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Formative Pruning is an Arboricultural practice that involves selective removal of parts of a tree, such as roots, buds, limbs and branches following best arboricultural practice.
Reasons to Formative Prune trees, may include removing deadwood and major deadwood, shaping to control or direct growth, maintaining or improving health, reducing risk of branch or limb failure, preparing nursery specimens for transplanting, and both harvesting and increasing the yield or quality of fruits and blooms. The practice of Formative Pruning entails selected removal of dead, diseased, damaged, non-productive, structurally unsound, or otherwise unwanted tissue from landscape and crop trees. Specialised pruning techniques may be applied to particular plants, such as roses, grapevines and fruit trees.
Our Tree Focus Ltd Arborist team use various specialised arborist tools designed for Formative Pruning, such as specific Arborist secateurs, handsaws, hand pruners, loppers, or chainsaws.
In general, the smaller the branch that is removed, the easier it is for a woody tree or plant to compartmentalise or heal the wound limiting the potential for pathogen intrusion and decay to enter the tree and work it's way through the tree. It is thereby preferable to make any necessary structural formative pruning cuts to young trees, whenever possible, rather than removing large, poorly located branches from large, mature trees.
Please ask our friendly, helpful Motueka based Arborists at Tree Focus Ltd for more information about the benefits of Formative Pruning.
Tree removal of unwanted trees that have become problematic, out grown their location, become dangerous or tree roots lifting your driveway, building foundations or tree removals required to make way for new property development or proposed construction.
Depending on the situation of the tree removal, our Tree Focus Arborist team can achieve the tree removal a variety of ways by carefully dismantling the tree, piece by piece or felling the tree or utilising a hi-ab crane where required for larger trees.
As trees are extremely important to help maintain our environment, air quality and can potentially enhance property values, if we can possibly save a tree by pruning the tree in a suitable manner or by applying a tree brace we will advise accordingly. Please contact our Tree Focus Ltd Arborist team who will advise accordingly working with your requirements.
Our Tree Focus Ltd Arborist team use state of the art, very quiet battery powered hedge trimming equipment, that our clients regularly comment about the lack of trimmer noise.
Tree Focus have the skill to trim hedges of any description, from small to large hedges. Even if the hedge has become unkempt and requires restorative trimming to return the hedge to the precise hedge shape to complement your garden, lawns and property perfectly.
It is always advisable not to let your hedge become too untidy as the newer hedge shoots may become woody and thick, which may render the next hedge trimming more time consuming and possibly loose the optimum hedge shape. Regular hedge trimming and hedge cutting can save money in the long run and maintain the shape.
We can mulch the hedge trimmings into the back of the truck and either tip or shoot the mulch on site to re-purpose around your garden, or dispose the mulch off site.
Contact our friendly Tree Focus Arborists for your Albany and North Shore and Auckland hedge trimming requirements.
When space is sufficient, and if the working zone is ample, tree felling maybe the most efficient, safest and suitable option, especially if the tree is in declining health or dead or the tree may have become unsafe to climb for a variety of reasons.
Our Tree Focus Ltd North Shore, Auckland Arborist team are very skilled at Tree Felling and utilise the right equipment, and rest assured the tree will be felled the correct and safest way possible whilst taking care of the surrounding work area, including taking into account any essential aerial service wires, fibre cables and essential service pipes that maybe very shallowly located just below the ground surface.
Utilising our very modern equipment and state of the art, powerful New Zealand made Hansa C60RX, remote controlled tracked chipper with 10" x 18" wide in-feed, our Tree Focus Ltd Arborist team can mulch chippable foliage, branches, brush and tip, spray or shoot the mulch within your property or into the back of the truck and dispose of the mulch off site to suit requirements even on a site inaccessible for most chippers.
Our Hansa chipper is on rubber tracks, enabling us to get up close to the branch pile or use the hydraulic winch to pull large branches, limbs or the tree to the chipper, saving a lot of unnecessary hauling creating minimal impact on the surface,
We highly recommend recycling mulch within your property, as mulch is very beneficial to assist restoring the soil quality, encouraging worms back into the soil and to help keep the ground moist, especially over the usually very dry summer time.
Chat to our Albany, North Shore, Tree Focus arborist team about Tracked Chipping and Mulching your unwanted branches or brush.
Our Tree Focus Ltd North Shore Arborist team are extremely passionate about giving back to the environment by providing tree planting services. From advising and sourcing suitable trees for a specific location, organic soil and planting materials and digging a sufficient sized hole and planting at the correct depth and taking into account the surrounding ground conditions, water flow, buildings and other trees.
