May 5, 2015
For the first 3 months of the year, many of us are trying to undo the excesses of the Christmas period! For lots of tree surgeons, it’s chance to take a well-earned rest, recover from working in the cold weather and put a bit of fat back on in readiness for the...
Apr 5, 2015
In the few days between Christmas and New Year, we took the opportunity to walk off the Christmas excess a bit and explore the crumbling veteran trees in the water fields at The Vyne National Trust property just outside Basingstoke. To their credit, the Trust...
Mar 5, 2015
It’s coming up that that time of year when the volume of hedge trimming work will double. With that comes the responsibility to be aware of nesting birds, and that can be a cause of a short delay in the completion of planned works! Like all tree surgeons, we are...
Feb 5, 2015
We were off to a great start at the beginning of January when we took some of the team off for some accredited training on using Mobile Elevated Working Platforms – or MEWPs – as we know them.Use of a powered platform is becoming more and more common in the industry...
Jan 5, 2015
The Lighter Side of Tree Surgery There are Clear Risks and Dangers in Tree Surgery. But On the Lighter Side…We’ve blogged before about the importance of training, qualifications, experience and good tree surgery tree practice; there’s no room for amateurs...
Dec 5, 2014
Like many small and large business, Primary Tree Surgeons is CHAS accredited and has been for the last 4 years. CHAS is the Contractors Health and Safety Assessment Scheme. It exists to help businesses ensure that they comply with Health and Safety legislation....
Nov 5, 2014
We were amused recently to see, shortly after one of our regular team meetings, that we appeared to be scaling Big Ben to clean it…! We’d like to say that this was a special training exercise organised by Andrew to give the team even more variety in their work, but...
Oct 5, 2014
What a fantastic summer it’s been. The team has expanded again and we’ve welcomed Tom and Jay as our new trainee Arborists. For both of them, this summer has been all about building a good overview of the role, and getting their training well underway...
Sep 5, 2014
The Mystery of the Yew Tree Did you know that Yew trees can reach 400 – 600 years of age and there are around ten Yew trees in Britain (such as the Fortingall Yew in Perthshire and the Llangernyw Yew in Clwyd) which are believed to be thousands of years...
Aug 5, 2014
Tree Disease Thankfully this limb failure caused no real damage to people or to the adjoining property, but this is a good example of how unnoticed tree disease can have a serious impact.In this case, a limb had broken away and failed because the tree was riddled with...
