Meet The Team
Nick Cranston
Managing Director
Based: Westbury HQ
Qualifications: Arboriculture Technicians Certificate: Merit / National Certificate (City & Guilds) Arboriculture
Specialist Skills: Client Liaisons / Project Consultation / Business Management
Home Town: Chapmanslade
Favourite Tree (and why): Beech – Beautiful, majestic, strong and great autumn colours
Favourite Acer Moment: Has to be establishing the Malmesbury HQ – very exciting!
Based: Malmesbury HQ
Qualifications & Specialist Skills: Arboricultural Association (Pro Member) / FDSC Arboriculture / ND Arboriculture, Technical Arboriculture & Rigging / NPTC
Home Town: Malmesbury
Favourite Tree (and why): Blackthorn & Pyracantha – I love thorns!
Favourite Acer Moment: A bolt of lightning had rendered a very large (130ft), and very old oak – at St Katherine’s School, Marlborough – unsafe. Cranes, chains, the lot… Fantastic! [Click for my YouTube video]
Adam Roberts
Senior Arborist and Acer Director
Roy Derham
Operations Manager
Based: Westbury HQ
Qualifications & Specialist Skills: Client Liaisons / Scheduling / Project Management / Logistics …Basically ‘the details’! Oh and a pretty bloody good tree surgeon too!
Home Town: Devizes
Favourite Tree (and why): Silver Birch – very aesthetically pleasing, easy to work with, lovely dappled shade in the summer months
Favourite Acer Moment: Any project when all the team are working together. Particularly staff training / skills update days – we head into the woods and hone our skills, e.g.: rigging techniques / aerial rescues / etc. Terrific!
Based: Malmesbury HQ
Qualifications: NTPC Certificate
Home Town: Sutton Veny
Specialist Skills: Forestry / Charcoal-ing / Log splitting
Favourite Tree (and why): Ash – Such a handsome tree, and very versatile creatively. (And they’re not out-of-the-woods from ‘Ash Dieback’ yet either. Keep your eyes peeled…)
Favourite Acer Moment: Being warmly welcomed back into the company after I left to pursue an unfulfilling carer as a plumber.
Adam Pearson (or usually just: 'P')
Team Leader & Arborist
Lewis Cook
The Carabiner King!
Based: Wherever I’m called!
Home Town: Warminster
Skills & Qualifications: NTPC Certificate
Favourite Tree (and why): Bay Tree – Great to work with, great to cook with!
Favourite Acer Moment: Adam R and I plucked 2 massive cedars with a crane in Lacock, Wilts. Amazing day.
Based: Wherever I’m called!
Home Town: Salisbury
Skills & Qualifications: NTPC Certificate
Favourite Tree (and why): Silver Birch – low knot count and soft under the blade.
Favourite Acer Moment: The day I started of course!
Joe Lawrence
Stihl Commander
Based: Malmesbury HQ
Home Town: ‘The Sham’ – Melksham
Skills & Qualifications: NTPC Certificate / Diploma in Horticulture
Favourite Tree (and why): Pittosporum. …why not!? It’s a nice tree!
Favourite Acer Moment: Getting all the kit and trailers together of a busy morning in the yard – I used to love Bob the Builder when I was a kid!
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IC Chipper
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