Northern Arbor Care

The call usually comes when something has changed. A limb has come down in the night, a branch has grown out over the roofline, or the council has asked for a report before anything else can happen. Northern Arbor Care is a family owned business founded in the heart of the north and run by a fully certified climbing arborist, and we take those calls 24 hours a day for storm damaged and hazardous trees. We carry $20 million in insurance, hold a high risk work licence, run late model machinery, and put every crew member in full PPE with OHS and skills training kept current.

The suburbs we work are the inner and near north: Brunswick and Brunswick West, Coburg and Coburg North, Pascoe Vale and Pascoe Vale South, Glenroy, Oak Park, Essendon, Moonee Ponds, Strathmore and out as far as Eltham. On blocks like these a tree removal is seldom a matter of dropping anything. The tree comes down in sections and every piece gets rigged out over a fence or a roofline, and stump grinding follows to take out what stays in the ground.

Where we will not bend is on the pruning. Every cut follows AS 4373-2007, the Australian standard for the pruning of amenity trees, and we use target pruning so the wound sits where the tree's own defence system can seal it, at a lateral growth point that will carry the branch on. That is the whole difference between tree pruning and what gets called lopping. Poor cuts permanently damage a tree's structure and shorten its life, and topping leaves you with unstable regrowth and a shape the tree never gets back, while a proper crown reduction holds the natural form. Our crew know the species you actually find on these streets, the acacias, the eucalypts and the syzygiums, and how each one answers being cut.

Tree lopping and trimming is there for trees that need reducing without coming out, and hedge trimming keeps boundary and screening work in order. Ongoing tree maintenance suits anyone who would sooner manage a tree year on year than deal with it once it becomes a problem, and mulching puts the chip straight back into your own garden beds. Arborist reports are written for council permits and for the questions that come up over a boundary tree or ahead of a build. Ninety five Google reviews sit behind us. Quotes online cost nothing, an on site inspection carries a $99 call out fee, and we waive that fee in full the moment you accept the job. Ring 0434 058 364 and tell us what you are looking at.