We were contacted by a new customer located in Bendigo, who was looking for a tree removal company to help with the removal of four large Eucalyptus trees, specifically Red gums, along with a number of smaller Acacias. The customer had removed trees on their property themselves in the past, but thankfully in this case they contacted the professionals – Ascent Tree Solutions – due to the size and height of the trees, as some of them were over 35 metres.
Anyone who has ever tried to lean a ladder against a tree and wield a chainsaw will know this is not the right choice to be making! We’re a team of qualified arborists and as such have expert equipment and a number of safety precautions to make sure we do the job safely, quickly all whilst safeguarding the customer’s property and our own workers. We use safety clothing, which includes PPE such as chainsaw pants, helmets, chainsaw boots and safety harnesses to climb the trees.
Due to the size of these trees, and the length of the branches, we set what’s called an anchor point in a strong and high fork in the tree. This allows us to walk along the larger branches out to the tips, and remove the larger limbs piece by piece. We can either direct the fall of these limbs, or if they’re particularly big, we’ll rig them with ropes and ‘flying fox’ them down to our groundsmen.
When it comes to falling the main trunk of the tree, we’ll use specialised cutting techniques on either side of the tree, which includes a wedge-shaped chainsaw cut called a ‘scarf’, and this allows us to fully control the direction in which the tree will fall. This is what makes us the experts, as we can drop the tree in the most narrow of locations due to our skillset and years of training in arboriculture.
Once the job is complete and the tree has been fully removed, then begins the fun part. The clean up! We’ll cut the larger branches into manageable pieces of wood, or firewood rounds, ready for the customer to use, and we’ll send the smaller branches and debris through our woodchipper. In this case, the customer wanted to keep the mulch, so we sprayed this into a pile in the corner of the garden. We finished up with a rake and a leaf blower to leave the garden tidy and the customer satisfied!
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