The team at MSF Tree Surgery all have a love of trees and the environment, so all the work we do is done with great care and pride, we continually update are knowledge and skills to help us deliver the best possible tree care.
Below are the terms used to describe certain types of work we undertake.
Pruning
Selecting and removing potentially weak branches to help promote good healthy growth and shape.
Dead wooding
Involves the removal of deadwood. This helps to prevent decease, decay and reduces the risk of wood falling and causing damage to persons or property.
Crown cleaning
Removal of dead, dying, diseased, crowded, weakly attached branches from the crown of a tree. This can also help towards getting more light into shaded areas
Crown lifting
Removes the lower branches from a tree in order to provide clearance for buildings, vehicles, pedestrians and can also improve the shape of the crown and allow more light under the tree into shaded areas.
Crown thinning
Removal of certain branches throughout the crown to create an even structure that allows greater light penetration and reduced wind resistance. Branches that are touching or rubbing together would be removed to help reduce the risk of decease.
Crown reduction
Conserving a tree that may be outgrowing a confined space through carefully reducing its overall size whilst keeping it’s shape.
Pollarding
Removing a percentage (normally between 25% and 40%) of the crown of a semi-mature tree. The re-growth is then removed at regular intervals to restrict both the height and spread of the tree.
Felling & Dismantling
Although this is always the last option when necessary trees can either be felled, this is when there is enough room to fell the tree from the base, in most cases there are always buildings, roads and well kept gardens so the tree has to be climbed and dismantled in smaller sections so no damage is caused to the surrounding areas.
Dangerous tree work & Storm Damage
Occasionally trees can be damaged due to bad weather or were a dead or weak limb has broken, When this happens it is important to carry out maintenance to the damaged sections of the tree to help prevent decease and decay.
When necessary if the tree has become unsafe the removal of some or the entire tree may be necessary to prevent personal injury or damage to property.
Shaping
A combination of pruning activities to give an overall better looking shape.
Hedge Maintenance
Overgrown Hedges reduced in height and width,
Hedge Cutting,
General Hedge Trimming,
Hedgerow Maintenance.
24-hour call out service
We offer a 24hr call out service without any call out fees, we will only charge for the work which we carry out,
Please call Mark 07980 425 458 at any time and we will do everything we can to help.
TREES IN CONSERVATION AREAS
Trees in Conservation Areas are generally treated in the same way as if they were protected by a Tree Preservation Order; ie it is necessary to obtain the Councils approval for works to trees in Conservation Areas before they are carried out.
There are certain exceptions (where a tree is dead or in a dangerous condition) but it is advisable to seek the opinion of your Councils Tree Officer to ensure your proposed works are acceptable. Even if you are certain that you do not need permission we would always recommend contacting your local council.
Nearly all trees in Conservation Areas are automatically protected.
If you wish to carry out any work to a tree within a Conservation Area you must give 6 weeks notice in writing to the Local Authority. This is required in order that they can check to see if the tree is already covered by a Tree Preservation Order, or consider whether it is necessary to issue a TPO to control future works on that tree.
WHAT IS A TREE PRESERVATION ORDER?
Planning authorities have powers to protect trees by making Tree Preservation Orders.
The issuing of a TPO makes it an offence to cut down, prune, wilfully damage or destroy any protected tree(s) without first having obtained permission from the Local Authority.
All types of tree can be protected in this way, whether as single trees or as part of a woodland, copse or other grouping of trees.
TPO’s are recorded in the Local Land Charges Register which can be inspected at your Council offices.
When purchasing a property the official searches carried out by your Solicitor should reveal the presence of a TPO on the property or whether your property is within a Conservation Area within which trees are automatically protected. .
Contact your Council’s Landscape or Tree Officer for further information or if you prefer please contact ourselves CONTACT LINK. And we will find out the information on your behalf.
All trees deserve to be cared for so please if you don’t use MSF Tree Surgery please use a qualified and respectable company
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