Contracting arm goes live!

In partnership with a small local company we are pleased to announce the formation of 'Corwen Tree Services'.

CTS is the culmination of over 10 years working in the arboricultural field, over seen and managed by Woodland Solutions CTS aims to provide high quality arboricultural services within a 40 mile radius of its operating base.

CTS is to become a member of Checkatrade What is Checkatrade?  Well see below for details!

What is Checkatrade?

When you need work doing around your home, finding reputable tradesmen can be difficult. Can you really trust them? Checkatrade is a free service that gives you the background information you need to make a confident decision.

We offer you a directory of trades and services who have been vetted to our high standards, for example by verifying their insurance, qualifications and professional memberships. Not only that, but we also monitor their work on an ongoing basis by collecting feedback directly from their customers.

Corwen Tree Services has a brand new website which can be found HERE! so for tree felling, tree reduction, tree thinning, stump grinding, planting and wood chip supply get in contact with US today!

We can also be found on Twitter!!

A sunny Easter break...

Not a great deal to update our readers on this time around!

We have been enjoying the lovely weather both here in North Wales and down in our Southern office in The new Forest over the Easter break.

Several exciting developments are in the pipeline, one is our new membership of www.checkatrade.com which will hopefully be fully live in the next 10 days or so.  If we have carried out work for you, then expect a customer monitoring card through the post any day soon, all feedback gratefully received!

We have changed our insurers to Trust insurance and have been very impressed with their speedy service, all our public liability, professional indemnity and employers policies are through them now.

We are tied up at the moment on a variety of surveying and Health and Safety projects and are now offering support for companies looking to achieve Achilles UVDB and Link-up accreditations.

That's all for now... enjoy the sunshine...

As one door closes...

Throughout my business career, the months have been punctuated between extreme elation at 'winning that big contract', desperation 'how are we going to deliver this on time and to budget' and despair 'this contract finishes next week, what next?'.

I think as a small business owner it is important to relax, if your are treating your clients correctly and promoting yourself in the right circles then that next instruction will come.

We at Woodland Solutions are nearing the conclusion of a large surveying tender in the Midlands which has tied up 3 surveyors and office support since Mid-January.  Just as my mind starts to wander we have enquiries come in for business support in Scotland, health and safety support to a tree surgery company in North Wales, sub-contract consultancy in Lincolnshire and a large trees in relation to construction package in London.  We get about!

I have taken a couple of hours out from planning our work load today to read the latest copy of the Arboricultural Associations 'Arb Magazine' which arrived just in time to fire up the kettle this morning.  I like many of my peers used to dismiss the Arboricultural Association, now I find I increasingly look forward to reading their publications.  Many of our staff will be going on courses with the AA this year as part of their continued professional development.  If you haven't already, check them out: www.trees.org.uk

Well back to the typing I suppose!

Matt Harmsworth Consultant Arborist, WSUK Ltd

The in's and out's of it...

Well what a week we have had this week!  We have been mainly working on a geographical information system for a housing association in the West Midlands.  Three specialist surveyors have been on this full time for two weeks now with office support when required.  They are building up a database of information so the GIS teams can access up to date tree data at their figure tips.

We have also carried out a visual tree assessment and report for two single trees in a domestic setting in North Wales, a couple of PICUS sonic tomographs where the internal condition of a tree is built up in a 2d image using the principle that sound wood conducts sound waves better than decayed wood.  Some arboricultural site supervision work on a building site and some Health and Safety support for a tree surgeons in North Wales.

We are finding the Health and Safety role is one that is becoming increasingly called upon from the arboricultural industry, our support enables companies to get through the rigorous post tender assessments that actually allow them to get onto site and carry out what they do best!

For example we have recently produced to site health and safety folders, one for a large road scheme and one for a wind farm, we will then go to site and make sure all present fully understand the information before work commences.  It is no good instructing a consultancy to prepare documents you don't understand!  We fully believe our support service are second to none.

Thanks to Brett, Rob, Matt, Anne and Kevin for working so hard this week!

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Welcome!

Well, we are new to this blogging business so bare with us and we shall try and make it interesting at some point!

We are an arboricultural consultancy working nationwide with offices in North Wales and Birmingham.

We carry out tree safety surveys, woodland management advice, advice in relation to trees and construction (BS5837) and offer health and safety consultancy services for predominantly tree surgeons.  So basically if it's woody we do it!