Sapphire Coast Tree Service & Tower Hire

Sapphire Coast Tree Service & Tower Hire has been operating for 22 years out of South Pambula, with depots at Queanbeyan and Cooma supporting a service area that runs from Goulburn down to the Victorian border and across the ACT. The accreditations stack up: TCAA NSW accreditation as qualified tree management professionals, RMS accreditation, pre-approval by the ACT government, and ISO 9001 certification held since 2008.

The company describes itself as complete recyclists and qualified tree surgeons, with climbers on the books for tree removal in confined spaces where a machine cannot reach. Tree surgery and stump grinding cover the domestic end. At the other end sit vegetation management, roadside clearing and forestry mulching, the sort of contract work that comes with an RMS accreditation attached, and the business provides its own traffic control rather than subcontracting it out. Tree reports are available where an assessment needs to be in writing.

The tower hire half of the name is a business in its own right. EWP hire runs from 9 metres up to 24 metres, available with an operator, and the machines are held to RTA, WorkCover, AS2550.10 and AS1418.10 standards with regular WorkCover inspections. Every EWP carries current certification and is electrically tested, which is what makes them usable near live lines. Servicing is done in the company's own workshops by qualified diesel technicians.

All the plant is owned rather than leased and none of it is more than five years old, which is a deliberate position for a contractor working remote South Coast and Monaro jobs where a breakdown means a wasted day. Alongside the tree work there is equipment hire and equipment sales, plus wood chipping on site and firewood sold from the yard.

Staff retention is the measure the company points to, with many employees past ten years of service. The office is open 8:30am to 4:30pm Monday to Friday on 02 6299 1879, with the Snowy Monaro end reachable on 0407 075 339. The main yard is at South Pambula, NSW, near Merimbula, covering the Sapphire Coast, the Bega Valley and inland to the Monaro.