2 weeks of work for National Trust at Selborne. We will be clearing along a fence line, mostly Hazel which is over stood and too large to lay as a hedge. Typical tools required ie chainsaws, bow saws and loppers. Jim will meet us in the pub car-park and be with us on both days […]
Planting 1000 whips in Botley Wood. JohnR leading.
Two days of planting hedge whips and small trees as we have in previous years. Also planting more information boards as we did on October 29. Steve will lead the hedging work and JohnA resume on the information boards (probably) on 3rd December probably everyone working on information boards. Arrival of hedging whips delayed. Park […]
Two days of planting hedge whips and small trees as we have in previous years. Also planting more information boards as we did on October 29. Steve will lead the hedging work and JohnA resume on the information boards (probably) on 3rd December probably everyone working on information boards. Arrival of hedging whips delayed. Park […]
Wednesday November 26th – Task Changed, date changed to December 17. Please park near the barn at the end of the road. We will be working in the belt of trees that extends south of the carpark between the footpath and the field. The task will be to cut and remove all manner of plants […]
Last chance for Christmas shopping. Enjoy the break.
31st December – Jubilee Wood. Nick leading the task. Location – off Tanhouse Lane. Those of you who have been before will remember that Tanhouse Lane peters out into what appears to be a minor crossroads: please take the left hand turning and go up a slight incline a couple of hundred yards. Then turn […]
Val from Otterbourne Conservation Group has several work requests, some of which we have done before ; Installing stub supports to the main Notice Board. Replacing a few broken/missing posts beside the track. Clearing a new woodland path. Cutting brambles obscuring the snowdrop area. Cutting and burning old wood in the compost area. Trimming overhanging […]
Lay 40m of nice hedge for Test Valley Borough Council. Birch trees in the hedge have a TPO and must be left intact. Most of the cutting can be done with Silky saws. Just 1 chainsaw in case. Task leader Baz. More details to follow.
Second visit this winter coppicing Hazel in Jubilee Wood.