Awesome Earthmovers were recently invited to experience a different form of earthmoving from what we’re used to. When UK forestry ground prep and site clearance specialists, Kingwell Holdings Ltd. mentioned their latest acquisition was called the Mega Plough, we had to go and see it in action.
The mega plough is a MORO Aratri MVP28A Extreme deep plough. A giant piece of equipment weighing in at nearly two and a half tons, and standing over 2m tall, which requires a tractor of over 400hp just to operate it. The MVP offers a rapid solution for soil inversion works, and is particularly suited to biodiversity net gain (BNG) schemes, ecology projects, habitat creation, vineyard establishment, and other specialist sites where mineral soil needs to be exposed or where topsoil layers require deep burial and where ground conditions would challenge other makes and models of plough.
With a working depth of up to 80–110cm, the MORO MVP28A can invert even deep topsoil or humic layers on ground where conventional machinery simply can’t penetrate. This capability makes it an invaluable tool for large-scale BNG schemes as well as land restoration, rewilding, and environmental management projects. Coupled to a big John Deere 8R, it makes for an impressive sight and delivers impressive results.
Kingwell’s deep ploughing contract service is available throughout the UK and Ireland and is suitable for a wide variety of soils and ground types, from agricultural and forestry land to disused industrial sites and virgin ground. The results on site are cleanly inverted soil profiles that expose the mineral layers needed for BNG specification, or when creating nutrient-poor habitat and all achieved with remarkable speed and efficiency. The ploughing is often accompanied by scarification, mulching of vegetation cover, stump grinding and deep tilling to break up debris and other woody material contained in the upper soil layers.
Kingwell Holdings History
In 1987 Justin Kingwell founded the company Kingwell Trees Ltd. A small forestry and tree contracting business which has now, nearly four decades later, become a large scale, specialised and technically capable environmental and forestry specialist contractor.
Today, Kingwell Holdings Ltd. provides a wide range of services, combining innovative heavy engineering with environmental expertise and experience. The company has built its reputation through unique approaches to forestry and site clearance, stump processing, mulching, biomass recovery, ecological engineering, and now UXO operations, all supporting major infrastructure projects across the UK including wind energy schemes, nuclear, powerline schemes, road developments, and large-scale habitat restoration projects.
A Specialist in Sustainable Earthmoving
Kingwell Holdings Ltd. mainly focuses their work on the more challenging end of operations, and associated companies in the Kingwell group include portable incinerators for control of invasive plant species, and emergency disease outbreaks, as well as a pioneering system for destroying live small-arms ammunition in post-conflict areas.
Alongside their environmental contracting operations, Kingwell also runs a full specialist operated plant-hire fleet, including tracked forestry mulchers, excavator-based stump grinders, heavy-duty shredders, and LGP excavator powerpack mulchers, enabling them to handle everything from land clearance and biomass recovery to de-mining operations and complex site preparation work where ecological and contamination constraints are present.
For more information, click here to visit the Kingwell Holdings website.