What we do and how we do it…

We provide tree management services for private schools, parish councils, charitable trusts, businesses, celebrities and property management and letting agencies on a regular basis, not to mention the core of our business model which is serving the domestic client, providing high-quality tree and hedge care to a variety of sizes of property.

Please browse the pages below to see how we may be able to help you and if you can’t find what you’re looking for or just need some experienced advice, just drop us a line at [email protected]

Chipping

The business operates 5 chippers ranging from 6″ to 9″ in capacity. We also own a tracked machine, designed to access restricted areas or difficult terrain.

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Dead wood removal

Dead wood removal is the removal of dead, diseased and dangerous wood from the crown (canopy) of a tree. This process is usually carried out to improve the safety of the tree in an urban situation.

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Pruning

Pruning is an operation that regulates and controls the growth, flowering and fruiting of a plant, shrub or tree. It determines the form of its growth and often starts in the first few years whilst at the nursery.

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Crown Lifting

Crown lifting is the process of removing the lower limbs of a tree forming the base of the crown to allow traffic, people or an object to pass underneath the tree.

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Crown Reduction

Crown Reduction is the overall reduction in the height and spread of a tree’s crown by pruning back limbs to a growing point.

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Crown Thinning

Crown thinning is the process of removing limbs and epicormic (sucker) growth throughout the crown to reduce the overall.

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Tree Removal / Felling

Felling is the process of cutting through a trees’s trunk at the base in order for it to fall in a particular predetermined direction.

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Hedge Management

We offer a full hedge cutting service for all types of hedge, coniferous and broadleaved.

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Pollarding

Pollarding is an ancient form of pruning, usually carried out nowadays as a means of managing a tree from an early age.

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Logs & Kindling

We process all of the suitable timber we take as part of the arboricultural and woodland work we carry out in to 20-25cm split logs for domestic fireplaces and wood burners. We also buy in locally sourced Ash timber from Ash Dieback removal sites to augment our supply. 

 

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Christmas Trees

We have been growing traditional Norway Spruce Christmas Trees here at Collins Farm for nearly 40 years. Click the tab below to learn more.

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Sectional Removal

Sectional Removal is the process of removing a tree’s trunk in sections after complete limb removal

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Stump Grinding

When a tree has been removed and the area is required for replanting or incorporation back in to a lawn, border or raised bed, we are able to quickly and efficiently.

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Wood Management

Woodland & field margin management can form a critical part of managing a farm or an estate and there is still government money available to help.

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