DC Tree Care

DC Tree Care is a small Shoalhaven tree outfit run by Dave Kelly, covering Nowra, Berry and the district around them. The website is a short one, a couple of pages and a phone number, and Dave is the name attached to it. The work is described as being done by qualified arborists with years of tree removal and pruning behind them, though no certifications or insurance figures are put on the page.

Tree removal and tree pruning are the core of the business, with the emphasis on awkward jobs: trees in tight access spots where there is no room to drop timber and the whole thing has to come out in sections. Removal itself is framed as a decision about safety, space or how a place looks, which is a fairer way of putting it than treating every tree as a candidate for the chainsaw. Pruning covers the trees worth keeping and the routine maintenance that stops them becoming a problem later.

Stump grinding follows on after a removal, done with purpose built gear so the stump comes out below ground level and does not shoot away again the following spring. Land clearing handles the larger jobs where a whole block needs opening up rather than a single tree taken out. Hedging and shaping rounds out the maintenance side, covering both formal hedges that need a straight line held and the general seasonal tidy up.

Tree health assessments are the most interesting thing on the list. The point is to get someone qualified looking at a tree before it turns into a problem, checking for disease, pests and structural weakness so an owner can choose between treating it, reducing it or taking it out while there is still a choice to be made. On a coastal block carrying mature gums, that is a call worth making early rather than after a limb has already come down.

Emergency tree services cover storm damage and hazardous tree removal, with the business offering rapid response when a tree has come down or been left hanging. Along this part of the coast a southerly blow is a regular event, and a damaged tree sitting over a roof or blocking a driveway is not something to leave until next week. Jobs are taken on across the Shoalhaven, Nowra and Berry included.