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Black Craig (Scottish Borders)
The Black Craig harvesting site located near Innerleithen in the Scottish Borders is a great example of EGGER Forestry working with a Landowner and Stakeholders on a steep and challenging site to fell, extract and dispatch timber with minimal disruption to public access in a popular and well used public forest.
The site has a number of challenges being predominantly peaty, mean annual rainfall is 3,000 mm and the open westerly aspect is prone to exposed growing conditions and damage from wind.
This thinning operation is part of a five year contract and covers Nithsdale and the Borders and will support the growth of the Scottish Forestry sector. The main objectives of thinning control are usually to combine maximum timber yield in the long-term, with the maintenance of a regular supply of material from thinnings.
Barnshalloch Moor is a 70 hectare mixed woodland located near Balmaclellan in Southwest Scotland which is managed by DGA Forestry Ltd. It is composed primarily of productive conifers, predominantly Sitka spruce with some smaller quantities of hybrid larch and Douglas fir. The woodland owner’s primary objective was to create a native woodland, building upon the areas of birch, oak and Scots pine that were already established.
Our clearfell site in Spadeadam forest is just 50km from EGGER’s production plant in Hexham. Located on the southern edge of Kielder Forest, Spadeadam forest forms a part of the largest man-made productive forest in western Europe.
The High Borrans harvesting site located in the Lake District is a fantastic example of EGGER Forestry working directly with a landowner in order to deliver a quality service; felling, extracting and dispatching over 1,000 tonnes of timber in a short period of time.
The clearfell site of Whitestones Dipper is located in Harwood Forest, Northumberland. EGGER Forestry has worked within Harwood Forest for a number of years and has a very good working relationship with the Forestry commission and the local managers. The forestry commission recognise the high standard of harvesting work we carry out, in conjunction with our contractors.
EGGER Forestry has carried out a number of clearfell and thinning operations over the last few years on the estate.
This operation is the third time the stand has been thinned with the aim of each intervention being an improvement of the final crop.
EGGER Forestry has been operating consistently within the forest at Kidland for over 15 years and over this time has built up strong relationships with local forest managers.
The company has developed a specialism to plan and deliver safe harvesting operations whilst maximising the forest owners investment.