A podcast of Graeme McMahon’s presentation on the topic of “Planning for maintenance, not removals” is available on iTunes from ISA. The audio follows the presentation slides, and runs through some of the tree removals Sherbrooke Tree Service has done
New Video: Nicholas Gardens Tree Removal Sherbrooke
The video editing is finally complete, and the video is uploaded! Removal of a mature Mountain Ash in the Alfred Nicholas Gardens during mid 2012. The tree stood over a spectacular rock water feature and entry area to the Gardens
Emergency Tree Work Eastern Suburbs
Some photos of an urgent tree removal we did a few weeks back. A tree had caught fire and the CFA was called to contain the fire. After bringing the tree fire under control, the decision was made to bring
Tree Removal Jobs of 2011
A short video of some jobs we did in 2011. 2011 was a fairly productive year with a fair variety of work. Tree Removal Bulk Fire Killed Tree Felling Tree Blasting Rope Access Rock Blasting
Tree Felling with Jacks Ferny Creek
Tree Felling Cockatoo
Having trouble with trees growing too big? This customer did. These were planted not that long ago, and quickly grew to an unmanageable size. Our Cockatoo Tree Removal service was called in to help fix the problem. The small trees
Urgent Tree to Remove off House in Cockatoo
An emergency job came up where a tree had fallen onto the roof of a house in Cockatoo. The tree had caused structural damage to the house, and the pitch of the roof made access quick difficult. When we work
Arboricultural Reports
Be very wary of well meaning arboricultural reports and opinions on the health of trees. Defect inside of trees is difficult to spot and often the opinions expressed are not based on experience of tree removals and storm damage work.
ISA 2011 Tree Climbing Competition and Conference
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.
Mt Evelyn Emergency Tree Service
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,
Storm Damaged Tree Removal
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
Small Tree Tree Removal Cockatoo
Removed a few trees at a property in Cockatoo earlier this week. One of the trees we lowered in one big piece. The tree was a reasonably small tree, leaning over a house. With a suitable high point, it can
Tree Rescue or Not Tree Rescue Article
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
Large Tree Felling Marysville
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
Tree Removal Emerald
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
Dead Gumtree Removal Avonsleigh
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
Tree Removal Warburton
Contract climbing for a Yarra Ranges based tree company a few months ago, and this photo was taken as we took the top of the tree out and caught it on rope. This meant we could preserve the owners precious
Helicopter Tree Lopping
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
Fire Killed Tree Removal Bunyip State Forest
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
Red Roo Chipper Dandenong Ranges
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