When they think of tree surgeons, most people think of climbers swinging round in trees, wielding chainsaws, their ground crews feeding cut material through chippers below. Not an unreasonable preconception either as this broadly covers the bulk of work undertaken by many tree surgery companies across the UK.

Dartmoor Tree Surgeons joined forces with South West Water and other contractors to raise money for WaterAid at Meldon reservoir last month.

It’s fair to say that most of us don’t want to pay more than absolutely necessary for any product or service, but is cheapest wisest? The first step is always to define what it is we’re looking for, perhaps a television or a car. Or tree work.

Wood chippings are brilliant for so many reasons, see here one of the many uses for wood chippings and learn its potential as a valuable recycled material.

As the first hints of summer head our way, it’s all too easy to forget the winter that was, only ten weeks ago or so, throwing its worst at the South West of England. If we do cast our minds back to that relentless round of storms that damaged historic buildings and left a gaping hole in our rail links to the west, some of the most iconic images are those of trees that came over, occasionally flattening cars or structures.

Not all timber is appropriate for milling and with log prices at an all time high converting timber into firewood is almost certainly a worthwhile consideration if you have a use for it…

We always have firewood available for sale; please call 01395 232854 for current prices and availability (prices normally increase every September). We sell split, seasoned logs – these are converted from lengths of timber that have been left in the yard for a period before being cut and split into logs and stacked under cover to season further…

First mounted in 1975 and organised by the Tree Council, National Tree Week is the UK’s largest tree celebration annually launching the start of the winter tree planting season.

October is looking like a busy month for Dartmoor Tree Surgeons, not just in terms of plenty of tree work, but also because of a full training schedule, particularly for Graham and Tom.

Autumn colour hasn’t really started to show itself as of yet on much of Devon’s tree stock, but a very obvious exception has been our Horse Chestnut trees. In fact many have been showing signs of premature autumn colour since mid summer!