• The Wood Chipper

    The Biomass boiler has been in operation at Croft Castle for over 7 years and a regular supply of wood is required to keep the system running. Timber is brought from the estate and stacked in the wood yard where it awaits the mammoth wood chipper which is employed to…

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  • Bracken Rolling on Croft Ambery

    This summer you may have seen Crunchie with two of his cobs working in the wood pasture or perhaps on the lower rampart of the Iron Age Hill Fort as depicted in the video clip above. The Cobs were pulling a roller which is used as a low impact method of…

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  • Separating the wood from the trees.

    Much of the work we do as ranger volunteers is related to helping to maintain the woodland. Throughout the parkland there are numerous ancient and veteran trees, interestingly all have been tagged and their positions recorded in recent times; when looking at old maps of the estate there is evidence…

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  • Clear Felling Croft Wood

    For many decades the skyline at croft has been tree lined with coniferous species; much of this has been commercial forestry owned by the Forestry Commission who have a lease on about 700 acres of the Croft Estate. The current trend throughout the country is to reduce the amount of conifer and…

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