Jeff Pearce Tree Services

Jeff Pearce Tree Services is a Tuncurry based tree business with 35+ years' experience behind it, which on the Great Lakes and Manning is about as long as anyone has been doing this work. It is a fully insured service (ABN 59 470 937 076) built on the sort of reputation that only comes from decades of turning up, doing the job properly and cleaning up afterwards. The copy on the website puts it plainly enough: when the truck pulls into your driveway, "you'll know you're in good hands".

The core of the work is tree removal, and it is aimed squarely at the trees that have stopped being an asset, the dangerous ones, the dead ones, and the ones simply in the way of what you want to do with your block. Safe removals are the priority, with the tree taken down in a controlled way rather than dropped and hoped for. Stump grinding follows on behind, so the job finishes at ground level instead of leaving a trip hazard and a sucker factory in the middle of the lawn. Site cleanup is part of the service, not an extra you chase afterwards.

Beyond removals there is a full menu of proper arboriculture. Tree pruning and trimming are pitched as work that helps trees grow strong and healthy, not just smaller, and that runs through deadwooding, crown thinning, crown raising and formative pruning for young trees being shaped for the long haul. Palm cleaning deals with the fronds and seed heads that make coastal palms a nuisance. Tree assessments and reports are available when a tree's future needs to be argued on paper. Fire hazard reduction and noxious weed removal round it out, both of which matter on rural blocks where the bush comes right up to the fence line.

Land clearing is a genuine second string rather than an afterthought. Full clearing is offered for blocks being opened up for building, pasture, fire breaks or access, which suits the mix of acreage, semi rural and coastal properties across this part of the Mid North Coast. Combined with the tree assessment work, it means one crew can look at a block, tell you what stays and what goes, and then do the going.

Jeff Pearce Tree Services is based at 24 Caleyi Cres, Tuncurry and covers Tuncurry, Forster, Taree, Wingham, Nabiac, Harrington, Old Bar, Kendall, Lansdowne and Diamond Beach. Trading hours are Monday to Saturday, 8:00am to 5:00pm, with Sunday by appointment only. Phone 0418 448 313 or email [email protected] for a quote.