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Meet the Team
Welcome to Wessex Working Horses! Established in 2020 by James Foster and based in Wylye, Wiltshire. We specialise in horse logging, woodland, wild flower meadow and pasture management services using heavy horses. Horses are ideally suited to work in woodlands and with their minimal impact on the forest floor are able to extract timber from wet, steep and sensitive areas such as SSSIs. They are particularly useful in extracting products and timber from coppice, selective thinning or even in clear fell syste
Horses are ideally suited to working in woodlands and have done so for centuries. We use a variety of equipment with the horse to move the timber depending on the extraction route and length and size of timber. This allows an efficient use of the horse and a safe method to extract the timber in a variety of site conditions. We can also work alongside modern forwarders and machines to further increase our efficiency and economic viability. The advantages of horse extraction are: