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Sunday 20 February 2011

Forest Road Construction

Nicholsons Forestry team have recently completed the upgrading of a 500m access road from the public highway into the woodlands on one of our client estates. The work involved the digging out of existing material, the importation from a local quarry of 800 tonnes of stone, and the spreading and compaction of the stone to form the new road surface. We also constructed a turning area to allow road going timber lorries to get into and out of the site more easily and to facilitate the loading of timber that will be brought down to the turning area by timber forwarders. The cost of the work was part-funded by a Woodland Improvement Grant from the Forestry Commission, and the work was completed ahead of timber harvesting operations on the estate which are due to begin in early March.

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