First For Trees - Tree Surgeon West Midlands

Tree Surgeon & Tree Care Services for Bridgnorth, Shropshire, Telford, Kidderminster, Stourbridge, Dudley, Wolverhampton, Hagley & West Midlands

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First For Trees Limited offers the complete professional tree service. As a fully qualified tree surgeon, the company operates a full care, management and consultancy service. Roadside trees are our speciality. We service a large area of the midlands providing not only tree work but othere services such as stump grinding, fencing, landscaping and site clearence.

First for Trees operate in the following areas: Bridgnorth, Shropshire, Telford, Kidderminster, Stourbridge, Dudley, Wolverhampton, Hagley and all around the West Midlands.

First For Trees - Company Profile

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Your complete tree care & consultancy service

First For Trees Limited offers the complete tree service. As a professional arborist, the company operates a full tree care, tree management and consultancy service. Roadside trees a speciality.

Tree surgery
Tree cutting
Tree removal
Tree felling
Stump grinding
Tree stump removal
Crown reduction
Hedge trimming
Arboriculture

Services

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Tree Surgery

First For Trees Limited provides a full Tree Surgery service comprising the following:

Tree felling and removal
Crown reductions
Crown Thinning
Crown Raising
Pollarding
Dead Wooding
Hedge and Conifer Reductions

Hedge Cutting

Hedges that are too tall or too big can be reduced in size to suit any requirements. This may be to allow more light into a kitchen window or simply to improve a view. We provide a full Hedge Trimming service comprising the following:

Reduction
Trimming

Stump Removal

Stump removal reduces the risk of any diseases and pathogens being retained in the area that might have been living on the tree and prevents diseases occupying the stump after the tree has been removed. First For Trees Limited uses high quality stump grinder equipment, capable of efficiently dealing with any stump, however large or small.

Consultancy

First For Trees Limited provides a full Consultancy service comprising the following:

Roadside Tree Inspections
Individual Tree Surveys and Reports
Woodland and Forestry Management
Tree Planting

Tree Surgery

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For your peace of mind, all tree surgery and tree care work is fully insured for up to 5 million pounds and is carried out by fully trained and qualified personnel.

Tree felling, tree cutting and tree removal

We can fell and remove trees with no damage to the surrounding area. For all those trees in tricky areas such as hanging over a road or in-between two houses we can safely remove them with little disturbance. All arisings can be removed off site for recycling.

Crown reductions

The size of a tree can be reduced while maintaining the shape of a natural shape of a tree. All pruning is carried out the highest standard incorporating Alex Shigos CODIT theory. Trees that are out of shape can be pruned into a better shape, limbs can be reduced away from the side of a house or off a road for example. Crown reductions can be done for amenity reasons or safety reasons to prevent a tree from failing or wind throw.

Crown Thinning

Crown thinning is where some of the branches from within the crown are removed. This can be to allow more light into a shady back garden or to remove untidy branches. It can also be used to reduce the sale area of a tree to reduce the chances of it failing.

Crown Raising

This is when the lower limbs of a tree are removed. This could be for aesthetic reasons or to allow more light into an area or possibly because you want to be able to get under the tree with a lawnmower.

Pollarding

Pollarding is a fairly old technique originating from timber production. This should be avoided bus sometimes is the only possibility; for example on previously pollarded trees or where large amounts of the tree have to be removed and there is no other option. This is common on willow trees near streams and rivers.

Dead Wooding

This is where the dead wood from a tree is removed. This is generally done for safty reasons but is also done for amenity purposes. On some old trees where it is safe to do so the dead wood should be left due to its habitat value.

Hedge and Conifer Reductions

This involves reducing the height of a hedge by a specific measurement or percentage. Large conifers can be topped where a hedge has been allowed to grow too high.

Hedge Cutting

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Hedge Reductions

Hedges that are too tall or too big can be reduced in size to suit any requirements. This may be to allow more light into a kitchen window or simply to improve a view.

Hedge Cutting and Trimming

We carry out all hedge cutting and hedge trimming operations from small garden hedges to large farmland-style hedges with a flail. Hedge cutting is an annual operation and ought to be carried out after August to prevent disturbances to birds nesting. Cutting hedges later in the year also means you will only need your hedges cut once a year.

Stump removal

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Stump removal reduces the risk of any diseases and pathogens being retained in the area that might have been living on the tree and prevents diseases occupying the stump after the tree has been removed, for instance Honey Fungus. Tree stump removal has the advantage of removing an unsightly tree stump or a stump which is getting in the way. Stump grinding also guarantees the stump will not re shoot.

Our stump grinder the "Carlton SP 7015 TRX" pictured above has a very powerful 60hp engine enabling this machine to grind out many stumps in a short amount of time with ease. This stump grinder has a width of 35 inches so access is not usually a problem. This stump removal machine runs on tracks allowing it to reach the most awkward stumps over rough terrain. As this machine runs on tracks it has a low ground pressure reducing impact on sensitive areas. Turning is not a problem as far as making a mess in concerned as we simply drive it onto a board to change direction. We normaly grind stumps out to a depth of 12 inches but a depth of 15 inches can be reached whilst a height of 24 inches can be met.

Our stump grinder is easily transported on a trailer allowing us to service the whole of the Midlands.

When the stump has been ground out the area can ether be landscaped to fit in to its surrounding area, i.e. turfed over or paved,or simply left as it is, out of harms way. First For Trees Limited can carry out landscaping in these situations.

The stumps can either be ground out or dug out depending on each situation. Access is never a problem and any stump can be removed. First For Trees Limited uses high quality stump grinder equipment, capable of efficiently dealing with any stump, however large or small.

Consultancy

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Roadside Tree Inspections

It is very important for landowners and tree owners to be aware of there responsibility for their trees. A tree owner is responsible for ensuring the safety of their trees. If there was an accident caused by one of your trees you could be held responsible if you have not had them inspected by a competent person. One of our services is to inspect landowners trees and provide a report on there safety. The safety report provides information for any works to be carried out, the urgency of these works, when the trees should be inspected next.

Individual Tree Surveys and Reports

Another service is to provide reports on individual trees. This can be for the safety of a tree near to your house or one to be submitted to the local authority to have works done to a tree with a Tree Preservation Order (TPO) on it for example.

Woodland and Forestry Management:

First For Trees Limited also provides management services for forestry and woodland management. These services include:

felling licences applications
thinning control
planting advice
infrastructure
timber marketing
felling and extraction
vermin control
clearance
fencing

Tree Planting

Tree planting is something that if it is not done properly it will not work and can cost the planter hugely. We can provide planting advice, planting plans and site surveys, soil testing, etc.

Planting

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All planting is carried out to the highest standard using proven techniques. We carry out and forestrywoodland planting, hedgerow planting and amenity planting. We also provide first quaility fencing and tree guarding.

Quality

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All work is carried out to a minimum of BS3998 and is performed by fully trained and certified personnel.

All work is fully insured for up to £5 million.

Recycling

All arisings produced as a result from our work is all recycled.

Timber:

Any timber we take off site is made into firewood of all sizes sutiable for use in open fires and log burners.

Chippings:

All the chips we take off site are compested in a redundent silage clamp and is used as a mulch on gardens which helps supress weeds and retain moisture. We also use our chips as an organic mulch on the hedgerows we plant.