Our locally based team of experienced and professional tree surgeons are among Paisley leading experts on residential tree surgery and arboriculture maintenance. With over 10 years’ experience in the industry, we have a wealth of knowledge to carry out all aspects of technical tree surgery to the latest British standards.

Hedge Maintenance Paisley

All aspects of Hedge Maintenance & Conifer Work undertaken including Height Reduction, Shaping and Annual Maintenance.

Tree Surgeon Paisley

As with many specialist trades it’s often the case that people haven’t heard of an arborist until you need one. Tree surgeons look after the health of trees right from the beginning tasks of tree planting and nurturing your trees to the removal of established trees. Arborists and tree surgeons will decided if a tree needs to be felled, or dismantled in sections, its health condition and appropriate action that can be taken to maintain and improve its shape within its surroundings.

Need a Tree Surgeon In Paisley?

Tree surgeons have a unique set of skills. They need to be be physically fit to climb up and down trees, be competent and qualified to use and maintain specialist equipment and machinery and keep up to date on the latest advancements. Tree surgeons need to use maths to work out the height of trees and be knowledgeable about the different types of tree and the various funguses and parasites.

Tree surgeons can study for a foundation degree, higher national diploma or degree and relevant courses include: forestry, arboriculture, countryside management, forest management, woodland ecology and conservation.

Paisley Tree Surgeon – What Do We Do?

Being a tree surgeon is a dangerous profession and needs to be carried out by a qualified team. Risks include falling off or having a tree or branches fall on you. We work with dangerous machines and climbing and rigging equipment, a tree surgeon needs to be a qualified first aider and have the ability to perform a rescue if someone gets into difficulties whilst climbing a tree.

Tree surgeons must ensure the safety of the property and surroundings they are working within, most days we work in public spaces therefore we need rigorous health and safety assessments in place for each job to ensure the safety of the public, our workers plus the equipment and machines at all times.

Arborists and tree surgeons must be fully insured for public and employees liability insurance, if in doubt ask to see your tree surgeon’s insurance cover. Let’s take a closer look at what a tree surgeon does.

INSPECTION
The first thing tree surgeons do is discuss a customers requirements and examine a tree and the surrounding area. The tree surgeon will assess if the tree is healthy, if there is any disease, and if the tree itself is a danger. The preliminary examination will determine what next steps can be taken.

PRUNING
If a tree can be saved, the tree surgeon will decide what type of surgery and tree reduction can be operated on the tree. As a general rule no more than 30% of a tree should be reduced at any one time. Limbs and branches that carry disease or have died will be pruned to keep the problem from spreading to the tree as a whole. Pruning a tree should be carried out by an experienced arborist as working at height can be a dangerous task involving using a rope and harness and a climbing chainsaw to reach limbs that are higher up on the tree.

Pruning is also done to remove weight from a tree and keep a tree at a suitable size for its surroundings. Heavier trees are more likely to fall in high winds or when the soil it is in become too saturated from rain to hold its weight. By cutting back or removing limbs altogether, it makes the tree significantly lighter and less likely to fall. Crown lifting, crown reduction and crown thinning are all part of the service.

FELLING TREES
When one of your trees has an infection that is too widespread, it must be removed. The same is true if your tree is infested with parasites. Another reason that your tree may need to be taken down is the threat of it falling on a structure, such as your house. In such cases, tree surgeons will carefully take down your tree a piece at a time to lessen the chance it could fall and do damage to your home or other trees and plants in your garden. You may also no longer want to have a tree for example you may be landscaping, building an extension to your property or from an aesthetic perspective you want to remove it.

QUOTING PRICES
Tree Surgeons undertake work of a wide variety, so there is no one uniform cost for any given task we will undertake. Take felling trees as an example, trees are different heights with varying weights and dimensions. The surroundings including obstacles and health and safety assessments have to be considered by the tree surgeon. Disposing of trees is also a factor in the overall cost as is the cost of the labour. An experienced team will cost more but will perform the work at a higher and safer standard. So when it comes to quoting your tree surgeon should be factoring in all of these and be able to break down and explain the quote to you.

THE PAISLEY TREE SURGEON CAN KEEP YOUR TREES HEALTHY
If you are have a tree or trees that need looking after by a tree surgeon, we can help. Our services include: tree removal, stump removal, hedge trimming, pollarding, crown reduction, crown lifting or tree planting.