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!
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