• All tree work carried out to British Standard BS3998
• NPTC/Lantra-qualified team, fully insured
• Free, no-obligation quotes across Boghead and the Clyde Valley

An old orchard boundary tree past its best, a glasshouse frame smothered in ivy, a garden conifer that's outgrown its corner plot - the calls that come in from Boghead tend to follow the ground's own history rather than a standard suburban brief. [[LINK:https://www.glasgowtrees.co.uk/|Glasgow Trees]] handles all of it from this page: felling, crown reduction, pruning, stump grinding, hedge work and site clearance, priced after a free, no-obligation look at the actual tree rather than a guess made down the phone.

Every job here, from a single leaning garden tree to a full shelterbelt thinning, is carried out to British Standard BS3998 by a fully insured crew - the same standard and the same paperwork behind a small prune as behind a bigger clearance job.

Trading as Glasgow Trees since 2005, the crew that comes out to quote a Boghead job is the same one that finishes it, rather than a salesperson handing the work on to someone else afterwards. That matters more on ground like this than it sounds: an orchard boundary line or a shelterbelt planted decades ago doesn't always behave the way a textbook tree does, and the person pricing the job is also the person who has to stand under it with a saw.

• Tree removal and felling, including hazardous limbs taken down before the main trunk
• Crown reduction, crown lifting, crown thinning and pollarding
• Fine and standard pruning and trimming
• Stump grinding and stump removal
• Hedge management, trimming and topiary shaping
• Tree planting and species advice
• Ground, land and site clearance, including vegetation management
• Tree inspections, surveys and reports, including for mortgages, insurance, planning and Tree Preservation Order cases
• Tree cabling and bracing for split, cracked or unbalanced limbs
• 24-hour emergency and dangerous tree work
• Commercial grounds maintenance and highways/trackside arboriculture

• Any work beyond what's on the original quotation is discussed and agreed with you first, never carried out or added to the bill without your knowledge
• Consent to fell, prune or work on a tree covered by a Tree Preservation Order or in a conservation area rests with the local council; we can prepare the supporting survey or report but can't guarantee the application is approved
• Stump grinding is usually priced and scheduled separately from the felling itself, since it needs a different machine and a second visit in some cases

1. Enquiry and free quote -- You call or get in touch describing the tree, hedge or site problem - whether that's a single garden tree, an orchard boundary line, or a hedge that's got away from you - and we arrange a free, no-obligation quote around whichever of those it turns out to be.
2. Site visit and plan of work -- An arborist looks at the tree or area in person, checking access, nearby buildings, utilities, orchard boundary lines and power lines, and agrees the plan and any extra work with you there and then rather than leaving it to be raised later. On older Boghead ground this often means walking a boundary line or a shelterbelt rather than just standing in front of one tree.
3. Carrying out the work -- Felling, pruning, stump grinding or clearance is carried out to British Standard BS3998, using the right rope, harness, rigging or plant equipment for the job, with anything unexpected that turns up on the day discussed and agreed before it goes ahead rather than added to the bill afterwards.
4. Clean-up and sign-off -- Arisings are chipped, removed or left as logs by arrangement, the site is left tidy, and you get the chance to check the work before we leave - including the stump, if grinding it out was part of what was agreed.
5. Price agreed on site -- Because tree size, ground access and whether stump grinding gets added all move the final figure, nothing is booked in until a price has been agreed against what's actually found on the visit, not a guess made over the phone, and that figure covers the whole job rather than arriving as a series of add-ons later.

Stump grinding is the item most likely to come as a separate cost here, since it calls for its own machine and sometimes its own visit rather than riding along with the felling price. Leaving a stump in place isn't free either in the longer run - it can attract pests and disease into an old orchard boundary line, which is worth weighing against the extra grinding cost rather than assuming the cheaper option is to leave it. What happens to the arisings changes the figure too - chipped and hauled away costs differently to being left stacked as logs for you to keep - and whether the site needs a straightforward fell or a slower, roped sectional dismantle near a fence, glasshouse footing or power line plays into it as well. All of that gets worked out together at the same time as everything else in Step 5 above, rather than being priced piece by piece after the fact.

Restoration work at Pollok Country Park, home to the city's tallest Sitka spruce at over 33 metres, has put the team in among mature, high-value trees where the margin for error is small and every cut has to be worked out before the saw goes near the tree. That same habit of thinking a job through carries over to Boghead's older orchard boundary lines and shelterbelts, where a badly judged fell can just as easily bring down a fence, a glasshouse footing or a neighbour's hedge as the tree itself. Backing that judgement is a set of Lantra/NPTC plant tickets covering the stump grinder, wood chipper, timber crane, 360 excavator, forwarder trailer, line skidder, flail and telehandler, plus certificates in windblown trees, aerial rescue and rigging, so the machine that turns up matches the ground rather than one tool being stretched to cover every job. Live-line utility cutting training is also underway within the team, adding to that list rather than replacing any of it. Glasgow Trees has traded since 2005, is fully insured, and carries out all of this work to British Standard BS3998.

The ground around Boghead was historically given over to fruit orchards and glasshouses rather than woodland, and that history still shapes the work here: old orchard boundary lines, garden trees planted decades ago, and shelterbelts that need thinning rather than dense forestry blocks needing management. Glasgow's own canopy cover runs at around 15%, above the UK's 10% urban average, but Boghead's ground is more open again - what orchard planting is left has thinned to scattered boundary lines and shelterbelts rather than continuous cover of any kind. Callouts to Boghead are usually combined with other jobs across South Lanarkshire on the same run, and the M74 and M8 corridors put Glasgow City, Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire, East and West Dunbartonshire, Inverclyde, Stirling and Bo'ness within reach on the same day, so booking a job here doesn't mean waiting for a dedicated trip out.

Dead limbs, unbalanced crowns and overgrown hedges tend to get worse, not better, over a winter of Clyde Valley weather, and a small job now is usually cheaper and safer to deal with than an emergency call-out later. That's as true of an old orchard boundary tree or a shelterbelt left to its own devices for a few years as it is of a single garden conifer. Get in touch for a free, no-obligation site visit and find out exactly what your trees or hedges need before the next storm makes the decision for you.

Glasgow Trees
Call 0141-483-7485