Aspect Forestry and Rural Management
@aspectforest
Timber harvesting contractors and woodland advisors. Achieving the most from your woodland with a flexible and conscientious approach. Established in 2004. www.aspect-forestry.co.uk
Started my daily walk before sunrise this morning. I really enjoy the quiet, still coolness at that time of day. No one else about! Sadly found this tawny dead on the road. Still warm so it had not long happened.
I am currently selling a parcel of oak timber on behalf of my client. 41 lengths. Total volume 2057 hft. It is located near Walpole, Halesworth, Suffolk. If you are interesting in placing a bid on the timber please drop me a DM.
Thank you. Busy weekend here catching up on a contract. Felling oak ravaged with AOD and our friend Agrilus biguttatus
With another site wrapped up and a move back to a client nearer home, it’s nice to have the machines washed before starting on a fresh site. It’s also nice to see rapid regeneration of the site I felled in autumn 2026. Aspen filling the void left by the ash.
At my last site ran this old rabbit fence on top of the wood bank. One of the estate workers said that he remembered the fence being put when he was a lad in 1965. Some of the posts are completely sound! How many fences being put up today will still have sound posts in 2087!!
East Anglian Royal Forestry Society division meeting today at Weasenham today by kind invitation of the Coke family. Magnificent softwoods and mixed species, continuous cover forestry. A lunch of Muntjac pies (shot in the wood) were also provided.
I pride myself on the quality of our work and the condition of our sites post operations. Today I have returned to a timber loading bay to clean it down of bark and debris, remove safety signs and adjust the gates. All our contracts are managed until the last job is complete.
This caught my eye this morning on my walk. A teasel head, very common but it’s natural construction make it complex and visually striking.
My morning walk around some agri environment plots in Cambridgeshire this morning. What seemed like millions of oxide daisy’s and common blue butterflies.
I made a site visit today to a coppice compartment I felled a couple of years ago. The woodland floor was covered in common spotted orchids. Encouraged by the increase in light levels this shows the vital importance of woodland management to sustain positive, rich habitats.
Something a bit different today. In a woodland I thinned last year I have been grinding and mulching stumps on the line of a new circular woodland walk. This is a diversification project for my farming client. Without the stumps the paths can be managed with a standard mower.
Pyramidal orchids just coming into flower locally on my early morning walk.
We have lived in our house 15 years and we have never had a Bee Orchid come up in the front lawn. I don’t know of any local populations. So where has it come from? Glad it did though.
I’ve just taken a wander down the lane to cool off, well sort of.
Terrible photograph. It just wouldn’t stay still long enough to take a good photograph. I am thinking speckled wood but the brown colouration seems too dark. Any thoughts anyone?
Our site in the Norfolk Brecks was wrapped up at the end of last week. 270 tons of brash resulting from 9ha of thinning at the end of the winter, was chipped and collected by A.W. Jenkinsons.
A grass hopper warbler at Redgrave and Lopham Fen early this morning. 🔉
Just a moment in May on a quiet Norfolk lane this morning. The sun was just filtering through after a heavy rain shower had passed through.
In the style of the Fast Show…. This week I’ve mainly been extracting brash. This was originally felled at the back end of the winter and will be chipped next week. It is used for a number of products including peat free compost and biofuel.
The harvester is also back in action. Its been away having all new running gear fitted. It’s quiet and smooth now - lovely!
We are having some beautiful sunrises at the moment in the east. On this mornings walk.
It made the BBC, both the local radio and the news website carried reports. These we’re heavily biased towards the protesters and contained information that wasn’t correct,
A lovely misty sunrise over the river Waveney this morning.