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About me
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I, Oliver, set up my business back in May 2023 following my passion for the outdoors and working in the countryside. I enjoy fishing small syndicate waters in my spare time for carp with my personal best being a 51 lb common that I caught in Berkshire. I personally love what I do for work and enjoy every job that I go to as I always see each landscape as a new adventure. The outdoors is where I grew up and is where I belong. I decided to start my business after spending many years in the countryside. Working with livestock and fauna as well as spending every day outside is such an amazing opportunity to have and I make sure to savour every moment of it.
My passion started when I was young and I used to regularly go fishing with my grandad and my brother where I realized I was born for the outdoors. I love every day that I work and every job I go to. I also love to help people and doing a service that they may not be able to do themselves and seeing them happy with the end results gives me great pleasure. I am a very family oriented person and live at home with my wife and my son who I plan to one day share my passion for the outdoors with.
Once I had finished my GCSE’s I decided to go to college to further my knowledge in fishery management and found myself enjoying every practical and written assignment I received. After I had completed all my training in the fisheries industry I furthered my knowledge and went into the businesses of horticulture, arboriculture and forestry, giving me a large skillset to one day start my own business. I now hold A-levels and a large portfolio in fishery management, horticulture, arboriculture, forestry and aquatics. I further hold all of my licenses to do the work I do safely such as my chainsaw license, waste carrier license and importantly spend a lot of time fulfilling Environment Agency documents to ensure the movement of any live stock is done properly and carried out professionally.
What kind of business are we?
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Here at Crawford Countryside Services we are a family run business aiming to help people with our low cost services. We are a countryside consultancy company specializing in landscape gardening, fishery management, ponds and aquatics as well as tree surgery. We are a very friendly and reliable company in the sense that we always have our customers in mind and will not leave the job until you're happy with the outcome. We aim to help people in any way possible, one of the ways we are trying to achieve this is by undercutting other companies quotes and costs to ensure that everyone can get the services they want without an enormous bill.
Our business is one of the first zero carbon footprint countryside consultancies in the country using top of the range tools from brands such as Stihl, Electrafish, Collins and Hyundai. Our company always has the environment in mind and this will never change. We use all of the newest models with lithium ion interchangeable batteries to maintain our Eco-friendly commitments and our larger equipment is all run on Eco-friendly fuel containing zero harmful components having an amazing ability to fuel our tools while leaving absolutely no carbon footprint whatsoever. All of our tools are serviced at least once a week to maintain them and ensure they do the job properly. Furthermore all of our seine nets, dip nets, electro-fishing gear and fish cages have been handcrafted over weeks by true professionals at collins nets and electrafish ltd. We always make sure to dip and disinfect every net, tank, pair of wellies, waders, kit and dry suits prior to use at any venue if we've been there one-hundred times or never before there is never any affect to the health to your fish or your site.
