Tree Lopping, Removal, Pruning and Mulching in the Dandenong Ranges

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Our new Rayco mulcher has arrived and it got a test run at One Tree Hill on Mt Dandenong. We fell two tree’s then chipped the heads and branches.
The 8″ chipper can be towed behind a standard four wheel drive, and is fantastic for jobs where there are access limitations.
The mulch is produces is fine and consistent, fantastic to handle.

Rayco wood chipper

Our new chipper, chipping the tree branches back into the forest.

The two tree’s were part of a fire break easement that we were helping to clear. The wood was put into the forest using our excavator with the log grab.
By using our excavator on jobs like this, the manual, back breaking work of cutting up all the wood and rolling it aside is forgotten – allowing us to be more efficient and safer.

Cat Excavator carrying some logs down the hill.

Graeme carrys a log down the hill while rolling another with the excavator with the log grab.

Excavator 302.5
The newest employee of Sherbrooke Tree Service has arrived.

Our new excavator arrived just before Christmas. This will be used primary for the tree lopping and track maintenance work we do in Cardinia Shire and Yarra Ranges Shire. The excavator has a log grab, or ‘beck’, that is used to grab hold of logs and trees to reduce our handling time. During the fire clean up post Black Saturday, machines like this were invaluable for crews in handling large trees and branches. The excavator will have an angle grinder attachment in the near future, which will make large metal cutting a lot easier.

This excavator will also save a lot of the back breaking work involved in track clearing and track maintenance – another service which we provide as part of our tree hazard reduction in high visitation areas.

Used in tandem with our Lucas Mill, moving logs in and out of the processing area will be a lot simpler too!