Crown Lifting
Crown lifting across Sussex and Surrey. Improve clearance over drives, paths, and anywhere the lower canopy is blocking something it should not.
What the job involves
Crown lifting is for when the tree is fine but the lower branches are not. They're scraping the car. They're blocking the gate. They're at head height over the path and someone's going to hit them one day. The job is to take off or shorten the lower growth carefully, enough to create useful clearance, not so much that the tree looks like a lollipop on a bare stick. Restraint matters here as much as skill.
- Confirm the clearance problem, drive, path, access, garden headroom, before specifying the work
- Assess which lower branches can come off without leaving the canopy looking stripped
- Remove or shorten lower growth back to suitable pruning points
- Protect surfaces, vehicles, and planting underneath while the work runs
- Check the finished height and balance before leaving
A customer's driveway had become unusable because of a large low oak. The branches were at windscreen height and getting lower every year. A lift cleared the headroom properly, the tree retained its shape and upper canopy, and the drive was usable again. The job took half a day and cost a fraction of what removal would have.
Not sure what you need? Call Brad.
Tell him what the tree is doing. He will give you a straight answer on the best way to deal with it. No pitch.