Pine cleaning in Pound Creek

Evan Enbom • September 27, 2018

From pine plantation to fine forest

A regular customer of ours recently approached us and asked "What can we do with all these messy pines?!" Legend has it they were planted around the late 70's to early 80's using special 'forestry only' seedlings. They were never meant to grow this big (nor this fast!) especially on the windy undulating hills of Pound Creek, near Inverloch. Read through to the end to see what we did to them...

We focussed on removing ugly dead branches from the house side of the forest, felling around 10 dead 'widowmakers' and uplifting the trees along the driveway to let more light into the garden. Pictured above is Evan (again with the third person thing...we're through the looking glass people!) admiring one of the many impressive specimens. Believe it or not, Pinus radiata or 'Monterey Pine' is an endangered speciesin it's native home of California and Mexico - despite being common as mud throughout South GIppsland!

Showing off some of our (sexy) specialised tools of the trade - pictured above is a rope ascender, static climbing rope and carabiner that attaches to our climbing harness, allowing us to safety position ourselves amongst the tree tops. Check out all that deadwood in the canopy high above!

Believe it or not, but even us courageous tree climbing folk have time for awkward selfies. Ignore the boofhead in the foreground and give a round of applause to our young apprentice Byron! Busily working his way around some scritchy scratchy 70ft trees for the first time.
Over 2.5 days, hundreds of pruning cuts, many trees ascended and a few token scratches we were left with this amazing transformation below...

Voila! Compared to the 'before' photo at the top of the page, this looks about a million bucks! The customers were absolutely thrilled. Trees can be a huge asset to your property if properly cared for (even the humble Pine). If you own a property in South Gippsland or Bass Coast and would like a quote on what we can do to improve your treescape, get in touch today !

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