Forestry

Bamford Tree Management offers a complete forestry service for small woodland owners and estates. We offer woodland management advice, with guidance on habitat management woodland value and markets, right through to felling, extraction, planting, fencing, deer control and pest management.

Felling 

Carefully placed cuts are used to fell trees in a predetermined direction, either when they have reached their final rotation or for other reasons such as safety or conservation of other species. Using a range of advanced techniques and equipment they can often be felled against a natural lean.

Thinning

Removal of a proportion of the trees in a given area. Typically in a single species stand this can result in a final crop of better quality trees whilst delivering some returns during the growing cycle. Alternatively it may be to remove an undesirable species, (such as conifer plantation on an ancient woodland site) or to create improved conditions for natural regeneration. 

Coppicing  

Much of the local native woodland has been managed using coppicing, whereby the trees are cut on a cycle of anything from 3-20 years, new shoots from cut stumps rapidly emerge and go on to replace the felled trees. Trees that have been coppiced in the past and then left beyond the previous rotation (lapsed coppice) are often susceptible to decay and failure.

Extraction

Most products need to be moved somewhere to either be sold (normally convenient landing and described as at roadside) or further processed and we do this using a tractor & timber trailer combination.

Planting

If coppice or naturally regenerated seedlings are not sufficient to bring an area up to acceptable stocking levels then planting can be employed to make up the shortfall, often protected individually or perhaps by a fence.

In addition we can also arrange larger scale contract harvesting, further on site processing (mobile sawmills, woodchiper for fuel) as well as access to woodchip, fencing, firewood, sawlog and beam markets.