When Trees Loose the Battle with Subsidence
Unfortunately, trees sometimes lose the battle against the pressures of urban development and the wear of time. This was the case with a mature Cedar tree in Northamptonshire that we were contracted to remove by an insurance company due to subsidence issues affecting nearby properties.
With limited access to the site, the removal required a careful and skilled approach. We dismantled the tree using a combination of aerial rope access and a 20m tracked cherry picker. Advanced rigging techniques were used throughout to ensure the job was carried out safely and efficiently.
To protect the surrounding lawn, we laid track mats along all access routes, minimising ground disturbance. For improved productivity and site efficiency, we utilised our Bandit chipper and Bobcat E27 digger.
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Whenever I sit under an old tree, I always wonder what it might have witnessed throughout its history.
Whether it be great historic events, the births and deaths of remarkable people, steam traction engines trundling past to tend the land before giving way to diesel tractors, the outbreak of war, or Spitfires flying overhead off to fight, never to return.
Who may have sat under it? Who planted it, and why?
As my daughter gets older, I’ve tried to combine history and dendrology during our walks in the woods, showing her felled timber and how the increments in the annual rings reveal the tree’s past. In woodland, you can spot signs of forestry thinning events and even the great storm of 1987.
So when this lump of cedar landed in the yard, part of a tree we were contracted to fell, I saw a good opportunity for a history lesson. Armed with pins and a marker pen, I set out to map some key events in the tree’s life before, unfortunately, urban progress brought about its end.
I’m not a historian, just a guy with a chainsaw and Google, so hopefully, I’ve got these dates right
