Zions Tree Service

Palms are their own job, and there are a lot of them up here. Zions Tree Service handles palm tree lopping and removal around Cairns, from the fronds and seed heads that come down on paths and cars through to taking a whole palm out of a courtyard it has long outgrown. Our arborists are qualified and certified, the crew is fully trained and insured, and we hold a claim free insurance record.

On the broader work, tree removal is planned around what sits underneath the tree, using rigging to bring sections down under control rather than dropping them and hoping. Tree lopping and pruning covers the trees that are staying: deadwood out, canopies lifted clear of roofs and wires, and heavy limbs reduced before the weight finds a weak union. In the tropics that is a shorter cycle than people expect, because growth here does not pause for long.

Once a tree is on the ground, stump grinding and removal takes the stump out below the surface so the ground can be mown, turfed or planted again without a hump or a hazard left in the middle of it. Left in place a stump will often keep sending up suckers, and in this climate it will do that for years, so taking it out properly is usually the cheaper end of the job rather than the optional extra it looks like on a quote.

When a storm or a cyclone comes through, our emergency tree services run a 24/7 storm response, and that is the number to ring when a tree has come down across a driveway or is leaning on something it should not be. We would rather be called at two in the morning than have somebody try to deal with a damaged tree themselves in the dark.

If you are simply unsure what a tree is doing, our tree health and maintenance advice is there for that, and it costs nothing to ask the question. Sometimes the answer is that the tree is fine and the fix is a prune rather than a removal, and you are better off hearing that from someone who has looked at it. We cover Cairns and the surrounding areas. Call (07) 4064 9207 and we will arrange a time to come and look.