Axeman's Trees

Axeman's Trees is a family owned and operated tree care business covering Wollongong, the Illawarra and the Sutherland Shire. The business is younger than the hands running it: the site puts over 17 years of industry experience behind the work, and describes an operation built on "a family tradition of caring". Reece is the name that answers the phone.

The bread and butter is tree removal and tree pruning, taking out trees that have outgrown a block or been knocked about, and cutting back the ones worth keeping. Stump grinding follows on where a removal has left a stump sitting in the middle of a lawn or a garden bed. Hedge trimming rounds out the list, and the business frames the whole offering as care for trees, shrubs and hedges rather than removal work on its own. Debris and green waste are cleared as part of the job, and quotes are free.

Work is split between residential tree care and commercial tree care, so the same crew handles a single overgrown gum hanging over a back fence and the ongoing vegetation work a property manager or business needs done. The stated aim is arborist services that are "professional and guaranteed to satisfy our customers at a competitive price", and the business is fully insured. Nothing on the site is dressed up much beyond that, which suits the kind of straightforward job most people are ringing about.

Emergency tree services are a listed part of what they do, aimed squarely at storms and high winds that leave a tree unstable or already on the ground. The site is direct about how to handle it: for urgent help with a fallen or unsafe tree, ring Reece on 0423 399 622, and if a life is in danger call 000 first. The business is open seven days, Monday to Sunday from 8am, which matters when a tree comes down on a Saturday and the weekend is when you actually notice it.

The service area runs the length of the coast road and then some. North of the city that takes in Waterfall, Helensburgh, Stanwell Tops, Stanwell Park, Coalcliff, Coledale, Austinmer, Wombarra, Bulli, Woonona, Corrimal and Balgownie. South and around the lake the crew works Port Kembla, Warrawong, Windang, Lake Illawarra, Shellharbour, Shell Cove, Albion Park and Kiama, and they head north over the escarpment into the Sutherland Shire as well.