Iker Iturria
29 years old. Combines Boralan with his job as a firefighter. He took the course in climbing and pruning techniques at height.
Three young people
taking on heights.
"Most people say we're crazy." — Iker, Beñat and Jon, from Lesaka.
What do we do?
Specialists at height.
We are a company specialised in pruning at height and felling large trees. We work in places machinery can't reach and cut costs by not needing it. We work with climbing techniques and controlled dismantling.
We manage pruning and felling waste.
Since 2024 Lesaka · Bortziri
The team
Iker, Beñat and Jon.
Three locals from Lesaka, rooted in the area's farmsteads, with a chainsaw always close at hand.
Beñat Ordoki
26 years old. Combines the business with his job at a workshop. He calls the trade "hard" for combining the chainsaw with heights.
Jon Erro
29 years old. A bricklayer, deeply into wild boar hunting. "Most people tell us we're crazy," he laughs.
Our story
How Boralan began.
"We've known each other from the village forever," the three say in unison when talking about Boralan's beginnings. The project came about when they heard that a course on climbing and pruning techniques at height was being taught in Madrid. "A friend of ours did it and we thought we'd like to do it too. We fit the profile because we'd always worked around the farmstead with chainsaws and ropes, and we understood it."
They then took another course in work at height with an official certificate. The next step was to start with small-scale jobs, close to home. "That's where we started. We saw there weren't many people doing that and we had the right profile."
"Nos llaman cuando se trata de árboles peligrosos o que presentan algún riesgo. Sitios inaccesibles, básicamente."
The jobs have come from different areas, mainly in Bortziri (Cinco Villas), and they especially remember felling a tree in Ventas de Igantzi. "The crane was 32 metres high and it still couldn't reach the top of the tree," Erro recalls. "We've done some great jobs, but every tree is different. Sometimes the difficulty is the height, other times the surroundings…"
This year they've already managed to expand into the Basque provinces and other parts of Navarre thanks to their good work and their activity on Instagram, where they explain their work in a visual, hands-on way.
In the media
People talk about us.
Television interview
We were interviewed about the trade.
You can watch the full interview on our Instagram profile.
Diario de Navarra · DN Management
"Three young people taking on heights: 'Most people say we're crazy'"
Report by Lucas Domaica on Iker Iturria, Beñat Ordoki and Jon Erro, the young people from Lesaka behind Boralan, in the 'Maneras de emprender' series.
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