Macedon Ranges Tree Service

A Bandit 1590xp chipper, a 65 horsepower Vermeer stump grinder, a fifteen metre JLG cherry picker, a Mitsubishi tray truck with a twenty four foot tray, a tipper carrying a twelve cubic metre bin, 580k front end loaders, Husqvarna commercial saws and a full set of specialist rigging gear. That is what turns up when you book Macedon Ranges Tree Service, and it is the reason a job that would take somebody else three visits takes us one.

Rowan Strange has owned and run the business since 2007, and is a certified arborist and climber. The forestry goes back a great deal further than that: this family has been in forest work since the early 1900s. Ken Strange brings forty years to the crew, and Tommo has nine years in rigging and ground operations, which is the part of a removal where things go wrong quietly if nobody knows what they are doing. We value the safety of our workers and your property and we are fully insured.

Confined space removal is where the rigging and the machines have to work together. A tree with a house on one side, a shed on the other and a set of powerlines above it cannot be dropped and cannot simply be picked, so it comes down in rigged sections, each one lowered onto a landing we have cleared, with the cherry picker doing the work the climber does not need to. The same discipline covers power line clearance, where the clearance envelope decides the cut before anyone gets a say in it.

The everyday list runs to tree removal large and small, stump removal with the Vermeer, and pruning and maintenance including cabling and bracing for the trees that need holding together rather than taking down. Dead wood removal gets the unsound limbs out of a canopy, hedge trimming handles anything from a garden hedge to a serious windbreak, and site risk and hazard assessments put a considered opinion on what a property is carrying before you have to find out the hard way.

We work Mt Macedon, Gisborne, Woodend, Kyneton, Sunbury, Romsey, Riddells Creek, Castlemaine and the districts around them. Nothing gets wasted: chipping and mulching happens on site and the product goes out again through our mulch sales, and we cut firewood for households and commercial customers. Ring Rowan on 0438 394 627 and we will come out and tell you what the job actually needs, machine by machine.