Merri Tree Services

Some trees cannot be felled and cannot be reached with a machine. The answer is to take them apart from the top down: a climber goes up and every section comes out rigged and lowered rather than dropped. We are known for aerial dismantling at Merri Tree Services, and it is what turns a tree standing over a building, a road or a live asset into something we can quote with confidence.

From a base at Shepparton we operate across Victoria, South Australia and southern New South Wales, for local government, commercial, infrastructure and private clients. That covers councils managing open spaces, cyclic maintenance and hazard reduction works; power utilities and their contractors, where we carry out cyclic maintenance and auditing; civil and road infrastructure projects, where we assist with tender pricing and submissions as well as the on-site works; and private clients, schools and caravan parks.

The everyday work is pruning and removals, formative and selective pruning, tree planting, habitat creation, and mulching and green waste processing so what comes off a job has somewhere useful to go. We also run inspections and maintenance programs, which is how a council or a property manager stops finding out about a tree at the point it fails.

Our scope goes well past trees. Bushfire fuel load reduction and mitigation has to happen ahead of a season, not in the middle of one, and we do it with specialised machinery alongside slashing and land clearing. There is sensitive weed removal and herbicide application for the sites you cannot simply drive a slasher through, plus civil and excavation work, and haulage and float services to get the plant where it has to be.

Neglect, inadequate education and insufficient planning all leave their mark on natural landscapes and urban forests, which is why the consultancy side of this matters as much as the saws do. We provide reports and onsite consultancy, preliminary tree assessments, risk assessment and management proposals, construction impact assessments on trees, and pre-development tree reports, for property developers, land managers and anyone else carrying responsibility for a safe open space.

Everything is done in accordance with industry standards and best practice, backed by ongoing staff training, comprehensive safety systems, well-maintained equipment and a modern fleet of specialised plant. That is what lets the one team move from a large infrastructure contract to a residential backyard without changing how it works. We also run emergency response services for the trees that come down and cannot wait. Ring 0438 838 146 or send your enquiry through the form on the site, and we will tell you what your trees actually need.