Ants Treeworks

Langwarrin sits right on the seam where Melbourne's south east stops being suburbs and the Mornington Peninsula starts, and that is a useful place to keep a truck. From the yard here, Ants Treeworks runs north through Seaford, Carrum Downs, Noble Park, Mentone, Highett, Moorabbin, Brighton, Box Hill and Ringwood, east to Cranbourne and Berwick, and the whole way down the peninsula through Frankston, Mount Eliza, Hastings, Tyabb, Dromana, Rosebud, Rye, Blairgowrie and Sorrento.

Anthony has fifteen years in tree surgery behind him and more than two thousand clients on the books, and the crew is fully licensed and accredited. We are open 7am to 7pm every day of the week, with emergency tree removal outside those hours when a limb has already failed. A quote costs you nothing and it comes back fast, because most people ringing about a tree over a roof are not in a mood to wait a fortnight to hear a number.

Here is the part of the operation people do not expect. Every tree we take out gets sorted on site: the green goes through the chipper, and the hardwood is kept, split and dried out properly before it goes anywhere. That becomes our firewood, mixed hardwood gum, reclaimed from local trees and dry enough to burn the day it lands, which means less smoke and less ash in your flue. It starts at $195 a cubic metre including delivery, about half a tonne, and it is on your driveway inside 48 hours anywhere within about 15km of Langwarrin. Collecting it as we work is cheaper for us than paying to dump it, and that is the reason the price is what it is.

The rest of the work is straightforward enough. Tree removal covers a single hazardous tree leaning on a house through to a yard grown over past the point of a mower, and most jobs land between $350 and $1,500, with the average sitting around $900 to $1,100. For the trees staying put, pruning and mulching keep them in order and put the chip back on your garden beds, then stump removal and stump grinding take the rest down to level ground so there is nothing left to mow around. And because we are keeping the timber anyway, any removal comes with free firewood and free mulch if you want them. Ring 0424 609 090 and tell us what the tree is doing.