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Gallery

Glimpses of the work

Rope climbing, fellings, aerial platform and findings from tree inspections – photographed on our job sites in Luxembourg.

Row of completely dried-out thujas – drought damage

Felled thuja secured with a rope winch

Two chainsaws on the stump, felled stems on the rope behind

Chipper and fresh mulch pile – cuttings stay on site as mulch

Mighty dead oak torso kept as a habitat tree in a meadow

Deadwood beetle on birch bark

Metallic blue leaf beetle on a leaf

Pine seedling with hand-written label in the seed tray

Seed tray with freshly germinated tree seedlings

Young home-grown conifers in pots

Benjes hedge under construction: cuttings layered between stakes

Neatly layered cuttings of the Benjes hedge

Finished Benjes hedge at the garden edge under the tree

Group of trees after complete deadwood removal, tree house in the background

Thinning a lime – climber in the fine branches

Two dead trees between chalets on a campsite

Chainsaw on the stump, felled stem on the ground

View over the stumps to the felled stems

Maintenance pruning on an old standard with a ladder at the forest edge

Old standard pear laden with mistletoe during a relief pruning

Honey fungus rhizomorphs on debarked deadwood

Zoned fungal brackets on mossy wood

Black fruiting layer in a trunk wound

Large, bleached bracket fungus on an old trunk

White fruiting bodies on a lying stem section

Pollarded plane with tufts of regrowth at every cut

Branch disc with heart discolouration, held in a hand

Pear tree in full bloom

Flowering cherry tree in evening light

Variety exhibition with old apple and pear varieties

Gärtchesbirne – old local variety from northern Luxembourg

Winter Banana apple with its variety label

Sectional dismantling of a birch on the rope

Young fruiting bodies on a mossy trunk

Branch disc with discolouration in the heart

Cherry tree full of ripe cherries

Cut red-fleshed apple held in a hand

Two halves of a red-fleshed apple

Red apple on a young spindle tree

Two dark red apples with bloom

Dark red apple with leaf on the garden table

Apple with flame-like markings around the stalk

Dark pink apple blossom of a red-leaved variety

Apple blossom on a young tree

Pear blossom

Apricot buds breaking open

Fruiting wood with plump flower buds

Spindle tree after the winter pruning

Orchard in rows after pruning

Crab apple full of red fruit

Dark grapes on the vine

Red-flowering strawberry

Measuring the stem girth

Probe in the trunk

Fungal mycelium in the wood

Tom Aakrann with a hand saw, looking into the crown

Cut with the hand saw at the stem

Two climbers on two stem tops

Rope climbing in the crown

Climbing spurs on the boot

Tom Aakrann in the crown of a cherry plum

Crown pruning with a battery saw

Checking the climbing gear before the ascent

Climbing harness and rope clamp

Climbing device on the rope

Ropes, pulleys and carabiners

Climbing rope over the ladder into the crown

Cherry plum with ladder before the job

Fungal fruiting body on a cherry

Fungal fruiting body on a beech

Bracket fungus

Stem disc with heart rot

Crown dismantling in a pine – rope climbing with a battery saw

Ascent in the pine, dogwood in autumn colour

Dismantling the crown piece by piece

Working in the fork – secured with two systems

Two-man team on neighbouring stems

Sectional felling as a team – dismantled from top to bottom

Stem sections lowered under control

Two climbers in the pine tops

The top comes off first

Checking each other before the ascent

Climbing spurs – only for fellings, never on a tree that is kept

Standing at the stem with spurs and lanyard

Aerial platform at the playground – crown maintenance over the play area

Aerial work platform in use

Working from the basket

Tools: felling saw, axe and wedges

Ground crew on the rope

Coordinating on the ground

Carrying the stem sections through the garden

Cuttings carried off together

Two-man team

Directional notch with wedge – controlled felling

Stem lying in the planned direction

Cross-cutting at the stump

Left tidy: stump, discs and stem sections

The garden after the job

Garden tree after crown maintenance

Tuft of fungi at the stem base

Bracket fungus in an old bark wound

Bark necrosis with discharge

Stem disc with decay

Moss-covered burl – habitat on the trunk