All our services are offered to the highest of standards. An ISO 9001 quality control based system within the company makes sure every member of staff knows what is required with each contract, to allow them to achieve the highest standards at all times. All staff members are kept up to date with industry standards and regulations. This is achieved by in house training and the attendance of professional training courses to become qualified to a national standard. NPTC certificates of our all our employees are available on request.

 

  

ArB has a full Health & Safety / Environmental Policy which can be viewed upon a clients request. Risk assessments and method statements are undertaken prior to commencing any work to ensure the safety of our employees and members of the public. The Company is a member of Construction Line and has a

  
         

Tree Surgery

Our fully trained and certificated staff under take all aspects of tree care throughout the Midlands and North Wales. All work is undertaken to B.S. 3998. Operations offered include tree felling, crown reduction/thinning, pruning, bracing, and tree planting. We also undertake hedge trimming and reductions. 

Felling & Dismantling
Sometimes it is necessary to fell and remove a tree as it has become unsafe wether by fungal infection, storm damage, etc, or planning issues stipulate its removal. In such instances ArB Tree Care have a vast amount of experience. All our climbing staff are qualified to undertake rigging operations and along with our specialist equipment no tree is therefore too large for us to undertake.  Over the years we have become specialists in large tree dismantling and removal.

Pruning
Trees have natural biological defense systems which help defend against disease and decay by isolating affected areas; this is known as “compartmentalization”.

Incorrect tree surgery can compromise the trees ability to defend itself against decay.
ArB Tree care staff are trained to perform natural target pruning to ensure that cells under the bark (which are essential for healing) are left intact to aid the trees recovery from any pruning operations undertaken.
Pruning a tree may occur in a variety of forms:

  1. Deadwooding/Crown cleaning: This is the removal of deadwood, damaged, diseased or rubbing branches in the crown of a tree. This is useful for trees in urban settings particularly, as it reduces the risk of falling debris.

  2. Crown Thinning: This is the removal of branches evenly throughout the crown. Normally no more than 30% of material should be removed (including deadwood). This operation allows light to penetrate the canopy, reduces weight on weaker branches and reduces wind resistance whilst maintaining overall height and profile of the tree.

  3. Crown Raising/Crown Lifting: This is the removal of the lowest or low overhanging branches. It is often undertaken to allow vehicle or pedestrian access close to a tree, but it may also be used to stop children climbing a tree close to a potential hazard such as powerlines.

  4. Crown Reducing: This is the reduction in length of branches throughout the crown. It is often used to reduce the weight of weak branches and to stop branches interfering with adjacent buildings or structures. It will also reduce wind stress and may enable large mature trees to be retained in a confined area. Crown reductions are a difficult procedure and they can often spoil a tree if it is not carried out by an experienced professional. All our staff are fully trained to undertake this operation. They will make sure that all reductions are undertaken in such a way that a flowing branch line is preserved. Where branches are reduced to a union or fork then the remaining stem must be at least a third in diameter of the branch removed. A tree should never have a reduction of more than 30% in one operation (unless re-pollarding is being undertaken.).
 

CHAS approved Health & Safety Policy. As such the Company conforms to all Loler and Puwer regulations and maintains stringent records of equipment/machinery inspections.

ArB Tree Care carries an Employees & Public Liability Insurance Policy of £10,000,000. All of the services below are covered by this policy.

► Tree Surgery
► Tree Management/Consultancy
► Tree Planting
► Forestry Contracting
► Fencing
► Vegetation Management/Utility Arboriculture

 

Pollarding and Coppicing
These techniques are used to produce timber and are the earliest known forms of woodland management. Pollarding is where all the branches arising from the trunk are removed. This avoided any re-growth being grazed by cattle or deer etc. Coppicing is the felling of a tree so that only a small stump is left close to the ground. Mature naturally shaped trees may not respond well to either of these practices. However, this type of management must continue once started.

 

Stump grinding
Sometimes it is necessary to remove a tree stump after it has been felled. ArB Tree Care can provide an efficient stump removal service by using its R28T Predator grinding machine. This versatile machine has veriable width tracks so it can fit through most side gates or track itself up grass and mud hills to undertake grinding operations where most other machines would struggle to get. When we undertake the grinding operations we will remove all the debris and reinstate the ground to the customers requests. NOT all company’s offering grinding services do this, so always ask this question when obtaining quotes.

  



 

 

 
         

Tree Planting

Since starting as a sole trader 1993 and then becoming limited in 2002 the company has planted over 750,000 trees! A complete service is offered from the inspection of schemes to the maintenance of establishing trees. In some cases grants for the planting of the trees have been sourced for the client to help cover costs. Schemes undertaken have ranged from individual specimens for avenues & arboretum to large woodland/roadside plantings.

 

 

  

Vegetation Management

ArB Tree care Ltd can also offer various vegetation management services. We have fully trained staff to undertake a wide array of contracts that range from rhododendron clearance and Japanese knotweed control to weed control around newly planted trees. We have gained a large amount of industry experience over the years performing operations alongside watercourses, railway lines, highways, heath land restoration projects, as well as on construction sites where complete vegetation removal is required.

  

 
         

Fencing

ArB can undertake a variety of fencing forms for your requirements, wether this is traditional post and rail, rabbit or stock proof fencing. Over the last few years we have also developed a partnership with a local ecology company in undertaking specialist fencing requirements. This has given the company extensive experience in undertaking specialist wildlife fencing that is required for Newts or excluding badgers.

 

 

  

Forestry Contracting

Through our network of specialist subcontractors and in house staff we can offer all aspects of forestry contracting services from restocking woodlands to timber harvesting. ArB Tree Care Director Anthony Bethell has been working within the forestry industry since 1985.

  

 
         

ARB Plant Hire/Servicing/Sales

ArB Tree Care Ltd working in partnership with Flintshire based Treeworks Ltd can now offer a wide range of specialist Arboricultural equipment for hire with or without operators.

  1. Hire:
    Based within our depot we have a Landrover defender based MEWP, a tracked chipper and tracked stump grinder. With full access to machinery based within Treework's Ltd depot we can also offer larger tracked chippers (up to 8" chip capacity) and the larger R50 tracked Predator stump grinder. For specialist ground clearance we can also offer the GreenMech Multi-Task 120 a self propelled SAFE-Trak 120hp power unit with mulching head.

  2. Servicing:
    Two of our staff have now been trained at GreenMech to undertake maintenance on GreenMech chippers. With full and immediate access to GreenMech's spare's department we can service your GreenMech chipper in next to no time to minimize your down time. In some instances it may also be possible to supply you with a replacement machine whilst the work is being carried out.

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  1. Sales:
    Through our dealership arrangement with Treeworks Ltd any of GreenMech's full range of machinery can be purchased via ourselves if you are based within Treeworks Ltd sales area (please see GreenMechs web site for dealer distribution area's).

GreenMech have won the Queens Award for Enterprise in both 2005 and 2009. This year see's the release of its pioneering 750kg braked Quad Chip Chipper. If you would like information and/or a demonstration of this highly effiecient chipper or any of the world leading Safe-Track chippers then please feel free to call us to arrange one.