Lifting the correct way...

At Nicholsons there many items of all shapes and sizes to be lifted and moved. In order to save our backs we organised a staff training session on manual handling. The materials we frequently move are awkward and heavy in the range of large trees, compost and logs. The Landscape team experience a variety of manual handling techniques in their daily work from laying slabs, shovelling and mixing cement. All the staff took part and the emphasis was on the individual and their capabilities of lifting. There is no set law on the maximum weight to be lifted but general guidelines which advise the individual on the best way to lift and to ask for help whenever they feel they need to.

Nicholsons Forestry Reaches the parts that no other Consultant can reach

Tim Shardlow who heads the Nicholsons Forestry department needs to get to some obviously difficult to reach parts on one our clients estate. Here he is heading off onboard the company's LOHR FL500 Air portable light vehicle to visit places untouched by human hand or foot for some time. He obviously does not want to get stuck and so this tough vehicle has been wheeled out to assist. This vehicle is being used to travel around some of the new woodlands which have been planted on an estate to make sure that the weeding has been done properly and that the new trees are growing well following the completion of this years winter tree planting schedule.

Henley in Transition -Carbon Neutrality by 2012

Nicholsons made two presentations at the Rowing and Riverside Museum in Henley this month. The presentations focused on the role of forestry in reducing a carbon footprint. They also focused on the benefit of using wood fuel as part of this process and in so doing enabling good management of woodlands. There currently a great demand for woodfuel and this is helping to improve markets for low value produce, this in turn is enabling woodlands to be better managed.