Tree Clearances for Boundary Maintenance… Here at BTAC, we do a lot of boundary maintenance work for both agricultural customers and private homeowners. I will often be talking to someone about fence repairs, ditches or clearing shrubs and hedges. One of the trickier aspects of boundary maintenance involves trees. This is because trees...
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Five Types of Excavation I get asked a lot about BTAC’s excavation services these days. Especially during the winter, the groundworks part of the business is often very busy. Typically, we’ll be asked to clear sites prior to a change of use. Often, this will mean digging the trenches needed for new foundations and...
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Dangerous Septic Tanks! In rural communities, like many of those we work in, there are more septic tanks than you would find in the average town. This is usually because it would not be economical for the water company responsible for sewerage in a particular location to install a mains sewer. As such, it...
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Weather Changes I am used to working outside in all weathers. Of course, sometimes baking in the cab of a tractor or one of the excavators we used for groundworks jobs, it can often be uncomfortable. That said – and I think most of the team at BTAC would agree with me – I...
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How to Prepare Uneven Ground for a Track or Driveway If you want to make an impressive driveway at the approach to your home or need to improve access to part of your land with a suitable track for motorised vehicles, you do not necessarily need it to be completely flat. Both agricultural paths...
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Halloween! As agricultural contractors, we are outside for long periods of the day at this time of year, making the most of the daylight hours we still have. In October, I really notice the difference especially towards the end of the month. Perhaps this is why our ancestors associated this darker time of the year...
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September – The Month For Harvest Festivals I always associate the month of September with harvest festivals. It is the final month of the summer and the traditional month of harvest festivals. This is because harvest festivals always tended to follow the lunar calendar rather than the 12-month one that had been in use...
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Celebrating Eight Years of BTAC! In the rush of the last few months – with all of the new customers we’ve taken on, the demands of our existing clients and the needs of our own staff – it almost escaped me – BTAC turns eight years old this month! All I can say...
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August Blog – Lammas Day ‘High Summer and First Harvest’ Traditionally, Lammas Day falls on the first of August. It is principally a Christian festival that is celebrated in the northern hemisphere to mark the high point of summer and the oncoming harvest. However, Lammas Day also has pagan roots. Known to pagans as Lughnasa,...
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The Long Summer Holidays As we move into the high part of the summer, I tend to think back on family holidays of years gone by – those with my own family and when I was a boy. Of course, like last summer, this one, in all likelihood, is going to be very different...
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