Service area
Land Clearing and Mulching, Hawke's Bay and Gisborne
Erosion-prone East Coast hill country, storm recovery work, and vineyard and orchard margins.
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Working in Hawke's Bay and Gisborne
Severe weather has shaped a lot of the work available in this region, and recovery clearing, reopening tracks, clearing slip faces and debris, and getting back onto country that became inaccessible, remains a regular request. Our machines are low ground-pressure and remote-controlled, which matters on soft and unstable faces where the risk of putting an operator and a heavy machine on the slope is the whole problem. Vineyard and orchard work on the flats is a different and steadier line of work.
The country here
Steep, soft and erosion-prone hill country on the East Coast, with the flats and terraces of the Heretaunga and Gisborne plains below it. The hill country is the defining feature: it slips, it is hard to get machinery onto safely, and it carries a lot of ground that has gone out of production because of exactly that.
What dominates in Hawke's Bay and Gisborne
- Gorse, widespread across retired and slip-affected hill country
- Blackberry, through gullies, stream margins and slip faces
- Old man's beard on bush margins and shelterbelts
- Regrowth scrub on land that has come out of production
Councils and compliance
Hawke's Bay Regional Council and Gisborne District Council
Hawke's Bay Regional Council runs the regional pest plan and a significant erosion and land management programme, while Gisborne District Council is a unitary authority covering both roles. Land stability and erosion carry more weight in this region than almost anywhere else, and clearing plans often need to account for it.
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Weeds we clear in Hawke's Bay and Gisborne
- GorseThe big one. Dense, spiny, seeds for decades, and it takes hold on exactly the slopes a tractor cannot work.
- BlackberryLow, dense, thorny and endlessly persistent. The classic gully and fence-line invader.
- Old man's beardA smothering climber that collapses whole bush margins under its own weight. One of the most damaging weeds in New Zealand.
- Woolly nightshadeFast, tall, toxic to handle, and a declared pest plant across most of the North Island. Second only to gorse for search interest.
Who we work for in Hawke's Bay and Gisborne
- Storm and disaster recoveryReopening access after weather, on ground that is now steeper, softer and less stable than it was.
- Farms and drystockRetired faces put back into production, fence lines made maintainable, and races reopened.
- Orchards and vineyardsShelterbelts, headlands and margins kept clean, with no spray drift anywhere near the crop.
- Conservation and restorationClearing pest plants off a site so it can be planted, without chemicals and without losing what is worth keeping.
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