May 5, 2021
Urban trees offer huge benefits to cities and their inhabitants: From the aesthetic value of greenery and the biophilia effect – the positive mental health and wellbeing impacts of being near nature – to the now well-researched contribution that street trees make to...
Apr 5, 2021
In most roles, work experience is useful when you’re learning…there’s only so much you can get from a “full time” college course which actually only runs for three days in the week which also has to cover the essentials of basic tree identification, biology, soil...
Mar 5, 2021
Once the leaves are off the trees, we can really see the reach and stretch of the MEWP making the felling of this leaning Sycamore much safer and more efficient. There will always be a case for an experienced climber to work from the tree from a rope and...
Feb 5, 2021
This is Oliver, and some great pictures of him practicing his climbing at Sparsholt College where he is studying his Level 2 qualification in Arboriculture. Oliver works with us when he’s not at college and is making good strides in building his skills, knowledge and...
Jan 5, 2021
We’ve written regularly about the way we use mobile elevated working platforms in practical tree surgery, and how valuable they are in helping to increase safety and efficiency when we’re working at height. This job below is a good example to show why we will always...
Dec 5, 2020
When they fail, trees don’t care where they land, and as we have seen from the news when the weather is really bad, that can have terrible consequences. Thankfully, no one was hurt when this early-mature Alder went down over the river Loddon in a domestic...
Oct 5, 2020
A bit of a binary choice, and of course like most small businesses, we need to do both. Our team is a great mix of people who have joined us with little or no experience of tree surgery and those with all the existing experience and qualifications we need....
Sep 5, 2020
This blog comes by way of an update and hello to any regular readers – any of you out there? – in the very strange conditions we’ve all been enduring since the start of Spring. Who could have predicted that 2020 would turn out as it...
Aug 5, 2020
Once upon a time, tree surgery was completed almost exclusively by unqualified people who were fearless about climbing trees and “dropping” the tops out of them. People talked about “topping” the crowns out of large trees and boasted of the sheer physical...
Jul 5, 2020
Practical tree surgery encompasses a wider range of works than some people might first imagine. As well as pruning and felling trees, we provide tree health assessments and tree reports which set out a foundation baseline of the condition of your trees, and a...
