Emergency Tree Services Launceston

Launceston sees two main storm patterns. The cold fronts that push up the Tamar Valley in winter saturate the ground and tip trees that looked fine last season — root plates fail silently before anything gives way at the surface. Then there are the summer northerlies that stress eucalypts into dropping heavy limbs without warning. Either pattern can mean a call at two in the morning. When that happens, we triage by phone first — find out whether anyone is in danger, whether powerlines are involved and whether the tree is still moving — then dispatch the closest crew to your address.

On arrival, stopping further damage comes before cutting anything. If a tree has hit a roof, that means getting material off and tarping the opening. If a partially fallen trunk is still loaded and unstable, it gets braced or propped before we do anything else. For limbs suspended in the upper canopy — a common result of a Launceston wind event — we use throwlines and rope systems to bring them down in pieces, one at a time, never just cut and walk back.

Most Launceston storm jobs end up with an insurance claim attached. We produce a written job report that sets out the date, the weather conditions, the work done and our Certificate of Currency. That document is what your insurer asks for. Home and contents policies generally cover the make-safe and removal of material that caused the damage. Stump work and replanting usually fall outside what the policy pays for unless they're directly tied to the claim.