Used Plant & Equipment

Legacy Habitat Management have a number of items of used plant for sale.
Please visit http://www.wildlifefencing.co.uk/used_equipment for details of each piece of equipment, or call 0114 256 0106 for further details.

Machinery for sale:

AFT MH100 Excavator Mounted Trencher Unit
	Owned from new. Little use. Currently set to a cutting width of 150mm with a maximum possible depth of 1200mm. 360° turntable allows offsetting to any angle.
AFT Whizz Wheel 55 Trencher - 3-point Linkage Mounted Trencher Unit
	PTO driven trencher unit for cabling, drainage, pipe laying etc. High trenching speeds, clean straight trench. Height adjustable. Trenching widths from 50mm to 125mm with different tooth set-up.
Post Puncher - Excavator Mounted Fence Post Knocker
	Able to reach into awkward access locations. 200Kg post knocking weight. Overall weight: 385Kg Excavator pin sizes: 45mm diam Posts up to 280mm (11") diam

Photos from GCN Licencing & Mitigation Demonstration

A selection of photos from the newt fencing demonstration that we performed at the Great Crested Newt Licencing and Mitigation Course from November 2012.
See previous blog entry
This course runs in Autumn every year and is lead by Jim Fairclough of Golder Associates in association with Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (ARC-Trust).
Photos courtesy of David Orchard.

Matt installing ACO One-way
Amphibian Fence Panels,
a new addition to this year's demo.

Jim talking through a great crested newt mitigation
scenario with course delegates.

Explaining the benefits of Caudon Semi-permanent
Newt Fencing

Jim talking about the ACO One-way Amphibian Fence
and how this can provide maximum
great crested newt protection.

The ACO range of amphibian protection products generates
lots of discussion.
Seen here is the ACO Guide wall system for hard-landscaped
amphibian barriers or installing across hard standing surfaces. 

Myself & Matt after a busy but satisfying day

Another successful event and a great opportunity to meet some new ecology recruits and hear their comments about newt fencing installation and GCN mitigation. Lots of useful comments which can help us to develop our Caudon range of products. Also some very interesting discussions about ACO products and how these might help to develop great crested newt mitigation installations in the future.

* New Products - Plant & Tree Protection Products

Wildlifefencing.co.uk are now stocking Spiral Tree Guards and Tubex Tree Guards for your tree planting and hedgerow planting projects.

Both products are available in bulk orders and can also be supplied with canes and stakes to suit.

• Spiral Tree Guards - From only 14p each
• Tubex Standard Tree Guards - From only 64p each

Spiral Tree Guards provide an easy to install, cost effective method of protecting young saplings & seedlings from foraging animals such as rabbits, and from adverse weather conditions.

Made from 100% recycled clear plastic, they allow full UV penetration to give the plant the best chance of success.

Spiral guards can be left in place and expand as the plant grows.

Tubex Standard Tree Guards provide protection and insulation from foraging animals and adverse weather conditions.
The twin wall construction of the Tubex guards creates an internal micro-climate within allowing smaller, less well established, and therefore cheaper seedlings to be planted, reducing planting project costs.

Merry Christmas from Legacy Habitat Management Ltd

Wishing everyone a great Christmas & New Year from all at Legacy Habitat Management Ltd.

Great crested newts, licensing and mitigation - 27th-29th November

Legacy Habitat Management Ltd will be carrying out a newt fencing demonstration at the 2012 Great Crested Newts, Licensing and Mitigation Course - 27th-29th November 2012.

This course is run by Jim Fairclough, Senior Ecologist with Golder Associates, in association with Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (ARC-Trust) to bring together the theory and practice of great crested newt mitigation.

Real life case studies and examples of best practice will be used to identify some of the pitfalls often encountered when developing great crested newt mitigation projects. The course will give participants a thorough understanding of Natural England form WML-A14-2 and the skills needed to manage a great crested newt mitigation project from start to finish.

Further information can be found on page 9 of the ARC-Trust 2012 course programme.

Temporary Newt Fencing Repair Tape

I still see a lot of duct tape out on sites, used to repair temporary newt fencing with, and see it flapping around in the wind, not doing the job for which it was intended, leaving gaping holes in a newt fence.

Duct tape, or gaffer tape (apparently they are different) are no good for the purpose of mending holes, tears, or to make joins in polythene newt fencing. They are both great tapes for other purposes but are not UV resistant, or waterproof and don't stand up to the British weather for long periods of time. The adhesive on duct tape very quickly dries out when exposed to the elements and very quickly fails to retains it adhesion to the plastic newt fencing membrane.

Caudon Waterproof UV Repair Tape does exactly what it says on the tin, its waterproof, UV stabilised.... and it sticks. It can even be used when the newt fencing polythene membrane is wet. We didn't believe this at first but it does work and now always carry some when on temporary newt fencing contracts. Its tough stuff and retains it adhesion to the newt fencing membrane when exposed to the British climate and should continue to do so for up to 2 years.

If you're an ecologist, or site manager and have the responsibility of looking after a temporary newt fence and maintaining its integrity, get yourself a roll of Caudon Waterproof UV Repair Tape.

       

Caudon 50mm Newt
Fencing Repair Tape

Caudon 100mm Newt
Fencing Repair Tape

Available in 50mm or 100mm wide rolls, both are approximately 33m in length.

A tweeted photo of Caudon Waterproof UV Repair Tape in action from site

New Caudon Badger Gate Light (from £45)

We are now offering a new refined badger gate design for use with long or short term badger access and exclusion projects.

Caudon Badger Gate Light

This new badger gate design offers the same functionality and durability of the standard Caudon Badger Gate:

• Two way gate opening
• Locking facility for One-way or No-way operation
• Can be installed vertically in a badger-proof fence or at an angle in a badger-proof ground covering, over a sett entrance.
• Incorporates fixing holes to tie into surrounding badger proof mesh.
• Robust design & all galvanised steel construction.

The new gate design lowers the manufacturing costs by reducing the number of welds and the amount of material wastage. This is a cost saving that can then be passed onto the end customer. The main frame and gate components are laser cut from a single piece of 3mm thick sheet steel with the only welding required to affix the leg mounts, hinges and captive nuts for the locking mechanism.

Caudon Badger Gate Light
with legs

Caudon Badger Gate Light
Legs removed & gate
partially open

The new leg design means that the legs slide through the mountings making it easier to position the gate in the required location and then tap the legs into the ground without upsetting the position of the gate. This also makes installation easier in rocky ground where it is not always possible to tap the legs all the way home, potentially leaving a traditional gate design in the wrong position.

The legs can also be removed altogether as they are not always required, especially when fitting the gate into a badger-proof ground covering.

The weight of the new designed gate is also reduced and takes up less room in storage meaning that we can offer slightly better delivery costs than for the standard badger gate.

We recognise that some people don't like change and would still prefer to stick with a product that they are more familiar with, so we will still be offering the standard gate at the same time, for the foreseeable future.

Buy both types of Caudon Badger Gate at www.wildlifefencing.co.uk

We welcome any feedback about our products, new or old, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

0114 261 9478 or sales@wildlifefencing.co.uk