Hobart Arbor Co

Hobart Arbor Co is the work of Tom, an owner-operator who trained with leading mainland arboriculture companies before coming home to Tasmania and setting up on his own in 2018. More than a decade of professional climbing sits behind the business, and it shows in how the work is done: careful planning, aerial rigging and elevated work platforms where a job calls for them, and a property left neat and tidy at the end.

Pruning is done to Australian Standard AS 4373, and the approach leans towards keeping trees rather than felling them. Tree pruning takes in deadwooding, crown lifting and thinning, height and weight reduction, formative pruning and fruit tree work. Where a tree can be kept happy and healthy, that is the advice you will get rather than a quote to remove it.

When a tree does have to come down, tree removal, climbing and dismantling are handled cleanly, followed by stump grinding and removal. Chipping and mulching tidy up the debris, and wood chip delivery means the mulch can be put back to use rather than carted off. The business even runs a couple of unusual sidelines, drone recovery and the occasional cat rescue for pets stuck up a tree.

For storm damage, fallen branches and trees that have turned into a hazard, Hobart Arbor Co offers emergency tree services with proper hazard assessment. Sustainability is more than a slogan here: the business is a proud supporter of Landcare Tasmania and works to Australian Standards and council rules throughout.

From its Hobart base it covers more than sixty suburbs across the south, among them Sandy Bay, Glenorchy, Kingston, Bellerive, Howrah, Lindisfarne, Blackmans Bay, Taroona, Sorell, Brighton, Claremont, New Town and the wider Clarence and Huon Valley areas. For honest advice on a tree, give Tom a call.