Utilities: electricity – overhead lines, generation or supply companies.

Water – river authority, canals, drainage authority

Railways: de-vegetation work

Roads: motorways and major road networks.

Local Government: housing, open spaces, county highways, in-house Arb section, in-house Landscape or Grounds Maintenance.

MOD Establishments: Maintenance Contracts or MOD works.

Estate Management and Maintenance: New build projects, refurbishment, or routine maintenance of housing estates, both public and private. Agricultural estate management. Supermarket or Retail Shopping Centres. Business Parks.

Institutions: Health Authorities and Hospitals, Educational Establishments, Prisons

Leisure: Golf Clubs, Leisure centres, Amusement Parks, Zoo and Wildlife Parks, Hotels, Parks and Gardens.

Charity Groups: Work for long term un-employed or re-habilitation of offenders.

Recycling: Recycling or local composting groups. 

Forestry: Ride establishment, Coppice work, thinnings or Crown Lift.  

Wildlife or Regeneration Work:  Coastal re-establishment work, Rhododendron removal, other "non natural" species removal. Reclaim work on SSSI.

Domestic Arb-Works:   The Conifer problem. General tree surgery or landscape works.

Plant Hire:

Utilities: The Regional Electricity and Generation/Supply companies have a constant battle to remove trees and vegetation from their installations. If trees touch the overhead lines it can cause an "outage" whereby no electricity can be supplied. The resulting loss of revenue is tremendous and the Health and Safety implications are horrific. Weather conditions also have to be taken into account when "Line work" is considered, not only do trees grow upwards, but in the summer the lines expand and drop into the trees, in the winter the overheads can be weighed down by frost or snow.

Railways: The Rail Authorities have a large programme of "De-Veg" work, cutting back trees on embankments and cuttings for a number of reasons. The implications of a crash due to fallen timber or an unsighted signal do not bear consideration. A fair amount of de-veg work also takes place for the renewal of their boundary fencing. The maintenance of other railway property has also to be taken into consideration.

Roads: The major road network of the UK is patrolled for potentially dangerous trees or situations where correct management is required. All new roads are planted with trees and shrubs as part of a landscape project. Trees grow big!

Local Government:  Local Government have a huge responsibility to maintain their property including any trees and grounds maintenance or Landscape works. Some have their own in-house or DLO organisation, others sub-contract out the work to a variety of national or local contractors.

MOD Establishments:  MOD establishments or Crown Property is also duty-bound to maintain their habitats. Some work is sub-contracted out to national or local contractors. But we have sold woodchippers to the Bomb Disposal people!?!

Estate Management or Maintenance:  There are sub-contract companies who specialise in the maintenance of Retail or Shopping Centres, Business Parks or Industrial zones. For example, one supermarket chain has come to the conclusion that the benefit of the shrubs that they planted some years ago is out-weighed by the problem with litter and rodents inhabiting the beds. Some privately owned housing estates run their own Landscape or tree teams.

Institutions:  Machine shave been sold to Area Health Authorities, Prisons, Schools and Colleges for maintenance work as well as Arboricultural colleges as part of their teaching remit.

Leisure:  Golf Clubs, Amusement Parks, Zoo and Wildlife parks, Hotels, Stately homes and parks and gardens have also featured on our database as users of woodchippers, shredders or stumpgrinders.

Charity Organisations:  There are charity groups that specialise in "re-skilling" the long-term unemployed in land-based skills including landscape works, or for the re-habilitation of offenders to "change their direction in life".

Recycling:  This market can have many forms, Farmers looking to diversify, shredding, chipping or composting material. People obtaining grant money to enable them to breakdown pallets on industrial sites. Local composting groups and recycling projects. Biomass wood fuels, animal bedding or woodchips to mulch are only a few.

Forestry:  Small-scale forestry projects can be a market for our woodchippers. They could be used in "ride" establishment, coppice sites, initial thinnings or crown lift work. Tracked machines have been utilised on sapling clearfell sites for birds nesting sites.

Wildlife or Habitation Regeneration:  Woodchippers have been used with regeneration work, getting rid of non-natural species of shrubs, undergrowth or trees. On some sites where the likes of Rhododendron have been allowed to grow wild, woodchippers have been used and the stumps then destroyed to prevent re-growth.

Domestic Arb-Works or Landscaping:  The greater majority of tree surgery falls into this category; the "Conifer problem" is bread and butter to the majority of Arborists. Big trees in built up areas require an awful lot of monitoring and care. The tree surgery people who do this work are a major part of our market.

Plant Hire.  A great deal of independent tool and plant hire outlets would like to have smaller machines or indeed specialist machines to run on their plant hire register. This is to service all the above market sectors.

EU re-cycling objectives:  It is the EU’s declared objective to be re-cycling up to 75% of all green/organic waste by the year 2005, the EU and National Governments are creating legislation and taxes to achieve their objective by the following means: