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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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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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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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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Fall Back – Trick or Treat! It’s that time of year again, the clocks have gone back and we are no longer in British Summer Time, the kids are thinking of Halloween, albeit with Tier 2 restrictions, whilst at BTAC, we are still working flat out as contractors in the equestrian, groundwork and agricultural sectors....
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Is the Autumn Only About Preparing For Winter? Although it can seem like it for many of the people we deal with in the agricultural sector, the autumn months are much more than making preparations for the onset of winter. That said, there are, of course, some key tasks that need to be started from...
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BTAC Invests At BTAC, we are always committed to offering our clients the very best services we can, I believe that forward-thinking companies should never stand still, in other words, if you can make improvements to your service offering, you should do so. That’s why we’ve recently taken the decision to invest in a...
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Hedge Cutting 2020 When July appears on the calendar it means that high summer has arrived at last. Of course, it also means that lots of things will be growing at their maximum rate. In turn, this causes a lot of problems with overgrown hedgerows which might not have been trimmed back for a year...
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