What Tree Surgeons Offer
Have you ever heard of tree surgeons? Also known as tree climbers or arborists, tree surgeons are individuals who are trained to carry out all kinds of tree work including tree planting, care and maintenance and hazard assessments. Their main mandate is to keep trees healthy and looking beautiful. Here are five tree surgery techniques they use to achieve their goals.
*All of which our Tree Surgeons Nottingham department are fully qualified to offer*
1. Tree
Just like human hair, trees also need to be thinned regularly. This technique involves selective removal of unwanted branches to reduce crown density. A tree climber is able to tell how much of these branches need to come out. Once the amount of thinning is determined, these trained professionals then begin the actual work of removing branches from crowded areas. The end results are beautiful trees with improved air and light circulation.
2. Tree pruning
Tree pruning involves cutting away dead or overgrown branches, especially to increase growth and fruitfulness. An arborist uses special techniques to reduce the risks related to pruning. One of such techniques is Natural Target Pruning; a practice that makes use of the branch collar to identify the proper location to remove a branch. They avoid cutting the tree at its branch collar because that will spread rotting into other parts of the tree.
3. Crown cleaning
The crown of trees requires regular maintenance to avoid weak branches, splitting, and fallen debris. An arborist uses two techniques when carrying out crown cleaning. These include the removal of dead wood as well as crossing and rubbing branches. Dead woods cause debris to fall while crossing and rubbing branches cause branches to split or become weak. Another option for keeping trees healthy is to cut their crowns. The main objective here is to maintain the shape of trees and to prune back its branches back to life.
4. Tree Felling and Lowering
Tree felling and lowering is another technique that arborists use especially when building developments are getting in the way of the nearby trees. These professionals are asked to bring them down or manipulate them in a way that doesn’t harm the tree completely. The main objective is not to do away with such trees but to control them. Some of the methods of tree lowering they use include cradling, but roping and tip roping.
5. Bracing
Tree bracing is the installation of flexible braces and steel strand cables in trees to minimise stress damage from the weight of ice or snow, heavy foliage, and high winds. The main objective is to help strengthen weak branches so that they are able to improve their longevity, withstand severe weather and reduce potential risks. Your local tree surgeon can help you examine bark or large codominant stems in order to identify particular weak points. After identifying weak points, they proceed to install flexible braces and steel strand cables in those trees to support weak tree branches and minimise stress damage.
Recommendations
As you can see from the above techniques, there is so much work that goes into keeping trees alive and glorious. If you are concerned that your trees need some work carried out on them, you can contact our own tree surgeons for expert advice and guidance on what to do next, contact Canopy Tree Services Nottingham, 14 Silbury Close, Clifton, Nottingham, NG11 9GE, 0115 832 0247, http://www.canopytrees.co.uk/tree-surgeon-nottingham. We can provide a comprehensive range of tree services from care, maintenance, cutting, pruning to more advanced work such as felling and removal.
