We have extensive experience of the tree industry. 

 

We adhere to all relevant legislation, including Health & Safety, and we wish to protect the environments created by trees whenever possible by taking a holistic approach to assessing and managing each site. Every member of our team carries out work with a duty of care including wildlife considerations and with minimum disruption to your garden or site, which will always be left in a safe, clean and tidy condition. 

 

We are able to provide the same team member on each visit, to ensure consistency of quality and knowledge of our client’s requirements. 

Crown lifting is the removal of the lowest branches and/or preparing of lower branches for future removal. Good practice dictates crown lifting should not normally include the removal of large branches growing directly from the trunk as this can cause large wounds which can become extensively decayed leading to further long term problems or more short term biomechanical instability. 

 

Crown lifting on older, mature trees should be avoided or restricted to secondary branches or shortening of primary branches rather than the whole removal wherever possible. Crown lifting is an effective method of increasing light transmission to areas closer to the tree or to enable access under the crown but should be restricted to less than 15% of the live crown height and leave the crown at least two thirds of the total height of the tree. 

The initial removal of the top of a young tree at a prescribed height to encourage multistem branching from that point, traditionally for fodder, firewood or poles. Once started, it should be repeated on a cyclical basis always retaining the initial pollard point, or bolling as it becomes known