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What will the Thenford estate garden team make of the latest hand-tool offerings? Sally Drury finds out.
Whether maintaining parks, sports grounds or trees, the sector offers a wealth of opportunities, Graham Clarke reports.
As fears grow over the impact of budget cuts on tree maintenance, Hannah Jordan looks at latest developments and one team bucking the trend.
Beech bark disease is most likely to attack trees with trunks that are more than 20cm in diameter, although it can also be a problem on young plantations. The disease occurs when heavy infestations of beech scale insect (Cryptococcus fagisuga) make e...
How to buy - Handheld tools Buying the best tools that you can afford will pay dividends in the long run, says Sally Drury.
How to buy - Amenity herbicides Sally Drury answers questions about the latest weed control products to appear on the market.
How to buy - Chainsaws Innovative technology is delivering improved performance for petrol chainsaw users, says Sally Drury.
How to buy - Tree guards and shelters Protection against a wide range of threats is essential for healthy tree development, says Sally Drury.
How to buy - Shredders These machines are ideal for reducing bulky, soft, wet green material, Sally Drury explains.
How to buy - Arboriculture kit New ropes, platforms, saws and clothing are all available to help tree workers, says Sally Drury.
Founded in 1993, GreenMech has a history of good ideas. The EcoCombi must be regarded as one of the best. It was one of the first machines from the Warwickshire-based company and it is as good today as it has always been. Being road-towable and eas...
Although it can chip wood up to about 55mm, the Eliet Major is predominantly a shredder. We take it to the compost site, where a pile of prunings and old herbaceous plants awaits. This is an entry-level professional machine, compact for transport and...
Inventor Jozef Beauprez - that is where the name "Jo Beau" comes from - built his first woodchipper in 1999. It was mounted onto a Walker ride-on mower. It worked so well that the 13hp M300 and 24hp M500 soon followed off the drawing board. Now the c...
Clever twin-chamber technology gives this heavy-duty petrol-engined multi-shredder the capacity to tackle a wide variety of garden waste, making it suitable for the larger garden and maintenance contractors working from a small van. It could not be s...
Delivering more horsepower, torque and reliability than the same capacity two-stroke engine, the new Makita MM4 four-stroke engine is powering the company's line-trimmers, brushcutters, leaf blowers and high-pressure water pumps. The engine is curren...
Designed for use with compact tractors, Wessex Professional and Country ranges of trailers have been added to Broadwood International's portfolio.
Netherlands-based Natural Plastics has developed a tree support system that it says offers a more sustainable solution.
Etesia UK has announced the appointment of Golf & Turf Machinery, based in Wakefield, as its new dealer for the full range of Etesia and Pellenc ground care equipment across Yorkshire.
Seven models of Bugnot shredder, with capacities from 100mm to 200mm, are available from Ryetec Industrial Equipment.
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