Starting the job riddling through the first stump heap
The parking area for our machines
The start of the removal and riddling of the first stumps from the ditch
The new bucket fitted
The riddling bucket building the first heap of stumps
The bucket is equally at home on broken concrete
We had the support of local government organisation evaluating local mitigation/translocation of slow worms, adders, greass snakes and common lizards
The white bucket for translocation of all protected species that followed me everywhere on the site.
Some of the old stumps were well embedded in the old canal bank
Project information
Riddling Details
Wichelstowe is a residential development and urban extension of over 4,000 new homes with a supporting communit, on the southern edge of the town of Swindon, constructed from late 2006. Located north of the M4 motorway between junction 16 and Croft Road, Wichelstowe has three neighbourhoods: East, Middle and West Wichel.
The ground was a woodland area around drainage dtiches feeding to the Wiltsh & Berks canal with the stumps and concrete blocks of its former use. With the use of a riddling bucket and a root rake the whole area was cleared of all the rubble and stumps and presented for the attentions of a large stump grinder and chipper.
This was a really enjoyable job, removing the old stumps around the edges of the old canal and tributary ditches and streams.