B&B Tree Services

B&B Tree Services is run by proprietor Michael Blythe, a qualified arborist with more than 20 years in the horticultural field. The business sits just outside Bacchus Marsh at Pentland Hills, west of Melbourne, which puts both the western suburbs and regional Victoria inside a sensible drive.

Tree removal is the bulk of the work, and storm damaged trees get a section of their own for good reason. The business runs a 24 hour emergency storm damage service and states it is available for emergency tree work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. That matters in a district where one bad westerly can put a limb across a driveway overnight.

Stumps are dealt with two ways. Stump grinding and removal is the done-for-you version, and stump grinder hire lets anyone comfortable with machinery take the grinder away and get through the job themselves. Hiring the machine out is unusual for a tree outfit and it suits a rural block with more than one stump sitting in the paddock.

The tree care side is where the arborist training shows. Crown canopy thinning opens up a dense canopy so wind and light can move through it, crown canopy lifting raises the lower limbs clear of a roof, a fence or a driveway, dead wooding takes the deadwood out before it comes down on its own, and formative pruning sets young trees up with sensible structure while the cuts are still small ones.

Green waste comes back out the gate as product, with mulch sales listed as a service in its own right. The service areas run from Bacchus Marsh through Ballarat, Creswick, Geelong, Lara, Werribee, Hoppers Crossing, Williamstown, Essendon and Ascot Vale, along with the rest of Melbourne's western suburbs and regional Victoria. Contact is by phone on 0414 244 666, by email, or through the enquiry form on the site.