Arbor Guy

Over fifty on and off road machines sit in our fleet, checked daily by the crews that run them and serviced weekly by our own in house mechanic. Back in 2008 there were three of us. Arbor Guy now runs with more than thirty full time staff, and every job is scheduled through cloud based software with live fleet tracking, so when you ask where the crew has got to, you get an actual answer.

Carrying our own traffic management capability changes what a job looks like. Work on a roadside or near live conductors does not have to be split between three separate contractors, because we bring the traffic control with us and work to the Code of Practice for Vegetation Worker Electrical Safety. Tree maintenance and removals sit alongside stump grinding and green waste mulching on those same crews. Pruning is done to AS 4373-2007, and where a block is being built on we work to AS 4970-2009 so the tree protection stands up when the council asks to see it. Fire mitigation and utilities maintenance programmes run off the same standards.

Councils and developers come to us for the paperwork too. Our tree consultancy and auditing puts a qualified arborist on the ground and produces the report to go with it, and GPS survey and GIS mapping ties what we find to coordinates or straight line kilometre references, so what comes back to you is data. That feeds into longer term urban forestry management for councils, alongside weed control and project management on the bigger contracts. Across the South West we work for the City of Busselton, the City of Bunbury, the Shire of Augusta Margaret River, the Shire of Capel and the Shire of Nannup, along with Main Roads WA, Water Corporation, the Department of Fire and Emergency Services, Parks and Wildlife Service and the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.

Managing Director Guy Badger still heads out with a team each year to Foresters Wood Farm, a community arboretum where we donate the time, the machinery and the resources, and since 2017 we have put more than thirty possum boxes into trees around the Capes region with GeoCatch so the western ringtail has somewhere to live. Between the team there is a Diploma in Arboriculture, a Cert IV in Land Management, a QTRA registered user and a stack of machinery tickets. We are a WALGA Preferred Supplier, a General Member of Arboriculture Australia and a Professional Member of ArbWest, and our environmental work was recognised at the 2020 South West Business Excellence Awards.

When a storm goes through, our 24/7 emergency and disaster response crews clear fallen trees and debris, take down what has become dangerous and brace what can still be saved, with the evidence recorded properly for insurance and Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements claims. We hold ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 45001:2018 certification, we are registered as a Pest Management Business, and we carry fifty million dollars in public liability, fifty million in workers compensation and four million in indemnity cover. Ring us and we will come out and look at the job, and once a crew is booked you can be told exactly where it is.