tree pruning | Dandenong Ranges

morning view

Long days call for early starts, and into trees recently spent a very long day high up in some huge Eucalyptus regnans (mountain ash). The trees loomed over a house and garage, so we removed deadwood throughout both canopies, then weight-reduced the overhanging branches as necessary to ameliorate the risk of branch failure.

All the branches and large deadwood were of course rigged down to protect the property below; in addition we performed a thorough crown-clean, removed mistletoe and gave the trees a comprehensive aerial inspection… and finished just before darkness! There were some tired faces in the car on the way home – but well worth it for a job well done and some fine looking trees.

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tree removal | crane work

Tyrone Oliver’s recent video is a nicely evocative overview of a two-day tree-removal job by Len McKeown Tree Services; into trees climber Joe Harris was brought in as a sub-contract climber, and is shown in the video rigging the crown out of the tree.

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hazardous tree removal | tree rigging | Mt Macedon

tree rigginginto trees recently made the trip up to Mt Macedon for a couple of days spent removing a large, decayed eucalypt.

Although the upper canopy and even some of the higher structural timber was solid – and heavy! – the lower trunk had several pockets of advanced decay.  The crew took it slowly and carefully, often using a secondary rigging line to control swing and limit shock loading.

We were lucky enough to be able to stay onsite, so our morning commute to work was a fifteen second walk down the garden.  By early afternoon of the second day the tree was on the ground and we could start cutting firewood… lots of firewood…

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