Emergency & Storm-Damage Tree Removal in Newlands

Emergency Removal on a Newlands property

Newlands trees mostly do not snap. This suburb takes more rain than anywhere else in the country, the ground under these canopies never properly dries out between May and September, and what gives way is the anchorage rather than the wood. So the call here is usually a whole tree over — trunk intact, root plate lifted, a crater of lawn standing on its edge where the roots came up with it. Where it lands is the local half of the problem. The older streets are narrow with cars down both sides, so a mature oak or plane going over from a front garden spans the entire road, and it is not only your morning that has stopped. Most of these plots have no rear access either, which means everything comes out the way it fell: down the front and onto the street. One extra step applies in this suburb. If the tree that failed is a box elder, or an oak with borer in it, the wood gets chipped where it stood rather than carted off — moving infested wood is how the beetle reaches the next street.

What we check before quoting emergency removal in Newlands

The first thing we look at is whether the plate is still moving. A tree that has lifted and then stopped against a wall or a neighbour's roof is holding a lot of stored energy, and the order of cuts depends entirely on what is bearing on what. We check the crater as well, because the hole a lifted plate leaves is deeper than it looks and gets walked into in the dark. Then the practical Newlands things: where the chipper and tipper can legally stand on a street with cars down both sides, agreed beforehand rather than found on the morning; whether the lawn is wet enough that we mat or plate the route before any weight crosses it; whether borer means chipping on site. And whether the trees left standing had been sheltering each other, because one going over changes what the next front does to the rest of them.