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Recent projects.

Real jobs across Hampshire and the South, photographed on site. New projects are added as they finish.

Land clearance

Tree & scrub removal

Opened site after one week of land clearanceBeforeAfter one week

A heavily overgrown area opened up with operated plant, leaving a clear and workable site after one week.

Gabion basket wall

Retaining walls

Finished gabion basket wall around a gravel base
Excavator digging out the site for the gabion wall
Gabion baskets being filled with stone from a trailer
Filled gabion baskets with two excavators behind
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Site dug out, gabion baskets set and filled with stone, and the base inside laid to gravel. Landford, Wiltshire.

New pond

Ponds & water

The pond full of water with the liner still showing at the rim, the house and steps behind it
Excavator shaping the banks of the newly dug pond
The pond with its banks earthed over, the house above it
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A new pond dug out and shaped, the banks graded back, then lined and filled.

Pond clearance

Clearance

Pond visible and accessible after clearance workBeforeAfter clearance

Silt and overgrowth cleared back to open water.

Steel frame building bases

Concreting & bases

Concrete being poured from a volumetric mixer onto the reinforced base
The old timber barn on the site before work started
Steel reinforcing mesh laid over the membrane inside the shuttering
The finished concrete base with the shuttering still in place
Steel frames going up on the new base with a telehandler
The two clad steel frame buildings standing on their bases
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An old barn cleared, then the ground prepared and reinforced concrete bases poured for two new steel frame buildings.

Pond de-silting

Ponds & water

Excavator and tracked dumper at the overgrown edge of the pond
Long-reach excavator lifting silt out of the pond
Pond bed dug out and cleared of silt
De-silted pond refilling with water between freshly cut banks
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Years of silt and overgrowth dug out with a long-reach excavator, and the pond left to refill.

Stable block base

Concreting & bases

Stable block standing on its new base and stone yardBeforeAfter

Concrete base and ground make-up for a new stable block. King's Somborne, Hampshire.

Gravel trackway

Access & surfaces

New gravel trackway laid through woodland

A new access track cut, laid and compacted through woodland.

Hard standing

Access & surfaces

Excavator forming a hard standing

Ground stripped, levelled and finished to take vehicle weight.

Septic tank & drainage

Drainage & groundworks

Septic tank set into an excavated trench

Tank set, connected and backfilled, with the ground reinstated behind.

Site strip & levelling

Groundworks

Excavator and dumper stripping and levelling a site

Topsoil stripped and the site brought to level ready for what follows.

Pond construction

Ponds & water

Excavator clearing a water-filled ditch through rough grassland
Freshly cut ditch running away across the field
Excavator bucket over the newly dug ditch
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Ditches cut and cleared through rough grassland as part of a new pond.

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