
Maintenance of green roadside ancillaries
Manual
This document presents the various maintenance operations carried out on the vegetation cover of roadside ancillaries (mowing, brush clearing, weed control, tree and shrub pruning, etc.) and gives recommendations and practical advice for performing the tasks carried out by regional field units and highway maintenance plant pools.
This document presents the various maintenance operations carried out on the vegetation cover of roadside ancillaries (mowing, brush clearing, weed control, tree and shrub pruning, etc.) and gives recommendations and practical advice for performing the tasks carried out by regional field units and highway maintenance plant pools.
Contents
- Definitions
- Role of green roadside ancillaries
- Characteristics of green roadside ancillaries
- Green ancillaries maintenance approach
- General
- Why mow?
- When to mow
- The mowing procedure
- Why clear brush?
- Timing of brush clearing
- The brush clearing procedure
- Equipment
- Analysis of special cases
- General
- Herbicides
- Recommendations for use
- Other treatments
- Storing products
- Equipment
- Basic plant physiology
- General principles and recommendations
- Equipment
- The different types of tree pruning
- Maintenance pruning of shrub groupings and hedges
- Practical advice for pruning and felling
- Choice of species
- Choice of plants
- Choice of shape
- Planting
- Median maintenance
- Road cleaning
- Branch and leaf clearing and elimination
- Maintenance of vegetation on engineering structure
- Temporary road signing
- Health and safety aspects
- The fight against ragweed
- Lexicon (Extract from CCTG section 35) [10]
- Further information