Taiga Upland

1 day ago

The team is back on the road, remobilising to a remote woodland creation site the winter snow chased us off before we could finish. A long journey back in, across some of the finest country in Scotland!

Before the machines start, the team meet on the track for a pre-commencement discussion. Skilled operators talking through how the job will run — who takes what responsibility, how they'll work together, how they'll look after each other in a place this remote. Standards agreed by the people who are going to hold themselves to them.

It's easy to overlook a meeting like this. But what happens on that track shapes the native woodland that grows here for the next hundred years. Legacy in action, quietly.

Then the machines move to position, and a new season begins.
Good to be back.

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Taiga Upland

3 days ago

Not every part of a peatland site can be restored with a machine.
Some ground can't be reached at all. On other areas, even where machines can work, there simply isn't enough vegetated material on site to do the job with cultivation alone. In those places, the answer is hand work — and this month our dedicated hand work team has been out on a large, heavily degraded site installing coir logs across the bare peat!

The coir logs are pinned into the ground with timber stakes, laid across the erosion features to slow the flow of water, raise the water table, and give sphagnum mosses a foothold to grow back. Over the coming years, the surface starts to cover, the peat starts to hold water again, and the ground starts to do its job.

Getting the material up there is a job in itself — tractor and Taiga dump trailer to the top of the hill, then transferred onto our specialist tracked carrier for the last leg onto the soft ground.
Having a dedicated hand work team is what lets us take on the hardest sites and finish them properly. It's not something every contractor offers.

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Taiga Upland

1 week ago

Forestry is going through a hard patch. Timber prices are low, budgets are tight, and restocking costs are being scrutinised harder than they have been in years!

That pressure is real, and it's understood. But restocking is the start of a crop that will be growing for forty years, and the decisions taken now — the ground prep spec, the contractor chosen, the corners cut or not cut — show up in the timber long after the current market has moved on.

Ground done properly the first time is one of the quietest but most important calls in forestry. The pressure of this year's budget will pass. The crop will be there for decades.

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Taiga Upland

1 week ago

A new addition to the Taiga Upland fleet this week — a Toyota Hilux fitted out as a mobile workshop, built to keep our machines running on the sites where they actually work!

Gullwing side access to the tools and parts, proper 4x4 to get out to remote peatland and forestry ground. When something needs attention, the support team can get there fast, with the right kit, and get the machine back to work.

Custom canopy by Mocho Fabrication.

It's another piece of investment in the reliability our clients rely on.

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