For safety's sake, an old dangerous tree that leans over and whose inclination threatens to make it fall on your home. This can happen after it has been roughed up by the weather, and the possible fall of its trunk represents a real danger for the security of your possessions and the occupants of your home. As an owner, your neighbourhood can force you to take care of it. You also have the opportunity to take the lead, and take it down in prevention. From the Australian Timber Trainers Association you will have the best choices now.

To correct a bad positioning: the layout of the garden is never obvious. When you decide to plant young shoots in the ground, you do not always understand when they will become large trees. We then realize that these specimens interfere with the exposure to light and that their roots gradually damage certain masonry elements of the house.

For the sake of preservation and security: if you have several trees on your property, one of them may take up more space than the others. Gradually, each shrub placed under its shade will be deprived of light, water, and it will steal the nutrients from the earth. To save the others, you will have to shoot the biggest one.

To avoid spreading diseases among your plantations: a parasite, a fungus or other disease can touch a tree in your garden. To avoid its decline and its fall on your house or that it does not contaminate the other plantations of your plot, it is important that it is cut down. Besides the maintenance of trees on private property, logging is another reason for cutting down trees.

What are the different techniques for cutting down a tree?

Here is a list of the different slaughtering techniques, practices that arise from or are associated with it:

Felling: it consists of making two notches with a chainsaw on one side of the trunk, then a third notch called "felling cut" on the opposite side. This is generally done by cutting. To cut in the best conditions, the chain guide of the chainsaw must be adapted to the diameter of the trunk.

About the Company: Timber Training (TTT) provides nationally recognised training, safety and a consultancy service specialising but not confined to the forestry and timber products industry. TTT is a family business based in Mandurah, Western Australia. Bill Towie is the principal of TTT and a Forester with 40 years of experience in Forestry and aligned industries in Western Australia. Bill understands the pressures, difficulties and needs of the industry in Western Australia.