TreeCare Professionals

A tree hard against a house with a laneway on one side and a shed on the other cannot be dropped, so it has to come apart. That is the skill David Munro spent years in the Sydney market honing: removal and trimming in confined spaces, where the careful lowering of every branch is the whole job. He is a Cert III certified arborist with twenty one years in the industry and he leads the crew on site at TreeCare Professionals.

The business is family owned and run out of Robertson, covering the Southern Highlands and the Illawarra: Bowral, Berrima, Burrawang, Bundanoon, Kangaloon, Mittagong, Moss Vale, Exeter, Sutton Forest and Wildes Meadow, then down the hill to Kiama, Albion Park and Oak Flats. David's father Grant is the other director, a Robertson local with forty years in finance and twenty as owner and manager of the family farm, and he runs the financial side. Our crew are local as well.

How a tree removal actually gets done depends on what we can get near it. The climbers work on ropes and pulleys so every section is lowered rather than dropped, which keeps it off the garden beds and the shed roof. Where access is easy the truck and chipper sit close and the material goes straight through. Where it is not, we shift it with a loader or carry it out by hand, and the heavier sections come out under a crane. Stump grinding finishes it, and the site gets cleaned down to the leaves and the small branches before we leave.

Contemplating the removal of a tree can be an emotional experience, so we look for a way to save it first and only put removal forward where it is genuinely justified. Tree maintenance is frequently the better answer. Trimming and pruning out the dead, diseased, hazardous and overgrown limbs keeps a tree healthy and safe, and it heads off the disease and insect attack that follow a neglected wound. We take on fence line clearing too, and whatever the job we cut back only what has to come off, with an eye on the shape the tree is left in.

Storm damage is a job of its own kind. The fallen trees and debris have to be cleared, but the trees still standing usually need remedial work as well, because the exposed parts of a damaged tree are an open door to disease and insect attack. We assess what has been left, carry out the remedial pruning and get the property back in order. Storms are unpredictable and costly, so a tree you are already worried about is worth a phone call before the next one arrives.

Our hours are Monday to Friday from eight in the morning to six at night, and quotes are free. Ring the number and you are talking to one of the owners, not a call centre. Tell us what the tree is doing, and David will listen, go through the options with you, and put together a work plan that suits the tree, your property and your budget.