Bayside Trees

Bayside Trees works out of Black Rock, and was started by Chris Garbacz, a Bayside local. The crews are qualified arborists and the business carries $20 million in public liability insurance. The way the site puts it, the aim is a professional tree service homeowners can rely on when they need help managing trees safely. Work runs across Melbourne's bayside suburbs and down onto the Mornington Peninsula.

Most of the day to day is tree removal and tree pruning. For removals the crew use professional climbing, rigging and lowering techniques, which is how a big tree comes out of a suburban backyard without taking the fence or the roofline with it. The kit runs to climbing and rigging equipment, commercial chainsaws, wood chippers, stump grinders, and elevated work platforms where a job calls for one. Branches and green waste go with them and the site is left clean.

Stump grinding usually follows a removal, and they say the specialist gear gets into front yards, backyards and restricted-access spots, which is the usual sticking point on a narrow bayside block. Hedge trimming, palm tree removal and cleaning, tree lopping and tree cutting cover the rest of the domestic work. There is also cabling and bracing for trees worth keeping but structurally suspect, plus land and site clearing, on-site wood chipping, green waste removal, and firewood cutting and supply.

Paperwork is handled too. Bayside Trees writes arborist reports to AS4970 for council permit applications to remove or prune, insurance claims after storm damage, pre-purchase property inspections, risk assessments on dangerous or damaged trees, and development work near trees that have to stay. When a tree fails rather than gets scheduled, emergency tree removal is available 24/7 for urgent situations, day or night. You can send a photo through the form on the site or just call or text the mobile.

The patch runs from Black Rock, Brighton, Brighton East, Hampton, Hampton East, Sandringham and Beaumaris through Highett, Cheltenham, Mentone, Parkdale and Mordialloc, then down the bay to Aspendale, Edithvale, Chelsea, Bonbeach, Carrum and Seaford, and on to Frankston, Frankston South, Mount Eliza and Mornington. Commercial tree services are offered across the same area. Normal trading is Monday to Saturday, 8am to 4pm.