Emergency & Storm-Damage Tree Removal in Bishopscourt

Emergency Removal on a Bishopscourt property

Height is what makes a Bishopscourt storm call different from one lower down. A failure thirty metres up on a tree in a terraced garden cannot be assessed from the patio with a torch — you can see that something has gone and not much else. So the first thing that happens is a proper look at the whole tree, from the ground and then from inside it, before a single cut is made. Slope is the other half of it. On these stepped gardens nothing that is cut free simply lies where it lands; it runs. That is why we dismantle from the top down under rope up here even when there is no building directly underneath, lowering onto whichever terrace is clear and then carrying or winching the timber back to where the truck is standing. There is an honest limit to that after dark. Some of these jobs we can make safe at night and no further, and we will say so on the phone rather than arrive and discover it. A hung-up piece is worth clearing at midnight; a full dismantle on a wet slope is daylight work.

What we check before quoting emergency removal in Bishopscourt

We are assessing the tree as a whole, not only the part that broke. Where the tear is, how much crown is left and on which side, whether the trunk has split below the failure, and whether the root plate has shifted on ground that drains down through these gardens all winter. Trees up here grew shoulder to shoulder, so taking one out changes the wind loading on every neighbour left standing around it — that gets looked at while we are on site rather than after the next front. Then the ground itself: which terrace can take a landing, how far the carry is back to the driveway, and whether that route is steps rather than lawn. Machinery mostly cannot reach these trees, so the price reflects rigging and carrying rather than felling. Work outside normal hours costs more, and we tell you that before we come out.