the construction, utility, house building and forestry industries. Delivering large-scale tree clearance projects efficiently, on time and on budget.
Services
We offer a professional, efficient, industry compliant services to suit all commercial land clearance needs, with a broad portfolio including:
| · Mechanical low noise felling
· Whole tree chipping · Complete vegetation clearance · Difficult access clearance · Habitat translocation /mitigation |
· On site project management ensuring quality and delivery
· Stump removal and/or mulching · Tree surgery · Ecology services |
Happy Customer
Civil Engineers, Redhill
Thank for the way you and your people approached the initial site clearance work. The short lead-in period and demanding programme was planned with care and executed with real energy. Your response to an early safety issue also deserves credit. Well done, I look forward to similar success during the rest of the project.
Mulching hedgerow, 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 our high power forestry mulchers. The mulched arisings can be recycled into the ground as humus thus eliminating the need for costly removal to landfill.
Practicality Brown pioneered this approach, i.e. dealing with vegetation that could not be recycled, in the 1990s; it is now the industry’s accepted approach on all sites where slight nutrient enrichment is not a concern.
Forest Clearance
Recycle: whole tree chipping for biomass fuel market
In 1985, we pioneered whole-tree chipping on a commercial scale in the UK and it still remains a core part of our business. Uneconomic tree crops are chipped for wood fuel which goes to the growing biomass fuel industry and is sold through our associated company Fuel Chip Ltd.
Land Clearance
Removal: Tree Stumps and Roots
Tree Stumps of any size are grubbed up by excavator and mulched by forestry mulcher for incorporation into the topsoil strip, or removed from site to a licenced Recycling Station as required. This efficient method maximises the amount of side root removal and ensures that following trades can proceed without encountering hidden roots. Tree stumps close to structures or services can be wholly or partly ground out where necessary, using our pedestrian operated wheeled or tracked stump grinder.
Construction and Civil Engineering site clearance projects
We have had many years’ experience in clearing areas for construction and civil engineering projects such as trees, vegetation and scrub clearance. We use our specialised heavy equipment including mulchers, excavators and tree shears etc. all of which are operated by qualified CSCS-certificated professionals. Our experience includes road and rail construction clearance; for example:
- Channel Tunnel Rail Link
- M25 widening
- A421/M1 to Bedford
- A46 Nottingham to Newark Road
- Norwich Northern Distributor Road
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