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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.
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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.
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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.
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What's one of the hardest features to fix on a peatland restoration site?
Peat pans. Big open areas of bare, drying peat, stripped back by years of wind and water erosion, losing carbon into the atmosphere with every year that goes by.
Restoring them takes a plan. Cell and surface bunding to create small pools where water can sit, cover the bare peat, and let sphagnum mosses start to establish. The technique is well understood. What's harder is the reality of doing it — pans that size often don't have enough usable turf nearby, and moving material in without damaging the wider bog needs the right kit and skilled operators to run it.
That's the bit we've invested in properly, and it's what gets the outcomes clients are looking for.
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Taiga Upland is growing our team that restores Scotland's peatlands by hand: building timber dams, moving stone, laying geo-textile, re-seeding bare peat. It's physical, outdoor work in remote upland terrain — tough, rewarding, and genuinely worthwhile.
You'll be part of a driven team that takes real pride in the job and has each other's backs on the hill.
Full details and how to apply:
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