Pruning, Removal & Firewood

In September 2023 I was called to a lifestyle block outside Lincoln to find out why the septic system had stopped. The answer was a crushed distribution pipe and a disposal field driven over by a tracked chipper. The owner had hired two men with a ute to take down eight macrocarpa along the shelterbelt

Every winter the line-clearance crew I climb with takes out a few dozen trees along the rural roads west of Hornby where old shelterbelts have grown into the 11 kV lines. The stumps stay, and about a third of the time I get a call six months later asking why a dead poplar has fifty

My aunt has had a house at Hannahs Bay on the Rotorua lakefront since 1978, and for most of that time the coast redwood in the front corner was the thing everyone photographed. Planted in the late 1950s, it was 32 metres tall by 2022 and over a metre through at the base. It stood

In August 2023 a nor’wester took a limb off my macrocarpa, the 25-metre one on the boundary of my Sydenham place. It was about 350 mm through at the break and 9 metres long, and it came down across the back lawn without touching the fence, which I still count as luck. The arborist who

My sister bought a 1950s brick house in Hamilton East in 2019, on a street off Grey Street where the section backs onto the river terrace. The selling point was a mature English oak, maybe 18 metres, at the back. The catch was that a previous owner had topped it in about 2014: every main