river clearance

[nebie12]

hi does river/canal clearance work exist been thinking about it and would like to find out more just for interest like

[markieg31]

Most rivers it would be the responsibility of the environment agency in which case it is masses of paper work to be one of three contractors on the framework. Canals may be worth a look thou

[detritus21]

Alot of canal tree work is done by tilhill/fountains or whatever they are called nowadays. Rivers and canals are mainly canal and river trust responsibility who have preferred contractors such as above

[wicklamulla]

Alot of canal tree work is done by tilhill/fountains or whatever they are called nowadays. Rivers and canals are mainly canal and river trust responsibility who have preferred contractors such as above

 

 

 

OCS/Fountains used to /still do alot of this work?

[woody paul]

Done some in the past and not a job I like every thing wet or gets wet, always a job to stand in the right place to cut stuff off. Not a job I would want to do every day or week .

[Tom_Arb]

I spent two weeks clearing out a river , it was under a regeneration programme so the money was coming from a government budget rather then the local authority or water agency lots of lovely dead logs winched out plus a few bikes 10 shopping trollies and a lorry full of old shoes.

[Watercourse management]

It's a great job,getting cold and wet in winter and then get eaten alive by horse flys during the summer. We contract to the drainage boards who then contract to the ea,good paying work we use a 14 and 8 ton 360 and a 15 inch chipper to get rid of the tree waste.

[Stubby]

A company called " Land and Water " did a bit round here a couple of years back . Think the Environment agency subbed them in . River was backing up and the main soil pipe down the valley was shooting up out of the man hole covers . Took a while but they sorted it ..

[Matthew Storrs]

We had a string of sizeable river clearance jobs a few years ago to improve salmon spawning grounds for Westcountry rivers trust- to date they ahve been amongst my favourite jobs iv ever done- nice big bonfire, digger and grab to pull it all out of the water and load the fire- we just had one of us down in a river with a saw and another in the digger up on the bank in the field- simple setup but got loads done in a day- then had to fence all along, couple of km in some cases:thumbup1:

 

Seems to have gone quiet though on that front- think funding dried up a bit.