Manna Mob Tree Care

Manna Mob Tree Care, which also trades as MM Tree Care, covers the south eastern suburbs of Melbourne and the Dandenong Ranges. Sean Stagar is the man behind it, and the site puts more than 20 years of combined experience behind the team. The business is verified on hipages, where it carries a 4.8 rating from 83 ratings across 141 hires, which is a firmer signal than most of what a tree website says about itself.

Tree removal is done in sections rather than felled whole, with the branches chipped into mulch on site or loaded out. If you want the timber, say so up front and they will cut it into manageable lengths, and the mulch is yours too. Stump grinding is a separate line: the standard finish trims a stump down to a small footprint, while grinding it out properly takes the machine roughly 30cm down and backfills the hole with the mulch it makes.

Tree pruning and trimming covers both health and structure, and the FAQ puts most trees on a three to five year cycle depending on species and condition. Hazard and safety assessments are carried out by certified arborists, which is the step before anyone decides whether a tree is dead, diseased or damaged enough to warrant coming out.

Storm damage tree removal is the urgent side of the business. They advertise rapid response during storm events, clearing fallen trunks and scattered debris, taking out trees hit badly enough that they are likely to come down anyway, and running property safety checks afterwards for hanging limbs and weakened trees. Anything blocking a driveway or sitting on a roof is a call-out they will take.

Two services turn up here that you do not usually find on a tree crew's list: gutter cleaning, and firewood pickup and mulch delivery, with firewood sold out of Dandenong. The work spans nine council areas, Frankston, Kingston, Casey, Cardinia Shire, Greater Dandenong, Monash, Knox, Yarra Ranges and Maroondah, taking in Berwick, Cranbourne, Pakenham, Glen Waverley, Rowville, Belgrave, Ringwood and Croydon among plenty of others. Quotes are free and done onsite, and the site advertises a price match. Ask for Sean on 0466 048 844.