Crushing bracken using horse power
Posted by admin on September 7, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Conservation experts will be using horsepower to help control the growth of bracken around historical sites in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. A special horse-drawn roller has been brought in to crush the plant around the exceptionally well preserved and extensive earthworks of a large group of cultivation terraces dating from pre-Roman times near Threshfield. [...]
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