Arbator Tree Services

Arbator Tree Services is a family owned tree company working across south west Victoria from bases at Warrnambool, Terang, Camperdown and Hamilton. It was founded by Hayden Banks, a master arborist and horticulturalist who still runs the business as director, and the crew is made up of qualified arborists and tree surgeons. Arbator is a fully insured and licenced business, and all work is carried out to AS4373, the Australian Standard for pruning of amenity trees, which is the difference between a tree that is pruned and a tree that is simply cut.

The everyday work covers tree removal, tree lopping, tree felling and tree climbing for the trees that must come down, along with tree pruning, tree trimming and fruit tree pruning for those that stay. Stump grinding clears the remains, hedge trimming keeps a boundary in order, and tree chipping processes the waste on site. For clients who want a shaped result rather than a reduced one, Arbator also carries out tree pleaching and tree pollarding, which are specialised techniques and a fair sign of the depth of arboricultural knowledge behind the business.

Rural south west Victoria demands more than suburban tree work, and the service list reflects it. Arbator handles fire vegetation clearing, block slashing, noxious and weed tree removal, sugar gum coppicing and log milling, along with firewood cutting and log splitting. Garden clean ups, lawn mowing and general horticulture services are available too, and on the constructive side of the ledger the company does tree planting and wildlife habitat creation, so the same crew that takes a tree out can put the next generation in.

Environmental responsibility is not a slogan here but the basis of how the material is handled. Arbator aims to be as environmentally friendly as possible and to use natural resources responsibly by recycling trees into milled timber, firewood and garden mulch, which means a felled tree leaves the site as something useful rather than as landfill. The company also provides emergency tree works and storm damage response, which in this part of the state is not a theoretical service. Free detailed quotes are offered, and because the crew is regularly working with noisy machinery in rural country with limited mobile reception, a text or an email is often the fastest way to get an answer.

Arbator Tree Services covers Warrnambool, Koroit, Port Fairy, Terang, Camperdown, Hamilton, Cobden, Mortlake, Timboon, Heywood, Macarthur, Hawkesdale, Caramut, Penshurst, Dunkeld, Glenthompson, Grassmere, Woolsthorpe, Nullawarre and Peterborough. Ring 0431 112 812 or email [email protected].