Arborea Tree Management

Reubin Williams runs Arborea Tree Management out of Castlemaine, and what sits behind the chainsaw here is unusual for central Victoria: diploma qualified climbing arborists. It means the person up your tree has studied how trees grow, how they fail and how they recover, and not simply how to bring one down. Between us there is a wealth of experience and knowledge across every part of tree management, which on a property carrying a mix of old and young trees usually means a different answer for each of them.

From Castlemaine we reach Maldon, the Macedon Ranges, Bendigo, Maryborough, Daylesford and Trentham, down into Melbourne and out through the smaller central Victorian towns in between. That is a lot of ground and a lot of tree types, from heritage town gardens to rural blocks of established gums. Wherever the job sits, the list is the same: tree pruning, tree removal, hedge trimming and stump removal.

Tree climbing is what lets us work the trees a machine will never get near. A tight back yard with no side access, limbs sitting over a roof, a heritage garden with no room for a truck: the limbs come off in a controlled way and get lowered rather than dropped. Where a tree worth keeping has a heavy limb or a split union, cable bracing can support it and buy the tree years it would otherwise lose.

The diploma earns its keep on the consulting side. We produce arborist reports and tree management plans, carry out tree risk assessment, and map tree protection zones for building and development work, which is what a council or a planner asks for once a tree sits inside a development footprint. Tree assessments are the domestic version of the same thing, so an owner worried about a declining tree gets a proper read on whether it is worth keeping before anything gets cut. A protection zone drawn properly at the start of a project is what stops a retained tree quietly dying two years after the builders have gone.

All of our quotes are free, with no pressure attached to them. If you have a tree you are unsure about, what you usually need first is an answer, and we are happy to spend the time explaining what is actually going on with it before anyone talks about work. Ring Reubin on 0439 326 113 and we will come and take a look.