The best tree planting and tree transplanting season is, ideally from May through to September, whilst the ground is suitably moist. Or out of season, if you are willing to follow our Arborists advise on tree care and frequent watering.
Once planting or transplanting is complete our Arborists will advise of best care to ensure ongoing success, through to the future care of the trees by our Arborist team, including trimming, pruning and formative pruning to maintain form and tree health.
If your tree has outgrown its location or you would prefer the tree relocated elsewhere within your property and tree is still of easily re-relocatable size, we provide professional Arborist tree transplanting services.
The Tree Focus team also very enthusiastically enjoy being part of multiple community tree planting events every year and encourage others to do so, as trees are extremely important to our environment and air quality.
In particular scenarios the impressive lifting ability and expansive reach of a hi-ab crane is the most cost effective, efficient and safest way of pruning or removing a large tree, extremely large tree or large palm tree, especially when access is tight or awkward or if power lines, phone lines, service lines, obstacles, other large trees or buildings are within the work area.
Our Tree Focus Ltd arborist team have the expertise and years of experience to organise the most technical hi-ab Crane job to run like clockwork from inception to completion, whilst leaving the site clean, tidy and very importantly, safe upon completion.
Have a chat to our personable Motueka, Tasman based Tree Focus Ltd Auckland Arborists who very happily advise and assist.
During exceptionally stormy, very erratic, rough, squally weather, storm force winds, thunder, lightening storms, torrential rain, hail and severe weather systems can potentially create significant storm damage to your trees, necessitating emergency tree pruning or remedial tree pruning or emergency tree removal if your storm damaged tree is beyond restorative pruning or the tree has fallen.
During exceptionally high winds and heavy rain, trees can become potentially hazardous failing and damaging property, cars or injuring people or the tree could become partially uprooted exposing the root ball. Sometimes trees just have sudden limb or branch failures, that maybe due to the significant weight of a branch or limb, requiring emergency or remedial tree work to rectify the damage.
In these circumstances don't hesitate to contact our experienced, helpful Albany, North Shore based Tree Focus Ltd Arborist team to carry out restorative pruning to your storm damaged tree to help ensure your storm damaged tree safe again or clearing of your storm damaged tree or large branch or limb. With our Hansa remote controlled tracked chipper we can get close to the tree to mulch the debris.
Or if you would like to reduce the chance of failure to a branch, limb, stem or the complete tree in significant weather events, have a chat our friendly, knowledgeable Tree Focus Auckland arborists for suitable solutions about how to avoid your tree becoming a storm damaged tree.
Pruning trees or palm trees when in close proximity to power lines, telephone lines and service lines, can be dangerous work, especially if you are not correctly skilled and do not have the knowledge and correct equipment to prune the tree safely when close to power wires, telephone wires, delicate fibre wires and service wires.
Why even contemplate pruning the tree from the power lines or telephone lines yourself and potentially risking seriously injuring yourself, others or damaging surrounding property or unnecessarily damaging the tree or damaging the service wires, particularly in the instance of unpredictable storm damaged trees, when Tree Focus Ltd Arborists are formerly trained to prune around power lines and phone wires and we have the correct insulated tools, equipment and importantly, knowledge to complete the job efficiently and safely without any disruption to your essential services, enabling you to relax knowing the job has been done safely and correctly by our efficient Tree Focus Ltd Arborist team.
In certain circumstances we arrange for service line disconnection by qualified professional, approved Linesmen, Fibre Linesman and if required we organise for the service lines to be dropped for everyone's safety and efficiently reconnected afterwards.
Often Tree Dismantling maybe the most efficient, safest and suitable way for our Tree Focus Ltd Arborist team to remove your tree very carefully.
Tree dismantling is achieved by our Arborists removing individual branches, limbs or smaller pieces of the trunk or stem to eliminate damage to the delicate work zone or buildings below, especially in situations where a tree has become impacted between buildings in a very confined location, over buildings or if other trees are in the immediate work area.
Our Arborists will often utiliise a secondary rope to carefully rig and lower tree pieces down in a very controlled, safe and methodical manner.
The Tree Focus Arborist team have the expertise and experience to dismantle your trees without damaging buildings and the general surroundings, utilsing specialsed rigging techniques where required.
Contact the Tree Focus Ltd Albany, North Shore arborist team to find out more about our Tree Dismantling services.