Paslode help protect birds in Highland Fling
Paslode cordless nailers and staplers are well known for working under difficult conditions where power is not available, but even the wilds of the Scottish Highlands was an unlikely site even for Paslode. The tools were used by Scottish Woodlands Ltd to strengthen and modify kilometres of deer fencing to help protect one of Scotland’s endangered birds, the Capercaillie.
One reason the birds are becoming scarcer is that they were getting entangled in the 1.5 metre high fences erected to protect wooded areas from destruction by deer. Scottish Woodlands worked with Balmoral Estates and the RSPB to devise a solution to this problem which involved fixing thousands of one metre-long wooden droppers made from local, sustainable softwood, to the fences to make them much more visible to the Capercaillie.
Because Scottish Woodlands needed to fit so many of these droppers, they needed to find a way to fix them quickly, safely and economically and using an old-fashioned hammer would have been too slow. So Scottish Woodlands purchased ten Paslode Utility Staplers and literally thousands of staples.
The weight of the wooden droppers also made it necessary for Scottish Woodlands to carry strengthening work on fence posts and struts to make them able to cope with the added weight and potential snow loading. For this heavier work they used Paslode IM350 cordless gas nailers – the perfect solution in such a remote location where no electrical supply was available and some of the sites were so inaccessible that men and materials had to be brought in by helicopter!
