What Do Tree Surgeons Do?
Tree Surgeons do a lot more than just cutting down trees, something which is often forgotten. Their other responsibilities include maintaining trees’ health, planting new ones, removing stumps, and providing expert assessments.
Here’s a more comprehensive rundown of these important responsibilities:
Quotes, Advice, and Assessments
The first thing Tree Surgeons do comes way before harnesses and chainsaws. It’s extremely important to get an accurate assessment of the potential problems so the most appropriate steps and measures can be taken. This stage involves a discussion about what needs to be done, how long this may take, any impacts the work may have, and how much it’ll cost.
Maintaining Trees
A common job for Tree Surgeons is to prune trees and remove their dead branches. This will improve the relative health of the tree and, in extreme circumstances, will stop the tree from collapsing altogether.
Pruning a tree and removing its dead branches improves the health of the tree in two ways. Firstly, it allows more light to hit the healthier branches. Secondly, it means that the tree’s nutrients need to be spread out over a smaller area. Combined, these two factors are what improve the tree’s health after it’s been tended to.
Removing Trees
A core responsibility of a Tree Surgeon is to understand the balance between trying to recuperate an unhealthy tree and choosing to remove it.. Removal usually occurs when the tree poses a threat to people or to a significant amount of its surrounding vegetation and wildlife.
The actual process of cutting down a tree has a few key stages:
- The climber will work their way from the top of the tree to the bottom and cut off its branches until only the trunk is left.
- Whilst one team member ensures the safety of the public, another strips branches as they fall so that the workspace is clearer and therefore safer.
- The climber will then cut chunks of tree from above them as they move down to the bottom.
- The remaining stump will then need to be removed. This can be a difficult process but Tree Surgeons have the specific tools required to grind them down so they’re easier to remove.
Planting Trees
Although it’s not what comes to mind when thinking of a Tree Surgeon, part of their job is also to plant trees as well as cutting them down. To ensure that your future tree has the best start to life then you should ask for a Tree Surgeon’s advice. Their knowledge of trees and hands-on experience will be invaluable and will ensure that your tree is the healthiest it can be from the get-go. For example, sometimes heavy machinery and cables are used to ensure that the seed is planted most optimally.
Tree Surgeons do more than hacking branches. Their responsibilities include maintaining the health of trees, removing trees, planting them, providing assessments and advice, and ensuring the health of other people, surrounding vegetation, and other wildlife by executing these responsibilities correctly.
If you have any further queries about Tree Surgery or would like to book an assessment, then don’t hesitate to get in touch with Ace Tree Surgeons by calling us on 0150 847 049 today!
