Tree Surgeon Services for Kettering & Northamptonshire.

Specialist Tree Surgery, Tree Clearance, Tree Management and Vegetation Management

With many years experience Commercial Tree Contracting for both forestry and arboriculture, we are highly experienced and equipped to efficiently complete large tree and vegetation management & clearance projects meeting the needs of commercial clients.

Rose Tree Care only use modern equipment to insure your job is carried out quickly and safely. We cause little disturbance to any work site enabling us to meet tight time schedules.
All our machinery is owned by us: excavators, a range of large chippers, and we carry out all aspects of tree work in house without the need to subcontract.

We carry out a range or services from individual Tree Removal to whole site, large scale, Tree and Vegetation Clearance.

Rose Tree Care regularly & successfully complete large projects for Civil Construction companies, Government Agencies, Local Authorities, Land Owners and Facilities Management companies.

From large tree removal, to tree clearance we own operate machinery suited to and are experienced in large and complex tree and vegetation projects.

We operate a fleet of Lorries to remove bulk waste such as Woodchip and timber.

Our excavators can fell and process trees for full mechanical tree removal.

We can also bulk process tree waste with our large crane fed woodchippers for whole site tree clearance or large individual trees.

Tree inspection and reporting
Tree pruning and removal
Tree planting for landscaping and woodland establishment
Tree safety work for schools, Our staff are all DBS enhanced checked
Vegetation management and removal for new developments
Site clearance for construction and vegetation management
PTS qualified railway de-vegetation
Ecology works, mechanised de-vegetation
Roadside tree clearance and vegetation management
Facilities management
Petrol Forecourts – UKPIA-SPA Petrol Retail Contractors Safety Passport Qualified
Ivy removal from buildings and structures

We hold £10 million employers liability insurance
£5 million public liability insurance
£1 million indemnity insurance
CSCS certified plant operators
CPCS certified machine operators
Full H&S documentation
CIS + VAT registered
Small highly capable team for a fast efficient bespoke service

Reducing Oak tree from a crane with basket in Northampton

Rose Tree Care are Chas Accredited, Safe Contractor Approved and SMAS Worksafe Accredited. We operate a full Health and Safety System.
Our Staff carry CSCS cards for works on Development sites and we are fully equipped to carry out large and complex projects.

We have a full suite of Risk assessments, method statements, Health and safety and environmental policy statements and other task and other industry specific policies to accompany any job all of which we are only to happy to present to any potential client.

We run large lorries & chippers for an efficient and safe service. We can remove material from site in large quantities easily and safely.

Lorries fitted with cranes and diggers fitted with loading attachments, mean we can handle bulky material, such as logs and branches, quickly minimising time and cost.

Rose Tree Care can provide great references from many different industries such as Rail Contractors, Civil Engineering companies and Industrial Parks.

Whilst many tree companies offer Commercial tree services very few can match the equipment, experience and efficiency that Rose Tree Care can offer.

Pre-Development Site Clearance

We have machinery at our disposal capable of removing and chipping large diameter trees and vegetation for site & land clearance. This includes whole tree chippers and 360′ Excavators, with timber grabs, for moving large quantities of cut produce efficiently. As well as smaller compact machines such as road tow and tracked chippers.

All our machinery is operated by in house skilled and qualified staff.

Our staff also carry CSCS (Construction skills certification scheme) cards for working on construction sites and all our staff have the correct NPTC (national proficiency test council) qualification for any task they are carrying out.

Vegetation Flailing / Mulching

Rose Tree Care have our own range of vegetation flails suitable for a range of projects. We have small excavator mounted flails, and mulchers, ideal for site investigation works and the removal of brambles on banks or contaminated sites.
Our Flail, mounted on our 3 tonne excavator, is easily moved for short duration and tight access jobs.

Some applications include,

Ecological destructive surveys
Removal of vegetation around obstacles such as pilings
River bank mowing
Hedge flailing
Track side de-veg
Vegetation removal on steep banks
Vegetation removal on contaminated ground

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Land Clearance, Hedgerow removal

We can quickly and effortlessly remove vegetation, such as Hedgerows, and other thorny and difficult to deal with vegetation. We can tailor methods to your particular site requirements. Such sites we have experience in dealing with includes those with ecological constraints, difficult terrain and wet sites with poor ground conditions.

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Road Side Tree & Vegetation Clearance

We have in house operatives, qualified on the Street Works Register, to install and maintain traffic lights and traffic management.

Combined with machinery capable of processing roadside trees quickly such as excavators with brash grapples and large chippers. We can deal with private and commercial landowners roadside tree and vegetation management problems, quickly, safely and efficiently, minimising inconvenience to road users.

The photo opposite is the Rose Tree team operating a one lane traffic light controlled road closure, whilst using a 360 digger, with selector grab, to prepare brash for a 15inch wood chipper. Clearing trees for a new development and road widening on the A428 near rugby.

Visit our Roadside Works Page

Roadside Tree Safety Works

We can undertake roadside safety works, removing roadside trees and pruning works. Utilising Mewps/Cherry Pickers and organising road or lane closures.

Our staff are qualified under IPAF for using Cherry Pickers as well as traditional rope and harness techniques. Works we have under took include thinning woodland roadside trees for visual improvements and woodland thinning. Canopy raising for clearance and pruning of trees.

We also use Mewps for other tree works including removal of vegetation from structures, dismantling un climbable trees and removing vegetation & trees from security lights and CCTV

Read our Roadside Tree Surgery Case Study

Pre-Development Site Clearance & Ecological Mitigation

We can tailor site clearances for ecologically sensitive sites. We have experience with working with stringent site constraints such as Great Crested newts, Door Mice, Bats, protected and nesting Birds. We regularly work with ecologists to minimise damage to flora and fauna.

The photo opposite is us working with a tight time schedule to remove several hundred meters of hedgerow, on a site inhabited by Great crested newts. To minimise disturbance to newts dormant in the hedgerow bottom, we cut the hedge at 45cm high and carefully removed the brash with a 360′ digger fitted with selector grab and stacked it for processing away from the hedge line. This method aloud for minimal disturbance by eliminating the need for manual dragging of the cut brash and minimising ground disturbance in the hedge and ditch.

Ecological mitigation in Kettering, Northamptonshire

Using Cranes for Tree Work & Dismantling Trees in Inaccessible Places

We have great experience in using cranes in tree work. Often used for removal of trees which are very large, with poor access, or too dangerous for rigging systems. We can use cranes for dismantling trees safely as well as for accessing trees which are not suitable for rope and harness techniques.

The tree below needed removing as part of Network Rail infrastructure upgrades in Aylesbury. The rail bridge behind was being replaced and the tree was preventing works.

The tree was situated with a steep rail embankment behind and a river in front with a busy road in front of that. The tree was completely inaccessible to machinery and a dangerous scrabble for workers with no drop zone for branches. Due to the busy road this job had to be done at night. We arranged for the road to closed and utilised a 35 tonne crane which lifted and lowered branches cut by a tree climber in the tree across the river and safely onto the road for processing.

Due to strict safety rules on the railway (and rules for crane use combined with the proximity of branches being lifted by the crane from a climber aloft in the tree) this this job took careful planning. A rigorous method statement and risk assessment along with lift plan was compiled in house by company director James Rose who also had the task of being the man in the tree!