Removal and felling process

When there’s no or little room beneath the tree, or if there are vulnerable items under the tree, we use climbing, speed-line and lowering rope techniques to dismantle your tree branch by branch in small chunks. A speed-line can lower a branch somewhat away from the tree to a suitable landing spot. Climbing techniques are the best and most secure way to protect valuable property close to the tree. It is the most controlled and precise way to {dismantle|remove|take down|fell} a tree. In case your tree has to be removed, we can use climbing spurs and a flip-line or lanyard to climb your tree. In case of tree trimming, no climbing spurs are used because they will harm your tree and attract diseases.

Our procedure to fell a tree

Each tree and each situation is different. That said, there are some usual steps in de process of felling a tree. I will try to briefly explain them to you.

1. Setup

When we arive, the first order of business is to arrange the van, trailer, and applicable machines such as the chipper and stump grinder in the most convenient place. That will be the first thing we will discuss with you. Also the route through the garden and fences for the hauling of the branches and trunk will be discussed. For our setup we need space. Particularly in the center of the bigger cities this can be a real problem and it is always recommended to try and block parking places before we arrive.

2. Inspection of the area beneath the tree

After we situated our van, trailer and machines, we look for vulnerable objects in the area around the tree. We will discuss what to leave and what to put in a more save spot. Mostly it is a better decision to (temporarily) remove vulnerable objects, plants and (parts) of a vulnerable fence. Rather than paying for considerable extra time to lower all branches away from the tree area. This takes so much more time and money that the trouble of temporarily removing objects is mostly the better choice. But sometimes moving objects is not an option. For instance with sheds, barns, and other buildings that are close to the tree.

3. Inpection of the tree itself

As the area beneath the tree is cleared as much as possible from objects and precious plants (if possible), it is time to inspect the tree itself. Are there no occupied bird nests in the tree. If there are, we will have to wait till the offspring has left the nest. We will discuss with you how we are planning to cut or trim the tree. The more you understand what we do, the better our cooperation will be. Especially when you are assisting with hauling branches or lowering branches by rope.

4. Climbing UP

Our climbing strategy depends on the width of the tree. In the case of thin trees, we cut of the branches we encounter when climbing up. In wide trees, we first climb to the top to set our “anchor point”, then come down to start taking off the lowest branches and work our way up again.
Oftentimes we create a “cushion” of branches that will smoothly catch the falling trunk pieces once we start cutting the trunk of the tree.

5. Climbing DOWN

Once all branches have been cut off, only the trunk remains. From top to bottom we chainsaw cut the trunk in smaller pieces and either lower them by rope or let them fall if possible.

Note:

A lost of what we do up in the tree is done with a battery powered chainsaw. This makes less noise than a gasoline powered one. Is better for the environment and saver to