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Big woodland creation schemes involve a lot of moving parts. Ground preparation, fencing, infrastructure — usually delivered by separate contractors, all needing to work to the same standards and the same programme.
This is the final piece of a large woodland creation scheme we've delivered through 2026 — a high-spec long-jump deer grid installed at the entrance. The same Taiga Upland team that built this grid into the track also did the forestry ground preparation across the scheme, cleared the fencelines, and installed the deer fencing tying into it. One contractor, one programme, one point of accountability.
That's what collaborative forest operations actually look like. Skilled fencing teams and top-level machine operators working alongside each other, on the same job, with the same standards. The result speaks for itself.
Quality grid supplied by our friends at Hopkins Cattle Grids.
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There's a lot said about young people and their work ethic, most of it negative. We don't buy it!
This is one of our newest recruits, standing in front of his machine. He's exactly the kind of person we want at Taiga Upland — and there are plenty more like him out there if you're willing to look and give them a chance.
Rural industries need new people. Moving the same skilled staff between companies doesn't grow the industry — it just shuffles it. What grows it is bringing fresh people in and training them properly. Time, patience, real investment. Almost every time, it's worth the risk.
That's the kind of company we want to be. Honest work, real training, and a chance for someone to build a career here.
Optimistic about the future. And doing something about it.
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Why does a restock fence matter so much?
Because it can be the difference between the new crop taking and the new crop getting hammered by deer.
It's a serious investment, but on the right site it's the work that decides whether everything behind it succeeds. Foresters who commission it want one thing — it done safely, efficiently, no fuss, the fence in and working.
On this project we added something most fencing contractors can't. Before the fencing team arrived, our ground-prep excavators went in and cleared the fenceline through difficult terrain. A cleaner line gives a better fence — straighter, stronger, built with fewer compromises.
That's the advantage of having ground prep and fencing under one roof. The capabilities work together, on the same job, adding value all the way through.
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What's the part of a big peatland job that nobody photographs?
Getting there.
Mobilising onto a new restoration site this week, with a lot of moving parts coming together quickly. JCB Fastrac and tri-axle low-loader doing the hauling — the right transport for complex rural roads and estate tracks. Overhead power lines mapped, underground services accounted for, gates and bridges treated with care. The workshop set machines up with the right tracks for soft ground before they left the yard.
Then the operators take over and the real work begins.
It's the bit nobody sees, and it's the bit that decides whether a project starts well or starts badly.
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What does it take to deliver a large-scale forestry programme?
One contractor doing the whole job properly.
Our excavators are out across Scotland this season — on ground preparation, mulching, forest roads and infrastructure. Taiga Upland is built to take on the whole package, not just one piece of it. One contractor, one standard, one point of accountability. The handovers between disciplines stay inside our own team instead of being passed between separate contractors, which is where the risk on big programmes really sits.
We've got the scale to back it up. 30 forest-ready excavators in the fleet. A team of nearly 60 across the enterprise. Multiple full-time crews, directly employed, with the workshop and supervision to keep everything running through the season.
For foresters running serious programmes, that's the difference.
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