Entirely New Zealand owned and operated, Treescape began more than 20 years ago when current directors Edward Chignell and Brandon Whiddett started their working lives with a VW beetle, a couple of chainsaws and plenty of youthful enthusiasm.
Today, Treescape employs more than 250 trained staff with six regional depots covering all of New Zealand.
Customers include councils, utilities, government agencies, construction companies, developers, corporations and private individuals throughout New Zealand.
Treescape’s business mission is to be innovative and set the benchmark for vegetation management in Australasia. This includes delivering a service that exceeds the customer’s expectations and to ensure the health and safety of our personnel. Clients and the public are paramount in all our endeavours.”
We strive to build long-term partnerships and we treat our clients the way we like to be treated; with respect, trust and understanding.
Treescape’s policy is to carry out all work in a manner that sustains and enhances the environment. At all times we strive to avoid adverse effects on the environment; however, if an incident does arise, our aim is to minimise, remedy or mitigate any negative affect.
Treescape aims to do things in a smarter, more efficient way, with a better final result. By developing specialist machinery, such as the mulching and grooming heads fitted on excavators in our land clearing division, we’ve reduced work time and improved safety on the job. Our whole tree chippers process wood and vegetation quickly to produce a recyclable product in the form of landscape mulch. Our development of machinery for straw mulching provides an efficient solution for erosion control on development sites.
Treescape is dedicated to producing quality work. Project managers are required to conduct a fortnightly review of all work done by their crews. Audits of work-in-progress determine if the crew is working safely, to specifications and complying with company policies.
The company operates more than 320 vehicles and major plant items worth in excess of $12 million, Treescape has earned a reputation for the development of rugged machinery required for heavy arboricultural clearing work.
This includes Elevating Platform Vehicles (EPVs), Tip Trucks, Chippers, Excavator Mulchers, Stump Grinders, Tractor Mulchers, Straw Mulchers, Specialist Trucks for cartage.
Treescape’ specialist services include residential / commercial, land-clearing / development, local government and transplanting.
The key to the Treescape promise of excellent professional service - on any sized job - is its staff. Treescape aborists are trained to prune trees to modern arboricultural standards, using the latest equipment available. Our aim is always to work efficiently and leave a tidy site. The Treescape motto of “Safety First”, backed up by generous public liability insurance, ensures every job is competed to a high standard and with respect for the safety of staff, client and the public.
Treescape’s landclearing division carries out all aspects of development enablement work to prepare land for future construction. Our specialist team comprises experienced heavy machinery operators, arborists and staff from allied fields such as forestry and landscaping. We’ll do everything from clearing trees and undergrowth, and grinding stumps, to stockpiling mulch for sediment control. We carry out specialist tasks required for resource consent, such as putting in silt frames and straw mulching for erosion control. We will transplant trees to or from the site and do the landscape planting.
Treescape provides specialist arboricultural services for the care of street and park trees. Local authorities require a high standard of workmanship, where safety is paramount. Treescape delivers a quality job, deploying specialist plant to give access to parks, and backed up by our innovative data collection software to assist in the efficient management of the tree assets. Treescape brands its plant with the council's logos or brandings. We provide a seamless interface between the public and the council.
For real impact on a development site or to create a feeling of instant maturity in a park or streetscape, transplanting large trees can be the answer. Transplanting mature trees to a new location within the same site can also help free up construction space where trees must be retained to comply with resource consent.
Treescape has the experience to move trees from 4kg to 140 tonnes - from one city block to the length of the country. Over the years we have drawn on the knowledge of experts around the world to develop methods and equipment ideal for New Zealand conditions. Our specially-built lifting frames and root ball strapping extract the maximum root ball for the tree’s health and contain it while being transported.
Fully grown trees can be moved with ease, provided access and ground conditions allow. Preparation and adequate aftercare are the key to successful transplanting. Our team of specialist transplanters can provide irrigation and soil enhancement to optimise the tree’s long term health.
Treescape’s treespades are another option for transplanting. They provide a quick and cost effective way to transplant, with minimum stress on the tree.
The truck-mounted spade enables us to move trees over large distances at speed, site-to-site or town-to-town. For more difficult or inaccessible sites, the treespade can be mounted on an excavator.
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