Above The Rest Tree Care

Above The Rest Tree Care runs out of Conjola and covers the Shoalhaven, with more than 25 years of experience behind it. Jesse owns and runs the business, working with a crew the site actually names: Tammy, Jye, Zeb, Reily, Dane and Bob. The arborists are qualified and the business is fully insured. Naming the team is a small thing, but it is more than most tree companies bother with.

Tree removal is done using rigging, winches, cranes and elevated work platforms, the point being to bring a tree down in controlled sections rather than felling it and hoping for the best. That gear is what makes a removal possible where a tree is hemmed in and there is simply nowhere to drop it. Stump grinding takes care of what stays behind in the ground once the tree itself is gone.

Pruning, trimming and shaping covers the maintenance work, and the business makes a point of early pest and disease detection rather than only turning up once something has already failed. It is the difference between reducing a limb now and removing a whole tree in two years.

The most useful thing on the site has nothing to do with cutting at all. Above The Rest publishes a resource page on council approval for tree removal. It sets out how dead, dying or structurally unstable trees are often treated differently under local rules, walks through the NSW 10/50 Vegetation Clearing Scheme that lets eligible landowners in bushfire prone areas clear within set distances of a home without council approval, and separates routine maintenance pruning and deadwood removal from significant pruning of a protected tree. The offer is to come out, inspect the tree and help work out the right next step before any work begins. Given how often a tree job stalls on approvals rather than on the actual cutting, that is a sensible thing to lead with.

Emergency service is advertised as 24/7, aimed squarely at a tree that is already down and causing immediate danger. What comes off a job gets put to use: mulching on site, along with mulch sales and firewood sales. The service area takes in Ulladulla, Mollymook, Narrawallee, Milton, Burrill Lake, Conjola Park, Bendalong, Manyana, Cunjurong Point, Sussex Inlet, Basin View, Wandandian, Tomerong, Bawley Point, Kioloa, Morton, Woodburn and Woodstock.