Our Tree Felling service exists because a falling tree’s weight, lean, internal condition, and surrounding obstacles interact in ways that are genuinely hard to predict without training. Even confident hobbyist chainsaw users regularly misjudge fall direction, and the consequences are irreversible the moment the cut is made.
What Our Tree Felling Service Controls That DIY Can’t
- Crown weight and lean that isn’t always obvious from the ground
- Wind, even a light gust, pushing a partially cut tree off its intended line
- Internal decay or rot pockets changing how the trunk fails mid-cut
- Root plate condition, affecting whether the tree falls cleanly or twists
We use back cuts, wedges, and where needed rigging or crane assistance, techniques built specifically to control these variables.
How Backyard Felling Attempts Go Wrong
The most common failures involve underestimating crown lean, cutting the notch at the wrong angle, or not accounting for how much weight branches add once factored in. A trunk that looks straight can carry a significant unseen lean higher up.
What Do Safety Regulations Require?
Tree felling near boundaries, power lines, or public areas is governed by workplace safety regulations that apply whether it’s a hired contractor or a homeowner with a chainsaw. Felling near overhead power lines carries additional statutory exclusion zones.
How We Manage Constrained Residential Sites
- Sectional dismantling, removing the tree piece by piece top-down
- Directional felling with wedges and rigging to place the trunk precisely
- Crane-assisted removal where ground-based methods carry unacceptable risk to structures
What DIY Felling Means for Your Insurance
If a DIY attempt damages a neighbour’s property, most home insurance won’t cover that liability the way it would damage from a licensed, insured contractor’s work.
Get Felling Done by People Who Manage the Risk
With full insurance and a job safety analysis on every site, our Tree Felling service controls exactly the variables a DIY attempt can’t.
Where felling is combined with other work on the same visit, deadwooding neighbouring trees or clearing garden beds around the felling zone, it’s often more cost-effective to bundle the jobs into a single visit than book them separately.
We also plan around access constraints like narrow side passages, overhead structures, and neighbouring gardens, since getting equipment and crew safely to the tree is often as much a puzzle as the felling itself in tighter Hobart blocks.
We also factor in the tree’s final resting point for the timber itself, sometimes cutting sections to a length that suits firewood use if that’s something you’d like to keep rather than have removed entirely from the site.
Where felling is combined with other work on the same visit, dead wooding neighbouring trees or clearing garden beds around the felling zone, it’s often noticeably more cost-effective to bundle the jobs into a single visit rather than booking them separately over time.
It’s also worth noting that a tree that looks straightforward to fell from the ground can turn out to have significant unseen lean higher up in the crown, which is exactly the kind of detail a proper assessment catches before any cut is made.
Call 0407 128 633 any time for emergency response, or visit irwinclementstreeservice.com.au.