NERANG GILSTON TREE LOPPING

We are your tree care experts, providing experienced and affordable tree lopping in Nerang Gilston and surrounding Gold Coast areas for over 10 years. Our teams of professional arborists are standing by ready to assist with your tree maintenance requirements. We guarantee that every tree is given the attention and care it needs.

Providing expert advice and a first-class service is just the beginning. We are committed to exceeding our customers expectations by offering attention to detail in every facet of tree care - all at competitive rates.

We offer a comprehensive range of arborist services and tree care from the top to the stump, including tree pruning, tree shaping, tree removal, mulching and block clearing.

Tree Lopping Vs Tree Pruning

Are you confused about the difference between tree lopping and tree pruning? Don't the two terms mean basically the same thing - removing the branches from a tree? No, the two methods of tree servicing are completely different and result in contrasting long term outcomes for both the property owner and the tree; negative in relation to the incorrect practice of tree lopping, and positive in relation to the accepted technique of tree pruning.

Tree lopping is the haphazard removal of branches without taking proper care or attention to the tree's structure, appearance, health or long term well-being. Tree Lopping is a quick fix for a tree's excessive size problem. Apart from the short term goal of storm-damaged tree repair, tree lopping should never be used as a long term solution to any tree difficulty.

National Tree associations advise against tree lopping due to a range of issues including:

• Remaining branches can be seriously scalded or sunburned
• Dangerous for workers to perform
• Spoils the natural shape and appearance of the tree
• Not cost effective, as regrowth will soon follow
• Major increase in maintenace costs
• Diminished tree health or death due to reduced food production
• Removal cost should lopping result in the death of the tree
• Does not comply with Australian Standards exposing legal issues
• Reduces the strength and stability of new branch growth
• Reduced property value due to disfigured appearance
• Places considerable stress on the tree
• Increase in the risk of storm damage
• Wounds increase the risk of decay, pest infestation and disease

Tree pruning is one of the most important procedures for maintaining a tree in an attractive, healthy and safe condition. Correct tree pruning is both an investment in the overall look and safety of your property, and in the long term health of your trees.

Should a tree's size be presenting safety issues, tree removal may be the best option with the tree replaced with a more suitable species.

Reasons For Tree Pruning

Our experienced teams of arborists have successfully completed foliage reductions in all sized and species of trees throughout the Gold Coast. Certified tree pruning techniques prevent unnecessary stress on trees, while ensuring customers enjoy the beauty of healthy, well maintained landscapes.

Using correct pruning procedures will result in a compact, natural and neat shape that suits the environment and location. The main reasons for pruning trees include:

• Improve canopy light penetration
• Stimulate healthy growth
• Enhance overall health
• Reduce risks of damage or injury
• Improving fruit production
• Direct growth away from structures
• Reduce wind resistence
• Maintain desired size, form and shape
• Maintain structural integrity
• Power line, road and path clearance
• Improve canopy air flow
• Improving aethetic appeal
• Remove dead or diseased limbs
• Reduce leaf litter in gutters
• Reduce limb and branch failure

Trees adversely affected by age, storm damage, pests or disease can be a safety risk to the people and properties around them. The best way to avoid accidents is to be proactive. Deal with the problem immediately, with the help of an experienced and certified arborist who has a range of pruning techniques available to tackle all types of tree issues.

Types of Tree Pruning

Crown Reduction - The reduction in length of crown or single branches which eliminates interference with structures and objects, improves the shapes and form of the tree, and compensates for structural weaknesses. This practice is not suitable for Eucalypts.

Deadwood Removal - Removing dead branches assists with a tree's natural growth, aethetic beauty, and general safety in surrounding areas.

Selective Tree Pruning - Removing branches that are causing a specific problem such as being to close to buildings, hanging over pools or getting close to power lines - all without comprising the tree's structural integrity.

Restorative Pruning - Or Remedial pruning is the removal of defects in older trees after previous damage due to lack of care, poor pruning techniques and storms.

Crown Thinning - The removal of live branches from the outer portion of the canopy to reduce wind resistence, density and subsequent storm damage.

Crown Raising - The pruning of lower branches increases the clearance from the ground, which increases the amount of light beneath the crown, improves views, removes hazardous lower branches, and reduces leaf litter.

Crown Cleaning - Pruning and cleaning of a tree's crown removing weak, crowded, dying, diseased and dead branches, which maintains plant safety and health.

Formative Pruning - The structural pruning of young trees to ensure they grow in natural form typical of the species, with strong frameworks.

Vista Pruning - Appropriate removal of branches to enhance a specific view of the city, mountains, beach etc.

If not carried out correctly and using appropriate techniques, tree Pruning has the potential to serious damage a tree and create long term health problems.

The Timing of Tree Pruning

On the Gold Coast, late winter is an ideal time of the year to be pruning, just before the new growth starts to emerge in spring. Deciduous and flowering trees may have different requirements depending on the species.

Deciduous Trees - Deciduous trees are best pruned in winter when they are dormant. Also, there are less pest activity during the colder months, which minimises the risk of pest infestation in freshly cut branch wounds.

Flowering Trees - Flowering trees should be pruned mid-autumn before blooming in spring.

Dangerous Trees - It's always the right time of the year to prune a tree with dangerous branches, as they tend not to fix themselves, resulting in dead, broken or diseased branches falling sooner or later.

Storm Season - Start inspecting you trees in October, just before the storm season starts in November. If a tree is suffering from weak, broken or diseased limbs, there's every chance the limbs will fall due to strong wind gusts during a storm.

Palm trees Palms do not follow any particular pruning schedule. Most palms are self-cleaning, and naturally shed fronds, flower pods and fruit. If your property is blessed with beautiful Canary Island Date Palms, or cursed with dreaded Cocos Palms, regular pruning will be required, which can be undertaken anytime of the year.

Consider pruning when the following issues are noticed on your tree:

• Broken and damaged branches
• Dead & diseased branches
• Branches near structures or over power lines
• Tree has too much growth
• Tree is too dense & requires thinning
• Fungal infections, cracks or rot in the limbs
• Crossing branches
• Insect or pest infestations
• Cracks in the trunk

All tree pruning and tree lopping on the Gold Coast should be undertaken in accordance with Pruning Amenity Trees AS:4373 standard, which increases the tree's probability of full recovery from the pruning, and helps maintain healthy growth.