Tree cutting
Our services we offer in this area cover:
Removal - removing a tree to ground level.
Reduction - reducing the height and width of a tree.
Trimming - regular maintenance of small trees to maintain dimensions or visual appearance.
Formative Pruning - pruning of small tree and fruit trees to remove potential defects early on or increase fruit quality and amount.
Reshaping - reducing parts of a tree to produce a more visual pleasing shape or give better resilience to weather.
Targeted Pruning - reducing a certain section of the tree to maintain clearance or prevent failure.
Thinning - thinning out the canopy of a tree to allow more light or wind to pass through.
Lifting - raising the lower branches on a tree to give better access, views or maintain clearance.
Pollarding - reducing the tree back to major branch growth points in order to promote new growth at these points for easier management in the future.
Retrenchment - heavily reducing the canopy back to help prevent limb or stem failure in a declining or compromised tree.
Trees do not require managing to exist and live healthy, long lives. Trees in fields, up mountains and in forests can exist happily without the intervention of man or women.
Where people and their property reside alongside trees, there is invariably some management that will have to take place though. Trees grow and interfere with buildings, wires, block light, pose a hazard, get damaged and block views, just to name a few. Arboriculture is all about the management of these trees in this urban environment.
As trees are living, growing and dynamic entities, their situation never stays static. Their growth or an external force leads to them requiring some remedial works such as pruning or removal. Trees do not like to be cut with different species responding differently to this type of work. Cutting a tree can stress a tree by reducing its energy potential, opening wounds for infection and promoting weaker new growth.
At Finch we try to not lead with a cutting first approach but where it is required we try to recommend the minimal amount of work to fix an issue whilst also providing the most cost effective option. Tree do not require regular pruning in order to ‘keep it healthy’ but we take into account the concerns of our clients and offer advice to fix the issues they have. We aim to work to British Standards 3998:2010 Tree Work - Recommendations where possible.
Trees all have a lifespan and invariably do not go on living forever. We understand that tree pruning and removal is required to keep an area safe, allow construction to take place, to benefit other trees or to reduce conflict with a structure.
Trees are an important resource to our planet and as a company we are committed to planting more trees than we remove. Whilst replacement is not a direct substitute for removal, it hopefully goes someway to increasing or maintaining our tree cover.
