Aitch Conservation Ltd

We've completed over a kilometer of track maintenance for the National Trust in the Peak District recently. The track had deteriorated to a state making it barely passable with a Land Rover. The track is used as access for the Trust, farmers and gamekeepers and provides a valuable route on to the moors to carry out habitat management as well as access for fire fighting. The project included re-graded the badly rutted track which had been washed out and install drainage to tak

We've had a busy season of flailing this year. We finished it with a job for the RSPB cutting molinia. The work was to introduce a wider variety of species and to cut large firebreaks in an area dominated by purple moor grass. This work will also greatly improve the grazing for the farmer. Using the BCS Volcan Dualsteer we were able to work in some very bad weather on very wet ground without causing damage. The dualsteer gives complete traction and control all of the time. Co

One of our latest projects has been installing living willow dams as an innovative method of natural flood management on the moors around Marsden and Saddleworth for National Trust. The species was selected not to be too vigorous as to pose a management issue in the future and bundled into faggots. These were then transported onto the moor using a low ground pressure vehicle. The faggots were dug in and staked into the position in the gullies with turves stacked up and pushed