Urban Tree Surgery

Urban trees offer huge benefits to cities and their inhabitants: From the aesthetic value of greenery and the biophilia effect – the positive mental health and wellbeing impacts of being near nature – to the now well-researched contribution that street trees make to...

Work Experience

In most roles, work experience is useful when you’re learning…there’s only so much you can get from a “full time” college course which actually only runs for three days in the week which also has to cover the essentials of basic tree identification, biology, soil...

Working Safely at Height

Once the leaves are off the trees, we can really see the reach and stretch of the MEWP making the felling of this leaning Sycamore much safer and more efficient.  There will always be a case for an experienced climber to work from the tree from a rope and...

Careers in Arboriculture

This is Oliver, and some great pictures of him practicing his climbing at Sparsholt College where he is studying his Level 2 qualification in Arboriculture. Oliver works with us when he’s not at college and is making good strides in building his skills, knowledge and...

Domestic Tree Work

We’ve written regularly about the way we use mobile elevated working platforms in practical tree surgery, and how valuable they are in helping to increase safety and efficiency when we’re working at height. This job below is a good example to show why we will always...