Tree Lopping, Removal, Pruning and Mulching in the Dandenong Ranges
The tree climbing and arboricultural conference is finished until next year! The “Trivect “and “Planning for Maintenance, not removals” presentations were well received.
Graeme will be heading up to World Arbor Camp tomorrow to do some additional talks.
We had another emergency tree removal job today. A small tree had uprooted from the ground and was leaning out over the neighbours house and water tanks in Mt Evelyn.
Mt Evelyn is in the foothills of the Dandenong Ranges, not far from
We couldn’t tell what exactly was holding the tree up – obviously it was branches, but by themselves they were not really strong enough to hold the tree in place.
The main priority on these kinds of jobs is getting the tree stabilised so it can fall no further. During the main storm damaged tree season, this can be difficult to achieve; it is darker sooner, often wet or rainy making everything heavier and more slippery to handle. In this particular case we had two strong high points, reasonably close to the tree that was tipping out of the ground. We also had enough daylight left to make the job not require extra lighting. There are some photos of the tree being rigged up and stabilised.
If you need help with trees that cannot be done by emergency tree services such as CFA or SES, we have the equipment and expertise to stabilise the tree.
If you need a quote for your trees call 03 5968 8041 or 0428 383 677.
CONTACT US IF YOU NEED ASSISTANCE with storm damaged trees.
Emergency Storm Damage Tree work is our bag. We have access to a huge variety of rigging and stabilisation equipment to make storm damaged trees safe.
Sherbrooke Tree Service is turned to by contractors nationally for dangerous trees, storm damage and emergency works.
What makes us different?
We are a light weight, highly experienced organisation that has built a business around complex tree removal for over 35 years.
Our equipment surpasses many of the large tree organisation and the experience housed in our small crew is incomparable with most tree practitioners.
When a storm hits, our company is the goto for fast, safe response.
Trees on homes, caught up in other trees, splitting and tipping out of the ground are all part of what we do. We have access to heavy cables used in skyline operations that can lift whole trees, helicopters, tree jacks, slings and 50+ ton lifting pulleys. In extremely hazardous situations, we use explosives to remove or reduce the hazard to a manageable level.
What will it cost?
Cost varies significantly from job to job. Sometimes we cannot safely complete the job in the weather conditions, we decide this on each job. Often we can stabilise the job and make safe for completion in better weather and daylight.
We provides quotes prior to commencing any work, and can discuss with you the options available.
The current Australian ArborAge magazine has an exert written by Graeme in regards to Tree Rescue as discussed on an earlier post titled Tree Rescue Article in ArborAge.
A pdf exert of the magazine can be downloaded from here. ArborAge Feb/Mar 2011
We’ve been doing some work with the Department of Sustainability and Environment in Marysville, cabling mature Mountain Ash away from a public access area.
We used tree jacks for many of the trees, others we set large cables and winched over with the DSE D4. The object of the works was to make safe a walking track that passed below many of these dead trees. Graeme has decades of experience in mature tree felling, which makes the task of assessing and planning for works a lot easier in the forest environment.
In many of the below photos you will notice most of the trees are felled from boards. These are used in steep terrain where it is difficult to safely work on the tree.
Sherbrooke Tree Service removes tree’s of all sizes, and can have your tree simply dropped our completely removed using our chipper and excavator!
You can keep the mulch, or have us take it away and dispose of it.
Contact us to arrange an obligation free quote.
Removed several dead trees from a home in Avonsleigh that were over the top of the children’s cubby house, neighbours clothes line, fence, garden, gazebo and an incinerator.
Nothing was damaged, and the job was done using our well adapted dead tree removal techniques.
I was contract climbing for a Yarra Ranges based tree company a few months ago, and this photo was taken as I took the top of the tree out and caught it on rope.
This meant we could preserve the owners precious garden below, but still remain efficient in the tree removal process.
Angus takes the top of the tree out, and catches it on rope; allowing it to be safely lowered to the ground without damage to the garden below.
We had two interesting jobs on today – one at William Ricketts Sanctuary and another at Burnham Beeches.
This brief post is about the job at Burnham Beeches where we used a helicopter to remove some storm damaged limbs from the forth story roof of the building.
There was insufficient access to use a crane, and a large crane would still not do the job as efficiently. There were no significant highpoints within reach of the roof top, and extensive gardens either side of the building would not allow material to be thrown from the roof.
The sheer volume of the branches, spread over two storeys would have meant they would need to be propped to stop the branches from falling further and doing any more damage.
When we release a longer video, there will be a more in depth explanation of why we used a helicopter for tree lopping and storm damage in the circumstance – compared to conventional rigging or craning techniques.
Special thanks to Mike Dunn from Heli-Serv (www.heli-serv.com) and Tim Shannon.
The four wheel drive tracks throughout Bunyip State Forest were affected by the Bunyip Ridge fire. A large number of hazard trees were assessed alongside the track and were marked for removal.
In October/November 2009, Sherbrooke Tree Service was engaged to open these tracks before the recreational four wheel drive season started.
Aside from the tricky access issues on the four wheel drive tracks, all the works went to plan and the trees were safely removed.
Fire damaged tree over the car park is trimmed with a travel tower
Felling a dead tree across the track
The walking track to the waterfalls needs trees removed
Another one leaves the stump
Aside from removing trees already blocking the track, trees that were going to block the track later were also removed
Trees that had asthetic or habitat importance were pruned and left
Trees marked for removal may have been affected by nearby trees
The intense fire killed many trees. Due to the intense heat very few of these will recover, however the forest is already showing signs of coping
Dead tree over popular 4WD pull over area is removed
Bunyip Ridge in Cardinia Shire had harsh fires that created many natural hazards
We hired one of Red Roo’s 730X chippers for some work we were doing in the Alfred Nicolas Gardens which is part of the Dandenong Ranges. Jim Kerr from Red Roo kindly took some video of the chipper doing what it does best.
A large Eucalyptus regnans out the front of William Ricketts sanctuary needed to be removed. William Ricketts Sanctuary is located in Melbourne’s south-east in the Dandenong ranges, and is managed by Parks Victoria.
Graeme accesses the tree and rigs a branch for lowering.
Lowering the branches using a variety of techniques.
This climbing video is also on youtube in HD!
Graeme descends onto a dead and rotten tree so that he can safely work on it. After lopping out the head, the rest of the tree is blocked down.
When the tree we are removing is too dangerous to climb or be attached to normally, tree loppers will often gain access from another high point. This particular Mountain Ash was over the top of a high visitation walking track, and was one of several dead Eucalyptus regnans that needed to be removed for public safety.
In the main entrance to Sherbrooke Forest, there was a large Eucalyptus regnans which had three 120′ long branches overhanging the car parking area. Graeme removed these by lopping each and catching it onto itself in order to protect the facilities below. To do this safely, Graeme needed to be able to egress from the departing limb and stay clear of the spar. The video shown is the first of three.