Melbourne's favourite tree service
Total Tree Care (Australia) Pty Ltd
3/243 Governor Rd Braeside Vic 3195
Email us here
Phone: 1800 000 451
Pruning for Safety
Are your trees important to you but you, are concerned about the risk of falling branches?
Adjacent a mature Pin Oak (Quercus palustris) undergoes Crown Reduction Pruning by 2 Total Tree Care Arborists.
All too often large mature trees that add great value to a home and garden are removed unnecessarily. In most cases the risk of branch failure in trees can be greatly reduced.
Your Arborist from Total Tree Care will identify any potential hazards in your trees and then recommend the most suitable pruning techniques to reduce the risk. Or if pruning can't solve the problem, then we will recommend removal. You should at least have the option!
Some examples of pruning for safety are:
- Weight Reduction Pruning: whereby reducing the end weight of major lateral branches you greatly decrease the load placed on the branch and the leverage forces at the point of attachment.
- Crown Reduction Pruning: involving the reduction of the height and spread of the entire tree. This is also useful if you just feel that your tree is outgrowing its position in your garden.
General Pruning
- Do you have branches that hang over your
house filling your gutters with debris? 
Low branches that obstruct the footpath, driveway or garden path?- Are branches rubbing on your electricity or phone wires?
Our team of pruning experts can solve all these problems. Maybe it's to improve appearance or shape and clean out deadwood. If increased light in your garden or around your home is desired, thinning of the canopy might be the solution for you.
Whatever your needs, take comfort in knowing your trees will be pruned by Qualified Arborists who really do care about your trees.
Right:- Our Arborists will go out on a limb for you to do the job right!
Tree Removal
- Why remove a tree?
Just like us, trees have a life span. They age, they decline in health and eventually they die. They also have what we call a Safe Useful Life Expectancy.
Adjacent a crane is used to safely lift a large log that was leaning over the shed.
In the urban environment a tree may develop a structural weakness and/or decline to a point where it no longer provides any great visual benefit. It's at this point that we say a tree has exceeded its Safe Useful Life Expectancy. If the problems can't be rectified with pruning or other tree care techniques removal may be necessary.
Other reasons for removal may be as simple as the wrong tree in the wrong spot. A tree may interfere with your plans to extend your home or develop a property.
Right:- A friction device is used to safely lower a large log to the ground.
When tree removal is the most appropriate option our professional climbers can dismantle the largest of trees in a safe and efficient manner. Using the latest techniques in mobile rigging systems or even using cranes if need be, our team will do whatever it takes to complete the job without causing damage to your home or garden.
Your garden will be left so clean and tidy that you won't know we've been there. In fact, the feedback from our customers is that often we leave it cleaner than it was before we came!
Stump Removal
Tree removal isn't really complete until the stump is removed.
Our stump grinders will turn your tree stumps into useful mulch.
If a stump is left it may re-grow or it may rot, attracting decay causing fungus to your garden.
Our range of purpose built stump grinding machines will turn your ugly tree stumps into mulch, so you can replant, re-turf or even build over that very place.
We will use the right size machine for the job, so you're guaranteed the most thorough stump removal results whether it's a huge stump in an open space or a small one in your courtyard through the side gate.
Right:- A close up of the cutter wheel in action.
If you would like more information on tree pruning and removal email us here or phone: 1800 000 451