COMMERCIAL SERVICES – ABERDEEN

Arborist-Direct Aberdeen services many residential and individual business customers. But we also support some commercial enterprises. These companies utilise our arboreal and Tree Surgeon services as part of their tree cultivation businesses. In the mild wet climate of North-East of Scotland this work mainly involves spruce, pine, larch and fir trees, but increasingly rapid growth products such as willow and poplar.

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Commercial Timber Businesses.

Most commercial woodlands/ forests in Aberdeenshire are cultivated for timber with firewood and garden cover (wood-chip and bark) as by products. The timber is sold for house building materials and frequently for fencing as the local farming businesses provide a ready market for these products.

Recently, because of high fuel-oil costs, there has been considerable interest in and development of the bio-fuel market. Initially this was using compressed wood pellets for use as an easily stored fuel in residential and small business heating systems: More recently there has been an expansion of commercial heating enterprises supplying heat and hot water for large housing estates, business centres and light industry. These larger heating systems use rough woodchip as the fuel, which is readily supplied from local forests, reducing fuel transport costs considerably. As mature forest areas are felled for timber, it is organised that small stacks of tree trunks are left and stored at location and only called upon when needed as the fuel for the biomass heating system: Shredding of the tree trunks into wood-chip takes place at the forest location, meaning that transportation, in regular trucks, can be much simpler than moving full tree-trunks along small country roads.

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Tree Services for Commercial Enterprises

Arboreal services undertaken by Arborist-Direct Aberdeen usually entail:

Advice, surveys and assessments ahead of planting. These usually entail topographical and hydrological surveys, wild-life assessments and advice on tree types and varieties. Arborists and environmental specialists undertake this work.
Organisation or assistance with planting; mostly labour contracts.
Thinning and pruning small trees as they grow to ensure the main body of trees are not hindered in their growth. Tree Surgeons and Technicians are utilised.
Wildlife and ecological surveys. These assessments must be undertaken prior to any major felling or tree clearing work: eg bat surveys. These surveys are usually undertaken by accredited environmentalists.
Felling or pruning diseased trees and those damaged by storms which may impact other healthy trees. Also removing those trees blocking paths or roadways. Tree Surgeons and Technicians are utilised.
Assisting forestry contractors with main body felling of mature trees. Arborist-Direct Tree Surgeons are called upon for such work.