Melbourne Tree Company

Melbourne Tree Company opened in 2018 and works out of Carrum Downs, covering the Mornington Peninsula and a good deal of metropolitan Melbourne besides. Russell runs it and turns up in the customer reviews by name, usually for talking people through what a tree actually needs before quoting. The site puts more than 18 years of hands-on experience behind the business, which predates the company itself. The crew are qualified arborists and the business is fully insured.

Tree removal and tree clearing are the main game, dealing with hazardous or intrusive trees at homes and on commercial sites, and clearing ground ahead of landscaping or a build. Quotes are free and carry no obligation, and they will come out for a consultation at a time that suits rather than pricing a job blind over the phone. The clean-up is the thing customers keep raising in the Google reviews on the site: debris carted off and the property left tidy at the end of a big job, which is not a given in this trade. One reviewer makes a point of the advice being pitched at what the tree needed rather than what would bill the most.

Tree pruning is offered as precision work on established trees, and there is a dedicated ornamental pear pruning service, specific enough to Melbourne gardens and nature strips to be worth naming on its own. Tree cabling and bracing props up a tree with a structural weakness instead of taking it out. Tree maintenance can be booked as a one-off or set up as an ongoing arrangement across a property.

Stump grinding clears out what a removal leaves behind. Emergency tree removal sits at the other end of the business, with the phones listed as open 24 hours, seven days a week. For urgent work and large-scale projects the team will travel past the metropolitan area into regional Victoria.

Commercial work covers businesses, property managers and construction sites, with the crew carrying White Card and Working with Children checks so they can be sent onto a site without hold-ups. Service pages cover Surrey Hills, Camberwell, Malvern, Bentleigh, Bayside, Ferntree Gully, Dandenong, Frankston, Carrum Downs, Mt Eliza and the Mornington Peninsula, with the reach described as running from Melbourne CBD and Bayside out to Warrandyte and down the peninsula through Mornington and Seaford. The number is 1300 192 599.