Melbourne Tree Specialists

A limb splitting over a driveway doesn't always have to come off. Cable bracing puts flexible cables or rods between the major branches to redistribute the weight and cut the movement, so the union holds through high winds and storms. The systems we install are non-invasive, using straps or sleeves around the branch rather than bolts through it, which lets the tree keep growing normally. In Melbourne conditions a good one lasts 8 to 12 years, and we inspect annually or every second year, and after any severe weather, so the hardware never gets swallowed by the tree and left to rot it from the inside.

That is the sort of call we get asked to make. There are nine of us working as Melbourne Tree Specialists out of the yard at Narre Warren: Lyle Galea as Director and qualified arborist, Robert MacDonald as Senior Estimator and Operations Manager, Dylan Binzer and Ethan Nye as site foremen, Ethan with his Cert III in Arboriculture, Ross Wolvey heading up the climbing with Rodney Mongta alongside him, and Krystopher Teaka, Brodie Batchelor and Netane Tuiono on the ground and the machines. There's over 20 years of industry experience behind the operation, we hold the accreditations and licences the work calls for, and we're fully insured.

Jobs run from one dead gum in a back garden through to land clearing that takes a whole site back to bare ground for a build or a subdivision. We comply with the local council legislation, regulations and guidelines that apply to the particular tree in front of us, so a protected specimen gets dealt with properly before anyone starts. On a tight access job, where the tree has to leave in pieces and there's a fence, a pool or a powerline inside its reach, the current industry tools and proven technique are what get it out without incident.

For the trees staying put, tree pruning covers deadwooding, canopy reduction and the shaping that keeps a tree in proportion to the garden around it. Habitat pruning preserves the hollows and perches that make an old tree worth something to whatever is living in it. We write arborist reports when a council, an insurer or a buyer needs the condition of a tree set down on paper, and everything that comes off a job goes through tree debris processing on the way out. Ongoing tree maintenance works suit owners and property managers who'd rather have the same crew back each year.

Our work covers Melbourne's eastern and south eastern suburbs, residential and commercial, taking in Berwick, Belgrave, Blackburn, Doncaster East, Glen Waverley, Mitcham and Surrey Hills. The phone is answered 24 hours a day, every day of the year. After 5pm, send an SMS and we'll get an emergency crew moving on it. Otherwise, book an on-site quote through the form or over the phone and the assessment costs you nothing.