Redback Tree Services

Redback Tree Services works out of three yards, the main one on Lower Dandenong Road at Dingley Village, with offices at Ormond and Greensborough. The business has been going 15 years and puts its completed job count past 2,700, which for a tree company is a fair measure of how much has actually gone through the chipper. Climbers are AQF qualified arborists, and the business holds membership with Arboriculture Australia, the International Society of Arboriculture and Tree Project.

Tree removal, cutting and lopping is the core, backed by tree trimming and pruning that is broken into the actual techniques rather than sold as one thing: crown thinning, crown reduction, deadwooding and structural pruning. Stump removal and grinding deals with what is left in the ground. Palm tree removal and yucca tree removal get their own service pages, which is sensible in bayside Melbourne where both were planted heavily and both are awkward to take out cleanly.

Emergency tree removal runs 24/7 across Melbourne. Powerline clearance is offered for growth that has reached the wires, and the crew works with professional rigging and specialist machinery, wood chippers and stump grinders included, on tight suburban blocks where there is no room to drop anything whole.

The paperwork side covers arborist reports, permits and council permit advice, and this is where the local knowledge counts. Redback works with 14 Melbourne councils, among them Bayside, Kingston, Stonnington, Boroondara, Monash, Whitehorse, Maroondah, Knox, Manningham, Banyule, Yarra, Casey, Port Phillip and Mornington Peninsula. Every job runs through a hazard identification process with SWMS documentation before anyone starts cutting, and the company carries $20 million in public liability cover. The stated approach is honest advice and no upselling.

The strongest coverage is through Bayside and Kingston, taking in Brighton, Hampton, Sandringham, Black Rock, Beaumaris, Cheltenham, Bentleigh, Ormond, Moorabbin, Highett, Mentone, Parkdale, Mordialloc, Aspendale, Braeside, Heatherton and Dingley Village. Work also runs inner city through South Melbourne, St Kilda and Prahran, and east and north to Glen Waverley, Clayton, Ringwood, Templestowe, Keysborough and Greensborough. The office is open Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.