Tree Surgery & Felling

We offer complete tree surgery services in Dorset, Hampshire, Berskhire, Wiltshire and further afield. With extensive experience in tree care we can advise and carry out the work required to ensure your trees maintain good health. Where necessary a range of arboricultural services can be performed, whether to ensure there is enough clearance for paths, roads and buildings, improve the structural integrity of the tree, natural light penetration or for health and safety risk management.

Tree removal is a highly skilled operation and carried out with precision by our highly qualified team. Safety is always given the utmost consideration, trees being strategically dismantled with specialist equipment to avoid risk to people and the surrounding property.

All arboricultural practices are carried out to the British Standard BS3998 recommendations for tree work 2010.

Tree Surgery Services

  • Formative Pruning

    Contributes significantly to the ultimate shape and size of a tree and may help to avoid the need for more drastic surgery at a later date. This practice is carried out at the trees young age and determines whether it will be feathered or clear stemmed, whether it will have a central leader or be branch headed, and whether the tree will be single or multi-stemmed.

  • Crown Lifting

    This practice includes the removal of the lower branches in order to achieve clearance from the ground for footpaths, roads and buildings.

  • Crown Thinning

    Selected branches are removed to increase light penetration and the movement of air through the crown of the tree. It leaves the overall shape of the tree unchanged and is defined in terms of a percentage (normally between 10% to 30%).

  • Crown Reduction

    Reduction in height and/or spread of the crown (the foliage bearing portions) of a tree by a certain amount in meters. This can increase the structural integrity of the tree.

  • Deadwooding

    This involves the removal of dead branches within the canopy of the tree that would be considered a hazard and a health & safety risk.

  • Ivy Band

    Removal of a band of Ivy from around the base of the trees trunk’s circumference.

  • Pollarding

    The initial removal of the top of a young tree at a prescribed height to encourage multi-stemmed 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.

  • Felling/Tree Removal

    Removal of a tree via a direct fell or aerial dismantling technique with specialist rigging/lowering equipment to prevent any damage to property being caused.

  • Best Practice

    We comply with the current legislation that regulates arboricultural operations:

    • Town & Country Planning Regulations (Trees)
    • Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
    • BS 3998:2010 and 5837:1991
    • The Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981
    • Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations (L.O.L.E.R.)
    • Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations (P.U.W.E.R.)
    • COSHH (Control of Substances Hazardous to Health)

  • Insured & Accredited

    Arboricultural services from a company you can trust:

    • Arboricultural Association Approved Contractor
    • CHAS accreditation (Contractors Health and Safety Assessment Scheme)
    • NPTC & ROLO LISS/CSCS Certified Staff
    • £5,000,000 Public Liability Insurance
    • £10,000,000 Employees Liability insurance
    • Health & Safety and Risk management documentation

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