Emergency & Storm-Damage Tree Removal in Sea Point

Emergency Removal on a Sea Point property

Here the problem is usually public rather than private. A frond or a limb off a tall palm lands on a pavement that has people on it all day, and on cars parked nose to tail underneath it, so the first move is containing the area — cones and somebody standing there — not starting a saw. The second question is whose tree it is, and it catches residents out. The palms along the promenade, the pavements and the road reserve belong to the City of Cape Town, and that does not change because one has just dropped something heavy. Reporting it to the City is the route, and we will gladly tell you what we would say about that palm so the report has something concrete in it. Inside the boundary it is different — the courtyard tree, the one in the parking bays, the ornamental crowding the block. Those we can act on. Then it becomes a carrying job. There is no driveway to a back garden because there is no back garden, so it gets rigged, lowered in short pieces onto a mat, and walked out through the entrance hall or a service passage.

What we check before quoting emergency removal in Sea Point

Three things decide how this runs. Whose ground the tree stood on, which settles whether it is a City report or a job we can take. Who instructs us — on common property that is the trustees or the managing agent, not the resident whose car is underneath it. And when a truck and chipper can legally stand on a road that is busy from early morning, which we agree with the building rather than assume. On the tree itself we look hardest at old topping cuts. A great many trees in these streets have been cut back by somebody with a ladder, and the regrowth that comes back is heavy and held on by very little, so where one has torn out the rest of that crown is attached the same way. Salt-corroded braces and guy wires get checked at the same time. Residents get notice so the bays under the tree are cleared before we arrive.