Your Local Arborist

Your Local Arborist, or YLA, is a certified tree care business working across Sydney and greater New South Wales, with more than 15 years of hands-on industry experience behind it. It runs as a mobile crew based in Sydney, NSW rather than out of a shopfront, travelling to jobs right across the metropolitan councils. The company puts its vision plainly on its own about page: to protect and maintain the natural beauty of the local environment through safe, sustainable and expert tree care.

The bread and butter is tree removal. The crew takes on anything from a single dangerous gum leaning over a roofline through to full land clearing ahead of a build. Tree pruning and deadwooding cover the ongoing side of the work: thinning a canopy that has got away from its owner, lifting limbs off gutters, and stripping out dead wood before it drops on something. Once a tree is on the ground, stump grinding finishes the job so the space can be turfed or replanted instead of left with a trip hazard sitting in it.

A few of the services on YLA's list are ones most tree firms do not bother advertising. Palm tree maintenance is handled separately, as palms need a different approach to hardwoods, and hedging services keep boundary screens in shape between the bigger jobs. The team also does drone recovery and animal rescue, which is to say they will climb for a stuck drone or a cat as readily as for a branch. Arborist reports are available where an owner needs a qualified written assessment, and there is free mulch delivery for anyone happy to take the chip that comes off a job. Tree accessories round out the list.

The qualifications are set out on the site: AQF Level 3 Arborist accreditation, ISA certification, and tickets covering chainsaw operation, working at heights, powerline awareness and first aid. Cover runs to 20 million dollars of public liability insurance alongside workers compensation. YLA advertises a 24 by 7 emergency callout on the same number it uses for quotes, so storm damage, a split trunk or a limb across a driveway can be dealt with outside business hours rather than waiting until Monday. Emergency tree services are listed as a service in their own right, not an afterthought.

Coverage is broad. The areas page names more than thirty Sydney councils, among them City of Sydney, Inner West, Canterbury-Bankstown, Parramatta, Blacktown, Penrith, The Hills Shire, Hornsby, Ku-ring-gai, Northern Beaches, North Sydney, Willoughby, Mosman, Woollahra, Waverley, Randwick, Bayside, Georges River, Sutherland Shire, Liverpool, Fairfield, Cumberland, Camden, Campbelltown, Blue Mountains, Hawkesbury, Wollondilly, Ryde, Lane Cove, Hunters Hill, Strathfield, Burwood and Canada Bay. Work extends beyond the metropolitan area into greater New South Wales as well.