Tree Services - Removals, Pruning, TPO Trees, Tree Surveys BS5837

A short list of just a few of the tree services we have to offer. Please click through to each section for more comprehensive information.

Tree Removal | Felling & Dismantling

Removing a tree can be dangerous without correct training and the equipment to do so. Here at Orchard we are fully trained to fell and dismantle all shapes and sizes of tree. Some are felled in the traditional methods where the space and situation are available, most are climbed using ropes and harnesses, lowering equipment is used to safely dismantle them from top to bottom.

Tree Pruning

Crown Reductions

When your trees get too big one option is a crown reduction. The entire canopy of the tree is reduced by a percentage of its size, eg. 25%-30%. Every branch is accessed and cut back to leave the tree in its natural shape, just smaller.

Crown Cleaning

Crown cleaning involves accessing the canopy of your tree and clearing it out of everything that shouldn’t be there, removing twisted and rubbing branches, diseased and dangerous limbs, and most importantly deadwood which posses a huge risk to anyone below.

Crown Thinning

Crown thinning is a practice similar to a crown reduction, the canopy is thinned of its branches by a percentage of its entirety. The major advantages to this practice is allowing more light to pass through the canopy onto the ground below, this allows better growing conditions underneath the tree and letting light into windows.

Crown Lifting

Crown lifting removes the lowest limbs of the canopy to balance its shape and size. Lifting can result in more clearance under the canopy as well as more light able to pass under.

Pollarding / Repollarding

Certain species of trees can be pollarded. This involves removing all branches to leave just the main structure of the stem for the tree to return and rejuvenate. Re-pollarding involves returning the new grown back to the previous pollard point for the cycle to start again.

Trimming & Shaping

Certain species of tree respond to regular pruning which means they can be shaped. Round, square, cones, spiral, pyramids and much more can be achieved with the correct care and attention.

Windblown & Dangerous Trees

Unfortunately trees fall over sometimes, this is a unforeseen situation which just needs to be dealt with, also trees can fail partly resulting in it being in a dangerous state, when these need to be removed special care needs to taken to result in a safe takedown.

Insurance Tree Work

When a tree does fall it rarely results in no damage happening, this is why we pay for insurance. We offer a full service from quote to finish, liaising with insurers and third parties fully to get the job done quick and with piece of mind.

Fallen Poplar Tree Clearance

Our client once had a fairly mature Lombardi poplar tree in the rear of their garden which has stood the

Fruit Tree Pruning & Care

Fruit trees need specialist care and pruning knowledge to result in healthy and plentiful cropping.

Tree Preservation Orders & Conservation Area Tree Works

Tree Preservation Order’s (TPO’s) protect individual trees, groups of trees and woodlands, preventing any work being carried out on such trees without an authorised planning application. Orchard give free advise and can submit an application on your behalf. Use the link to visit our dedicated page about Tree Preservation Orders & Conservation Area tree and planning.

Our client once had a fairly mature Lombardi poplar tree in the rear of their garden which has stood the test of time for nearly 50 years, the unfortunate current storm Ciara had other ideas, the nearly 70+ mph winds which came in from the West, which is an unfamiliar direction for the UK, normally experiencing Southerly or Northern winds. This coupled with its advanced age and what we discovered during the clean up of the aftermath, a quite serious Ganoderma infection. Ganoderm is a genus of polypore type fungi which is a white-rot type fungi with enzymes that decay the lignin and cellulose within the plant structure, which make the wood both strong and flexible. In our case the strength of the oncoming wind overcame the residual strength left within the structure of the tree, therefore it failed by fracturing at the basal area and effectively uprooted itself.

*Storm Ciara path map: Satellite imagery of Storm Ciara passing over Britain (Image: ZOOM EARTH)*

As this was an unforeseen accident which the homeowner couldn’t of stopped they decided to claim through their home insurance to cover the costs of the clearing up. We have become well versed in liaising with insurance companies over the years and in this case we provided our client with a detailed quote covering all the works which were to be carried out and our findings of what had occurred and possible reasoning why the tree had fallen, and to show there had been no foul play.

In total we had four gardens to clear, including the making good of the neighbouring trees including the what was left of the stump to allow a new boundary fence to be erected.

All in all a very successful job.

Windblown fallen poplar tree clearance — Windblown Lombardi Poplar

Fallen Poplar tree stem — Windblown Lombardi Poplar

For more information about our other services or how to enquire about your own quote for your insurance company follow the links.

And for more information about Ganoderma you can visit the Wikipedia page.