The Risks of Tree Removal - Doing it Yourself

There are many reasons that can be involved in making judgement of whether to remove a tree or not Reasons for tree removal based on home environment in Stockport area include:

1. To achieve certain level of neatness and beauty in the home environment
2. Tree may pose some hazardous risk such as falling of the tree due to its old age or location near a swap.
3. Wishes and desires of the home owner.
4. Considering the damage the tree may be causing to the surrounding environment such as roots causing cracks to the neighboring house floor.

There are many other risk factor that may cause while tree removal. The following are the basic steps taken if you hire expert..

Tree removal:

1. Check for obstacles in the neighboring environment of the tree to ensure unobstructed free fall of the tree.if there are obstucled establish means of removing the to avoid unnecessary destruction of property.

2. Identify the path which the tree will fall.The best fall would be the angle at which the tree grows.

3. Identify two escape routes which can be used when the tree is falling.The routes should be on either side of tree.

Tree removal involves a lot of risk thus it is advised for someone to hire professional Tree Surgeons in Stockport .The professionals themselves encounter grave injuries when undertaking tree removal thus making it a dangerous activity it an individual decides to undertake tree removal themselves the following are the dangerous events involved:

• Risk of harm due to the tools being used- Various tools can be used during tree removal, they include ladders ,handsaws and chainsaws.inappropriate handling of these tools can inflict pain and at some extreem cases cause injuries or even death of the tree remover
• Trees may seem strong at the outside but rotten in the inside thus during the process of tree removal this may lead unexpected fall of the tree causing unnecessary destruction, injuries to onlookers and even death to both the person cutting the tree and onlookers
• Predictability of direction of the falling tree-conditions such as natural wind and angle of growth of the tree may change the direction of the falling tree.misjudgement of the tree remover may cause injuries or death to him or her.
• It is also very hard to remove stump after you cutting down the tree yourself so it's best to hire a Stockport stump removal expert to do the task for you.

Thus risks involved are

• The loss of life by either the tree removers or onlookers
• Injuries due to the above events
• Unnecessary destruction of surrounding property
• Electrocution of the tree remover, if it happens the tree falls to a nearby power line