Global Arborist Australia

Global Arborist Australia works out of Port Melbourne and is run by Jack Balsamo, who started in the trade in 2008 and has spent the fifteen years since working on trees here and overseas. He holds a Cert III and a Diploma in Arboriculture, a QTRA qualification for risk assessment, and training through ABBA International. The business carries $20 million in public liability cover and WorkCover.

Tree removal is split into the jobs people actually ring about. Dead, diseased or structurally unsound trees that have become a safety problem. Block clearance, where a site has to be cleared before building or landscaping starts. And emergency storm work, with 24/7 callouts across Melbourne when a tree comes down or a limb is left hanging. Removals are done with safe rigging and climbing technique rather than brute force where the setting demands it.

The pruning list is more detailed than most: formative pruning on young trees, weight reduction and canopy reduction on ones that have got away, property clearance where branches are into a roof or a line, dead wooding, and the removal of broken and hanging branches after wind. Habitat creation is offered as a pruning outcome rather than an afterthought, and cabling and bracing using steel cables gives a structurally weak tree the support to stay standing instead of being felled.

What the business calls the "give back" concept runs through the work. The line on site is that tree removals "don't have to be wasteful" and can instead become an opportunity to give back to your garden, so material off a job comes back as mulch, split firewood, or habitat features left for wildlife. There is a quality mulch drop-off and a firewood cutting and splitting service on the same basis. The crew runs battery-powered pruning saws and arborist tools to keep emissions and noise down, which is unusual enough in Melbourne tree work to be worth noting.

Arborist reports and tree planting round out the offer. Work covers Melbourne broadly, with Port Melbourne and North Melbourne named specifically on the site, and the business is open Monday to Friday from 7am and on weekends from 8am.