We had a mature Mountain Ash to fall recently in Sherbrooke. We had a set of tree jacks to test, so we set them up and tipped it over. The tree was completely dead, and was standing up quite straight
International Society of Arboriculture Presentation
We’ll be presenting on Trivect Rigging at the ISA Sydney 2011 conference. Details about the event can be found on the International Society of Arboriculture website. The timetable for the Trivect presentation can be found in the climbers corner.
Tree Removal Emerald
Sherbrooke Tree Service removes tree’s of all sizes, and can have your tree simply dropped our completely removed using our chipper and excavator! You can keep the mulch, or have us take it away and dispose of it. Contact us
Large Tree Removal Presentation for Jim’s Trees and Stumps
Just got back from a fantastic morning with the guys at Jim’s Trees and Stumps. We presented some of our material on the topic of large tree removal and rigging techniques. We touched on a lot of our technical tree
Dead Gumtree Removal Avonsleigh
Removed several dead trees from a home in Avonsleigh that were over the top of the children’s cubby house, neighbours clothes line, fence, garden, gazebo and an incinerator. Nothing was damaged, and the job was done using our well adapted
Tree Removal Warburton
Contract climbing for a Yarra Ranges based tree company a few months ago, and this photo was taken as we took the top of the tree out and caught it on rope. This meant we could preserve the owners precious
Mount Dandenong Tree Removal
We service all of the Dandenong Ranges in the Shire of Yarra Ranges. Belgrave Kallista Kalorama Macclesfield Menzies Creek Monbulk Mount Dandenong Olinda Sassafras Seville Sherbrooke Silvan The Patch Some of our services include Tree Lopping Tree Trimming Tree Removal
Helicopter Tree Lopping
We had two interesting jobs on today – one at William Ricketts Sanctuary and another at Burnham Beeches. This brief post is about the job at Burnham Beeches where we used a helicopter to remove some storm damaged limbs from
Storm Damage Oak Tree in Dandenong Ranges
A large Oak tree in Mt Dandenong was damaged during a severe storm. One half of it landed on the owners property, the other half of the tree landed on the neighbours. Sherbrooke Tree Service was engaged to perform the
Cockatoo Dangerous Tree Removal
Had a job last week where a 70 feet tall dead tree had fallen into another tree over the top of a shed. I snapped a photo with my phone I descended onto it to work. After setting a large
Wood Chipping One Tree Hill
Our new Rayco mulcher has arrived and it got a test run at One Tree Hill on Mt Dandenong. We fell two tree’s then chipped the heads and branches. The 8″ chipper can be towed behind a standard four wheel
Fire Killed Tree Removal Bunyip State Forest
The four wheel drive tracks throughout Bunyip State Forest were affected by the Bunyip Ridge fire. A large number of hazard trees were assessed alongside the track and were marked for removal. In October/November 2009, Sherbrooke Tree Service was engaged
Red Roo Chipper Dandenong Ranges
We hired one of Red Roo’s 730X chippers for some work we were doing in the Alfred Nicolas Gardens which is part of the Dandenong Ranges. Jim Kerr from Red Roo kindly took some video of the chipper doing what
Vegetation Management Mt Bogong
Some quick snaps of the vegetation management work we are doing on Mount Bogong. All of the tree assessments indicated that there was a significant threat to power transmission and distribution services. We have been engaged to remove trees that
Tree Lopping in Mt Dandenong
We were back on Mt Dandenong today. Tree lopping for something different. A few photos of PNF’s 18M travel tower. Ace Tree had their chipper out.
Tree Removal William Ricketts
A large Eucalyptus regnans out the front of William Ricketts sanctuary needed to be removed. William Ricketts Sanctuary is located in Melbourne’s south-east in the Dandenong ranges, and is managed by Parks Victoria. Graeme accesses the tree and rigs a
Opposing Pendulums
OPPOSING PENDULUMS When the opposing pendulums system was developed, there was no literature or evidence that such a system had been developed ever before. Graeme wrote a paper on the successes of the system and submitted it to the Journal
Removing Mountain Ash Mount Dandenong
Similar to Grants Picnic Ground removal, Graeme hangs the tree upside down and then uses a crane from Campbell Cranes to lift the long limbs off. Ace Tree and Ace Tower were there on the day helping us out with
Climber Tree Felling
A number of tree’s were vandalised in the Otway Ranges in an area called “Triplet Falls”. Sherbrooke Tree Service was engaged to safely remove the semi-mature mountain ash from the affected area with minimal damage to the under story below.
Large Stump Rips From Ground
When removing two mature Mountain Ash (Eucalyptus regnans) from Tarabolga National Park, Graeme suspected that the defect would cause the stump to tear from the ground as the tree departed. A hazard many tree loppers and tree fallers need to