Commando Climbers Tree Specialists

ATTENTION! Lost female kitten found at our business premises. no collar, no chip, had a vet check she is healthy and happy other than malnourished.
Found at bridge farm Cossall, newtons lane.
was found in long grass and bramble at farm.
Responds well to humans so assumption is she had a previous home.
Please get in touch if you know her previous home so we can return her safely, otherwise she will continue to be looked after and will be adopted into the Commando family.

One of our annual trims from last month.

Laurel and conifer hedge trimmed up a few weeks ago ready for the sun ☀️ sunshine ☀️
We are looking forward a wonderful British Summer this year ⌚ it's been long due for many we can imagine 😁 🌺 🌲 🌴 ☀️🌞

If you remember a few months back we had a catastrophic failure of a large mature beech tree with what I believed to be a tawny owls nest 🦉
This is one of our regular customers property's and it was a pleasure to wander back into the woods and find what appeared to be last years baby tawny owl, still having some of its fluffy baby feathers on its tummy.
This made my day 😁🤗

I also saw a larger tawny owl fly off as I walked under the tree , I'm hoping the stump I left will provide them with a nice shelter still.

surgeon damage

Birch stump removed putting our new stein guards to work.

A transformation on this corner street job with this sycamore removal combined with a privet hedge reduction to 5 feet in height, trimming back the overhang on the sides of the pavement.

This large Beech tree had a limb failure due to rot cavity holding a tawney owls nest inside, the limb had fallen into another large Beech within the same wooded section.
only a couple of days later the other 60 ft of the tree snapped in the secondary storm due to a hidden cavity above the previous which was 3 times the size and had an old bees nest inside.
We set to work and tidied up the fallen tree and then climbed the other beech tree to remove the caught up limb failure.

We persuaded the customer to leave the damaged trunk to provide a nice habitat pile for animals and insects to thrive in.

We had a series of larger trees removals through October November, this beech was removed due to a large cavity in the centre of the stem with the remains of a large old unused beehive.
After a climbed inspection we chose to remove it due to a low amount of holding wood remaining and the high risks for incoming storms.
Unfortunately storm Henk did bring down one of these 3 great beech trees at this property.
The tree was also holding a large cavity this time from a tawney owls nest we will be returning to tidy up the other beech tree this January and I will be sure to post the nest.

Unfortunately I didn't get any completed shots of this lime tree, from a few months ago.
An expensive patio underneath The Pink crash mats were used to prevent damage dismantling in smaller pieces and lowering with ropes when needed.
The very large stump was removed a few days later taking Barry a whole day to remove!

Cherry tree reduction we did in October finished the evening with a lovely sunset. 🌞

Have a peek at one of our annual trimming jobs we did this September, satisfying nice edges 😁

Here is our newest member of the team a new 230.

Thankyou for the seamless hassle free sale.

Our last chipper Terry who is a well looked after old timberWolf 150 will be up for sale and will hopefully provide a great start for a new business like it did for us.

My apologies for the reduced presence being a small business owner who still works the tools when it gets busy I have to focus my time where I deem it most important and due to this I intentionally reduced my social media, as we finish this year I will look to keep you more informed on what we are doing again.

Stay warm and all the best wishes over this festive period James 😁

Thankyou! To everyone who has chosen and supported us here at Commando Climbers.

This post is earlier than I anticipated because I'm pleased to announce we are booked up until November and the phone is still ringing 😄
I would just like to make you aware that I am already looking into taking on more staff and setting up a second team to increase our workflow next year.

This is where it all started, saving up to get my first Van and the first tree we worked on as a business.

We are coming up to 3 years running as a business and each year our workflow has increased and more importantly you our wonderful customers have kept returning.

Thankyou
James Commando Climbers Tree Specialists

Large Sycamore removed at banks road infant school stump was left at a height to be used as a table by the kids.

Bordering two properties and having a bench built around the base of the tree, The rigging ropes and MS661 were dusted off to bring this sycamore down in a controlled safe manner.

Cedar removal

Crown Thin and Crown reduction for this Sycamore tree.

Had the pleasure last week of having one of my old Royal Marine Oppos, come work what was a wet windy graft of a week.
starting his tree surgery career in the best possible way.
Going Commando! 😉 🤣

This Large TPO Ash tree unfortunately has fallen prey to Hymenoscyphus fraxineus also known as Ash dieback.
After an in depth tree report was done we established that catching the disease early enough that preserving the tree by carrying out a full reduction was the best choice, permission was granted with 5 meters removed in height and 4 meters from the laterals.

Careful footing around the pet 🐢 on this prune 😁

conifer 50% height reduction .

Multi stem Plum tree pushing against fenceline removed.

Conifer removal entangled with clematis.

Crown lift and reducing in the sides to reshape this sycamore, small laurel and red robin removed and ground out.

Privet hedge tidied up 👌

This TPOd pine had a large limb failure during a storm, due to the heavy weight in pine cone season.

A 30% reduction was granted, with the main concern in reducing the height.
We chose to give the sides an aesthetic rounded shape within our granted reduction guidelines pleasing both our customer and the neighbours 😁

No job is too small, here is some smaller works we've carried out this month.

We are back from our holidays tomorrow, I will see alot of you on Sunday for catch up quotes.
Thankyou for your patience 😁
if you have any treeworks just give us a 📞

Here is two TPO Sycamores we reduced by 30% in March 😄👌

Large ivy removal and some trimming to finish.

Siding up this property's trees overhanging the public walkway and a crown lift on their lime tree allowing the afternoon sun cover the whole patio area.