Gorse Clearance

Before Gorse Clearance

Tss travels all over Scotland and North England clearing gorse. This is normally done to create otherwise lost and unproductive ground, into areas that can be put back to agricultural use, which tends to be livestock grazing. Gorse is also commonly cleared so that trees can be planted in its place.

As of January 10th 2010 the single farm payment could not be claimed on agricultural land with large areas of gorse on it. The ground is deemed as unproductive land due to the gorse reducing the amount of available grass per acre for agricultural grazing. With the aid of a forestry mulcher the gorse can be cleared allowing the grass to come back and therefore bringing it back to productive claimable ground again, which then allows it to be claimed on the single farm payment.

Because of the growser type tracks and compactness of the mulcher, steep terrain is worked on and areas can be cleared that tractor mounted mulchers and other machines would have difficulty with. Also due to being on tracks you are left with no ruts or wheel marks and very little compaction.

After Gorse Clearance

What's Left After Gorse Clearance