Proarb WA

A tree across the driveway at midnight is a job we will take. Proarb WA runs a 24/7 emergency service across Perth and the surrounds, for storm damaged and fallen trees, lifted footplates, trees that have been hit by a vehicle or come down onto one, and anything blocking access for the emergency services. Call out charges apply where a consultant or a crew is mobilised at your request, and we will tell you that before we roll.

Russell Hawkins and Chris Jones set the business up in 2021, having managed another company together first, and between them they hold more than 30 years in arboriculture. Russell carries a Cert Arb from the Royal Forestry Society, a BTEC National Certificate in Forestry and Arboriculture, an ABC Certificate in Arboriculture, an NPTC National Certificate in Horticulture, and LANTRA Risk Assessment for Commercial Arboriculture. Chris came up through the NPTC City and Guilds route in utility arboriculture, aerial rigging, aerial rescue, chainsaw operations and pruning, and is trained on the Cobra bracing system. Anthony Biluba runs a crew with more than seven years in the industry and an Australian Certificate III in Arboriculture, Lucas Burt has come off his apprenticeship as a certified arborist, and Danielle Anderson keeps the office moving.

On the ground, tree surgery is the climbing and the cutting: taking a tree down in sections, bringing a canopy back in, or getting weight off the limb that has grown out over the roof. Hedging keeps a boundary where it belongs, and stump grinding clears out what is left behind. We are fully insured and Western Power certified, which is what allows us to do power line clearance around live infrastructure. There is also root management for roots that have found a drain or a footing, pest and disease management, and tree planting when the answer is a replacement rather than a removal.

Russell looks after our consultancy work as a QTRA licensed consultant. That covers Quantified Tree Risk Assessment, safety inspections, tree inventories, arboricultural reports, tree impact assessments and pest and disease diagnoses. It is the paperwork councils, strata committees and developers ask for when a tree needs a documented opinion standing behind it.

We work across Perth from the coast to the hills, and we sell mulch and logs off the jobs we take out. Ring the office or send us an email with what the tree is doing and where it is, and we will get out and quote it for you.