Woodland services
Professional management of woodlands and forest plantations
With over 30 years of experience we offer a full suite of services, from planning and management through to the practical and logistical challenges of felling, extraction, and the sale of forestry products.
This page records the practical work historically carried out by Woodland & Forestry Ltd.
Woodland management
Selective thinning, timber extraction, access work and practical maintenance planned around the condition and intended future of the woodland.
Rhododendron clearance
Careful hand clearance and follow-up management for invasive growth on sensitive woodland and estate sites.
Site and estate work
Past work ranged from individual awkward trees to coordinated estate and plantation projects.
Service pause
These services are not currently open for new enquiries.
Headline services
The eight we get
asked for most
Tree felling
Motor manual hand felling of hardwood and softwood, sized to the site and the ground conditions.
Thinning
Selective thinning to open a crop up, improve form and get light onto the woodland floor.
Forwarding & extraction
Low impact extraction, including tractor and winch work where a forwarder would do damage.
Hedge laying & planting
Traditional laying and new hedgerow planting, with guards, stakes and aftercare.
Tree planting
UK-grown stock with spirals, tubes and stakes, planted to survive rather than to hit a number.
Vegetation clearance
Scrub, gorse, heather and rhododendron, cleared by hand where machinery would be too heavy.
Wood chipping
On-site chipping of brash and arisings, either removed or left as mulch and path surfacing.
…and more
Thirty years means an unusually wide range for a small outfit. The full list is below.
Full capability
Everything we carry
out ourselves
Grouped so you can find your job rather than read a list of nineteen bullet points.
In the woodland
- Motor manual hand hardwood & softwood felling
- Thinning and low impact forwarding / extraction
- Woodland management & small-scale, low-impact forestry
- Continuous cover forestry
- Coppice establishment, restoration & management
- Fell to waste and ring barking
- Chainsaw sawmilling
Ground, access & habitat
- Woodland infrastructure — paths, tracks, rides, roads & ditches
- Turning and stacking bays
- Ride creation, widening & management
- Rhododendron manual clearance specialist
- Game bird habitat enhancement after rhododendron removal
- Heath land tree removal, gorse & heather sectional mulching
- Scrub clearance
- Hedge laying
Growing & supply
- UK-grown tree & hedge planting, spirals, tubes & stakes
- Timber sales
- Biomass self supply chip & log solutions
- On-site or over size firewood production from your woods
- Wood chipping
- Aspen fuel & bio chain oil for environmentally sensitive sites
Rhododendron clearance,
done by hand
Manual rhododendron clearance is slow, awkward, unpopular work — and it’s what we’re known for. No heavy machinery churning through sensitive ground, no chemical shortcuts where they aren’t wanted.
We follow it through properly: once the rhododendron is out we carry on into game bird habitat enhancement, so the ground earns its keep afterwards.
Still not sure? Just ring.
Talk it through with the family who cut and deliver your wood. We’ll help you work out what you need.