The family business behind the saw

Four generations, one trade

Anthony's grandfather cut down trees. So did his father. Before them, the family was dropping timber in the 1800s with axes and crosscut saws, back when the only safety equipment was knowing exactly where to stand. That knowledge did not come out of a textbook. It got handed down at the base of a tree, one job at a time.

Anthony grew up in it. He watched his father read a lean, set a rope and take the weight out of a limb before it had a chance to run. By the time he was old enough to run a saw himself, he had already seen most of what a tree can do wrong.

Every cut is a wound. If you cannot tell me why you are making it, do not make it. How Anthony was taught, and how he still works

A climbing arborist, which means hands on

Anthony is a specialist climbing arborist. In plain terms: he is the one who puts the harness on and goes up. Not the bloke who quotes your job and sends someone else. Not the bloke standing on the lawn with a clipboard pointing at things.

That matters more than it sounds. A tree tells you things up close that you cannot see from the ground. Where the decay actually runs. Whether that union is holding or just looks like it is. How much the top is really moving. The person deciding what happens to your tree should be the person who has had their hands on it.

It also means the quote and the job are the same thing. Anthony prices it, Anthony climbs it, and there is nobody in between for the detail to fall through.

That matters in Townsville. Plenty of trees get removed here that never needed to come out, and plenty get left standing that should have come out two wet seasons ago. Getting that call right is the whole job.

30+ years in Townsville

TreeX has been operating for over 30 years out of Aitkenvale, working across Townsville, Thuringowa, Magnetic Island and the surrounding region. We work on everything from a single overgrown mango tree in a backyard to storm response for body corporates and commercial sites.

North Queensland is hard on trees and hard on the people who look after them. Big wet seasons, cyclones, poinciana and African mahogany with limbs the size of most southern trees, and soil that goes from concrete to soup in a fortnight. We have worked through enough of it to know what fails and when.

Why TreeX

• Anthony quotes the job, and Anthony is the one up the tree doing it
• Fixed written prices, not a range that moves once the saw starts
• Fully insured, including public liability, with certificates available on request
• Pruning to Australian Standard AS 4373, not a haircut
• 24 hour callouts through storm and cyclone season
• We clean up properly, because the mess is half of what you are paying for

What Anthony is working towards

Ask Anthony what he wants to do next and he will not talk about trucks. He wants to get into the virgin forests of Indonesia and work timber that has never had a saw near it, and he wants to build a church. That is the plan. In the meantime, there is a poinciana in Aitkenvale with a limb over a carport, and that comes first.