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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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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.
#TeamTaiga #Forestry #GroundPreparation #Restocking #ScottishForestry #UplandContracting #RuralScotland
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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.
#TeamTaiga #FleetSupport #Hilux #ScottishForestry #UplandContracting #RuralScotland #WorkshopLife
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Two brand-new Kobelco SK75s arrived in the yard this week — 8-tonne machines on 900mm pads, built for peatland ground, heading straight into a busy restoration season!
That's the season ahead in one picture. Bigger projects, more ground to cover, and two new machines in the fleet to help us do it properly. We're growing the capacity by investing in kit and people at the same time — machines don't work without the right operators in the seat.
Which brings us to the question. Does this look like your next machine? If you're an experienced excavator operator who'd rather be on the hill than anywhere else, come and find us.
#TeamTaiga #PeatlandRestoration #Kobelco #NowHiring #RuralJobs #ScottishForestry #UplandContracting #RuralScotland
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Landscape-scale deer fencing is scale and detail, in the same job!
Kilometres of line running across open upland ground — over peat, over rock, up and down slopes, out to the horizon. And every metre has to do the same job for thirty years, keeping deer off the young crop while the woodland establishes.
Out on this woodland creation scheme, our team is delivering exactly that. Bryce Suma driver mounted on a Valtra doing the volume work. ATVs shuttling materials to the sections the tractor can't reach. Skilled fencers working the line, making the decisions on the ground that decide whether the fence stands or fails.
The scale is what everyone photographs. The details are what make it work. We're built for both.
#TeamTaiga #DeerFencing #WoodlandCreation #Forestry #ScottishForestry #UplandContracting #RuralScotland
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