South West Tree Services

Glen Taylor runs South West Tree Services with a Certificate III in Arboriculture and a Certificate IV in Horticulture behind him, and he is a registered user of the Quantified Tree Risk Assessment method, the internationally recognised way of weighing how likely a tree is to fail and what it would hit if it did. The climbers and tree surgeons alongside him hold horticulture and arboriculture qualifications of their own, and we carry $10,000,000 in public liability cover.

Confined space tree removal is what we are best known for around Margaret River. The crew is trained in advanced rigging, so a big tree in tight quarters comes down in controlled pieces instead of being felled into whatever gap happens to be left, and where a tree is structurally unsound we bring in a local cranage company so nothing finishes up through a roof or a fence. Tree removal out here is usually about protecting assets and meeting bushfire compliance, and a sick tree turns into a dangerous one soon enough.

Fire break and fuel hazard reduction is a legal requirement inside the Shire of Augusta Margaret River, and clearing and pruning a block so it satisfies the shire's fuel and hazard reduction policy is a job we take on every season. Land clearing is done selectively with BAL assessment compliance in mind, the trees you want kept left standing, and the waste mulched and recycled on site. We take on vine and orchard removal for the wineries around the region, whether a block is going back into vines or back to pasture.

For the trees staying put, pruning keeps the growth healthy and the shape natural, and the same skills go into view enhancement, where a crown reduction or a skirt lift opens up a river, ocean or rural outlook. If you are paving or building over the spot a tree came out of, stump grinding is worth doing, because a stump left in the ground can regrow and cause you trouble years later. Our mulch delivery holds moisture in your soil, keeps the weeds down and feeds the ground as it breaks down.

Our QTRA risk assessments cover hazard identification, public liability risk, school, park and council tree programmes, powerline and roadside trees, storm damage evaluation and retention decisions. Alongside them, environmental tree assessments take in pre development tree inventories, AS 4970 compliant protection plans, tree preservation zone calculations, construction impact assessments, vegetation condition reporting, significant tree documentation and observations of habitat value such as hollows, foraging and nesting, and those reports are written for local government submissions, planning approvals, insurance requirements and legal or dispute matters. Our patch runs from Margaret River and Cowaramup down through Karridale to Augusta, across to Molloy Island, Nannup and Bridgetown, and north to Busselton, Dunsborough and Bunbury. If a tree has come down, or it is hung up where nobody should be walking, our emergency storm damage removal is a call worth making straight away, and the quote costs you nothing either way.