Purchasing Online at www.wildlifefencing.co.uk

In a move to be able to offer our customers more competitive shipping costs for delivery of products ordered at www.wildlifefencing.co.uk, we have temporarily switched off the online payment part of the ordering process.

Products can still be ordered online via the website, we will then contact the customer directly by telephone to arrange payment, shipping charges and delivery. This has been done so that we can tailor a shipping method from one of our couriers that suits the size, weight and type of products ordered.

We can accept payment from all major credit cards over the phone or arrange an account (subject to terms & conditions).

ISO 9001

Congratulations and thanks to everyone at Legacy for achieving ISO9001 accreditation. With robust quality control processes in place the company is well placed to move forward with its development in 2011. ISO 9001:2008 is the International Standard for Quality Management Systems and is recognised worldwide. It is essentially a set of guidelines for running a company in such a way that customer requirements are satisfied first time, on time, each and every time. We hope to live up to these expectations.
The implementation was part funded by MAS and overseen by Hatton Parkinson Associates.

Caudon Newt Fencing Sledge

The recent snowy weather has not only brought on some hazardous road conditions and general travel chaos, but has also generated the usual rush to the shops for bread, milk and other essential items like... sledges.


This has led to the recent discovery that our Caudon 4mm HDPE Permanent Newt Fencing makes a most excellent sledge.

Cut into 600mm wide sections, meaning you can get 4 sledges out of one panel, the extremely hard wearing and smooth HDPE material glides perfectly across fresh snow, compacted snow and ice. The top fold provides a great handle to hold up the front of the sledge and used in a 'lying on your front' style, it can easily be steered with the feet.

Easily the fastest sledge I have been on this year. Buy your Caudon Sledge at http://www.wildlifefencing.co.uk

Legacy awarded CHAS accreditation.

Legacy Habitat Management Ltd are pleased to announce that they have been awarded CHAS (Contractors Health and Safety Assessment Scheme) accreditation.

We have undergone a 12 month assessment to demonstrate that we are compliant to a number of essential Health & Safety standards as set by CHAS including important elements of Health & Safety Law.



 The principle aims of CHAS are:

• To improve health and safety standards across Great Britain.
• To reduce duplicated safety applications for both suppliers and buyers.

At Legacy Habitat Management, we take Health & Safety very seriously with our primary aim to provide and maintain a safe place of work, safe systems of work, safe equipment and a healthy and safe working environment. Being CHAS compliant helps us to re-enforce this to our customers and be part of a national scheme to improve health & safety.

Legacy switches to Aspen Fuel

At Legacy Habitat Management Ltd, we use various bits of 2-stroke petrol driven equipment such as chainsaws, brush cutters, hedge trimmers etc but have often experienced reliability issues with such kit.

The nature of our work means that some contracts require these bits of equipment, but others don't, meaning that the equipment often sits idle for periods of time. It is after these periods of inactivity that we have found engines not starting or poor engine performance.

We have always used standard unleaded petrol, mixed with 2-stroke oil for this equipment, which we believe might be where the problems occur. When sitting idle, any fuel left in the equipment evaporates over time, leaving behind its constituent 2-stroke oil as a sticky residue. This blocks fuel lines and clogs up spark plugs, causing the problems we have experienced. Ordinary petrol also contains hundreds of different substances including unsaturated hydrocarbons that can cause of build up of residues in engines and carburettors. It is also these hydrocarbons, sulphur and olefins, along with substances such as benzene, present in ordinary petrol that can have some serious health & environmental consequences.

Aspen fuel, a type of Alkylate fuel is produced synthetically from the clean gasses released during the refining of crude oil. As there are already fewer impurities at source, alkylate fuel is a very clean fuel which only consists of around ten substances without the hazardous components such as benzene, aromatic hydrocarbons, sulphur & olefins.

Alkylate fuel runs cleaner, leaving fewer engine deposits and produces far fewer toxic exhaust emissions, this is both beneficial to the health of the operator and the environment, and will hopefully reduce our equipment repair costs.

Aspen fuel is available in the following formats:

• Aspen 2 - for 2 stroke equipment such as chainsaws, brushcutters etc.
• Aspen 4 - for 4 stroke equipment such as lawnmowers, rotavators, boat engines etc.

No modifications are required to equipment.

For further information about Aspen alkylate petrol visit Anglo American Oil Company ltd at their website: www.aaoil.co.uk/environment

Wildlife Fencing Design Guide & Working with Wildlife Site Guide - Back in Stock

Wildlife Fencing Design Guide & Working with Wildlife Site Guide are back in stock at www.wildlifefencing.co.uk.

These guides offer a great reference manual for anyone working in the wildlife mitigation industry. Visit the Publications page at www.wildlifefencing.co.uk for further information on each book.

Pdf examples of both guides can be viewed by clicking on the above images.

Baker Consultants Open Day

I would like to thank Andrew Baker and his team at Baker Consultants for a very interesting and enjoyable evening at their new Cromford Station premises.

The evening began with a warm welcome and introduction by Andrew, and an outline of the ecology landscape for 2011.

Senior Ecologist, Paul Howden-Leach then took over the helm and demonstrated the new Wildlife Acoustics SM2 Remote Bat Detector equipment. Paul recently took this equipment to the National Bat Conference at Loughborough University, showcasing its benefits over other products on the market and how its improved functionality can aid with bat call data analysis.

We then donned our boots and coats for a guided local heritage walk around Cromford, with an amusing and informative history talk about Richard Arkwright and his cotton spinning mill in the village. The return walk along the river was lead by Senior Ecologist, Kelly Clark who showed various bat detecting devises in use and explained some of the 'clicks' & 'cracks' made by the equipment and how these relate to different bat species and activities.

All in all, a very pleasant evening and a great opportunity to meet some of the Baker team. Very tasty scones too!