Smith Tree Solutions

Storms do not keep office hours, so ours start at six in the morning through the week and seven on the weekend, and run until six and four respectively. When a limb has come through a fence, a tree is sitting on a roof or something is hung up in the branches above your driveway, that is the call our emergency crew answers. We take on the insurance tree work that follows as well and deal with the insurer alongside you, so the storm is one problem to sort out and not two.

We run Smith Tree Solutions out of Southside on the edge of Gympie, and the run takes in The Dawn, Veteran, Glanmire, Chatsworth, Two Mile, Monkland, Pie Creek, Jones Hill, Nahrunda and Widgee Crossing North and South, then south to the Sunshine Coast.

Jeriah Smith is the qualified arborist and horticulturalist who runs the business, with more than 15 years in the industry and a stretch of it in Papua New Guinea doing tree work for electricity and rail contractors. That is a long way from a Gympie back yard, and it is where you learn to work around infrastructure that cannot be shut down while you cut. The crew alongside him are qualified arborists and horticulturalists with their climbing and safety tickets, and the business carries $20 million in liability insurance.

On a suburban block some trees can come out whole and some have to come down piece by piece because there is nothing underneath that would survive a drop, and our tree removal work covers both. Where a canopy only needs bringing back off a roof or a fence line, tree lopping and tree pruning do the job, and general tree maintenance tidies up the light pruning and loose branches when a yard has got away over a season. The stump goes out with stump grinding, and what we cut goes through the chipper for wood chipping and mulching, with a mulch delivery available if you want a load for the garden beds. If you want to know where a tree stands before you commit to anything, we will come and do a tree assessment on its condition, structure and risk.

The excavators are what make the bigger jobs possible. Ours are fitted with a grab, so they get into difficult and tight access areas, pick up what has been cut and feed it straight through for mulching. That is what a block clear or a full site clearing needs when a property is being readied for building or for sale and the trees, the scrub and the debris all have to go. Quotes are free and there is no obligation on them. Ring Jeriah and we will walk the job with you first, which is the moment to point out the irrigation lines and anything else buried out there, and then you get a price.