Twelve Years In The Canopy,Run By The Man Who Climbs It, Jack Newton

Most of our work is for homeowners on the Surrey, Kent and Sussex borders who have a tree that has stopped being an asset. An oak that has grown over the roof. A conifer screen that took the light out of the garden ten years ago. A cherry that split in a February gale and is now leaning on a fence. Alongside that we work for landlords, letting agents, estates, schools, farms and builders who need a plot cleared or a boundary cut back before the next trade turns up.

What we specialise in is the awkward version of the job. Straight felling in an open field is not difficult. Taking a forty-foot ash down in sections when the drop zone is a three-metre strip between a greenhouse and a neighbour's decking is a different piece of work, and it is the kind we are set up for: a climber on ropes, two on the ground, and each section lowered rather than dropped.

Jack has been in the trade twelve years. That length of time shows up in the parts of a job customers never see, reading where a limb will swing before the cut, knowing which councils want what on a TPO application, spotting that the tree someone asked to have felled only needs a reduction and a dead-wood.

We cover fifteen towns from the Oxted yard: Oxted, Westerham, Edenbridge, Sevenoaks, Biggin Hill, Bromley, Tunbridge Wells, Redhill, Reigate, Caterham, Godstone, Lingfield, East Grinstead, Crawley, Horsham. Jobs within a 10-mile radius are standard rate; work outside that radius may carry an additional charge, and we will tell you that at quote stage rather than on the invoice.

NPTC (City & Guilds) qualified: Chainsaw Maintenance & Cross-Cutting, Felling, Tree Climbing & Aerial Rescue, and Aerial Cutting / Free-fall Techniques

12 years' experience, owner-led, three-man crew

£10 million Employers' Liability insurance

£5 million Public & Products Liability insurance

When you book a tree surgeon in Oxted you should know exactly who is turning up. Our tipper truck arrives in Newton's Tree Services livery with the business name, the mobile number and the website on the side, so there is no guessing at the gate and no cold-caller in an unmarked van asking for cash up front.

The tipper is the reason a garden looks finished at the end of the day rather than the day after. Brash goes through the chipper and straight into the back, logs are cut and loaded, and the drive is swept before we pull away. On a typical crown reduction, hedge trim or tree removal, everything we cut leaves the site with the truck unless you have asked us to leave logs or woodchip behind.

It also carries the kit that keeps a job controlled: climbing lines and rigging ropes, chainsaws maintained to NPTC standard, ground protection and cones for roadside work. That is what lets a three-man crew work over a conservatory, a greenhouse or a neighbour's fence and finish the same day.

You will see the truck around the fifteen towns we cover across Surrey, Kent and West Sussex, from Oxted and Westerham through to Sevenoaks, Tunbridge Wells, East Grinstead and Crawley. If it is parked nearby, ask the crew for a price on your own trees while we are on the road.

Qualified cutting, not improvised cutting

Jack holds NPTC and City & Guilds chainsaw certificates covering maintenance and cross-cutting, felling up to 380mm, tree climbing and aerial rescue, and aerial cutting using free-fall techniques. Aerial rescue matters most on the days nothing goes wrong, it is the ticket that means a climber can be brought down safely if it ever does.

A three-man crew, every job

One climber in the tree, two on the ground managing ropes, chipper and drop zone. That is what keeps sectioning over a greenhouse, a conservatory roof or a neighbour's fence controlled rather than hopeful, and it is why a day's work finishes in a day.

The site is left clean

Arisings are chipped and cleared as part of the price. Logs are available at £100 per tonne bag and woodchip at £50 per truck load up to 3 tonne if you want to keep them; otherwise it all leaves with us.

Paperwork handled, not passed back

Where a tree carries a Tree Preservation Order or sits in a conservation area, we make the application to the council or estate on your behalf and work to whatever consent comes back.

Written quotes, no moving numbers

Quotes are free and issued in writing after a site visit, so the figure you approve is the figure on the invoice. Guarantee available on request, ask when you book the visit.