Steve Wilson Tree Services

Steve Wilson Tree Services is Steve Wilson, and he is upfront about it: "I am hands on in every job and personally do all the climbing, pruning, trimming and organisation of qualified, professional trades people needed for the job." He has more than 18 years of local experience behind him, works as a qualified arborist holding a certificate in horticulture, and the business is fully insured. Anyone ringing about a job is dealing with the bloke who will be up the tree.

Full tree removal is the headline service, and the machinery behind it is not modest: crane, bobcat, excavator and chipper, brought in according to what the job actually calls for rather than what is sitting in the yard. Stump grinding deals with what gets left in the ground afterwards. Land and block clearing steps it up again for whole sites, the sort of work a bush block needs before anything can be built on it.

The tree care side is where the horticulture qualification earns its keep. Steve takes on borers, white ant, root rot, die back, decay, dropping limbs and fertilisation, which is to say the problems that turn up well before a tree ever needs removing. If a tree can be brought back to health rather than cut down, that is put on the table as a genuine option instead of a courtesy.

Tree surgery and trimming and pruning cover the ongoing maintenance: shaping a tree, taking weight out of limbs that are carrying too much, and keeping growth in check before it becomes somebody's problem. Mulching handles the material that comes off, so what is cut down gets processed on site rather than carted away whole.

Emergency tree service runs around the clock, in the site's own words "available 24 hours for emergency calls". On this stretch of coast that mostly means storm work: trees that have come down across a driveway, or worse, ones left hanging and waiting. The service area runs from Milton and Ulladulla through Mollymook, Narrawallee, Lake Conjola, Fishermans Paradise, Bendalong and Manyana, then south through Kings Point, Burrill Lake, Dolphin Point, Lake Tabourie, Bawley Point and Kioloa.