It comes down in sections

There’s rarely room to just fell it. So we climb it, take the top off, and lower the rest on ropes past the shed, the greenhouse and the neighbour’s fence. Nothing hits the ground that we haven’t put there.

A tall conifer stripped back to a bare spar, half dismantled, above the rooftops

Top comes off first

Then the limbs, roped and lowered

Spar down last, into a cleared space

Controlled descent on the big limbs. It’s slower than dropping them and it’s the reason nothing gets broken.

The work we get asked for

Felling and removal — right down to stump level, or left as a stump if that’s what you want

Reductions and thinning — taken back to the height you ask for, cut so the tree stays healthy

Crown lifting — branches off the roof, the gutters, the driveway, the window

Hedges — conifer and leylandii reductions, removals, cut back behind the fence line

Stumps — ground out or dug out, roots and all

Site clearance — boundaries cleared back so you can get access and get on

Ten feet of garden, handed back

A cherry sitting up in the phone lines and a privet hedge nobody had touched in years, taking the whole bottom of the garden. Tree out, hedge cut right back, and they got over ten feet of their own ground returned to them.

An overgrown privet hedge filling the bottom of a back garden and blocking the view to the tenements behind

Before

The same view with the hedge cut back to the fence line, the lawn reaching the boundary and the buildings behind now visible

After

Copper beech, tight to the house

Dismantled over the shed and the fence, then logged up and stacked so the customer had the winter’s heating out of it.

A large bare copper beech standing tight against a garage and back wall

Before

The same spot with the beech gone, open sky above the gable and the ground cleared

After

The cut face of the felled beech stump, growth rings and saw marks visible

What’s left when we go

Everything chipped and taken away, unless you want the logs — plenty of folk do, and we’ll cut them to length and stack them for you.

Stump ground out, or plugged, or left at the height you asked for. Driveway brushed. You shouldn’t be able to tell we were there apart from the light coming in.

A wind-blown tree lying over with its root plate torn out of the ground

“Cut them down before they fall down”

John wrote that during Storm Isha, after twenty-four hours of danger-to-life trees coming down. It still holds. The price of taking a tree down or making it safe is less than the insurance claim, the emergency call-out and the conversation with your neighbour.

When a storm’s forecast we put emergency teams on standby for windblown trees and fence repairs. The line is answered round the clock — call, text or WhatsApp and we’ll tell you honestly how quickly we can get to you.

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If there’s a nest in it, we stop

It’s happened twice that we’ve posted about and more times than that in the yard. You turn up to a job you priced months ago and there are chicks in it. So it waits until they’ve flown, and we come back.

We’d rather lose the work than be the outfit that took the nest down with the tree. If that pushes your job back, we’ll tell you the day we find it.

“Team were excellent, professional and safe and kept me informed at all stages with good advice on forward care for one of the trees.”

Robert, Paisley — August 2024, a large eucalyptus taken down while the new growth was left to replace it