Who Actually Turns Up When You Ring

What this site is

Tree Loppers and Tree Removal Fremantle is a lead referral website covering Fremantle, East Fremantle and the surrounding City of Melville and City of Cockburn suburbs. The job of the site is narrow and worth stating plainly: it answers the questions people ask before they book a tree job, and it puts them in touch with a contractor who can actually do the work.

Enquiries made here - by phone on 08 7741 1934 or through the quote form - go to Emerald Tree Works, an independent tree services contractor. Emerald quote the job, carry out the work, and hold the insurance and the responsibility for it. They are a separate business. We are not their employer, we are not on site, and we do not supervise what happens once a crew arrives at your gate.

What this site is not

It is not the operator, and it does not pretend to be. That has some practical consequences you are entitled to know about.

• No claims are made here about years in business, fleet size, or how many trees have come down. Those are the contractor's facts to state, not ours.
• No arborist qualification is claimed on this site. If a job needs a report for a council application, a development site or a neighbour dispute, ask the contractor directly what qualification the person writing it holds.
• No insurance certificate is held or verified by us. Ask to see the current public liability and workers compensation certificates before work starts, and read the cover amount rather than the logo.
• No reviews, ratings or testimonials are published here. Anything that cannot be sourced and dated is not going on the page, and a rank of five stars with no verifiable origin is worth nothing to you anyway.
• No prices are quoted as fixed. What moves a tree quote in Fremantle is covered honestly in the cost guide, and palms are covered separately in the palm removal cost guide, but a real number needs someone standing in your yard looking at the access.

Why this approach

Most tree work in Fremantle goes wrong in the same two ways. Someone books the cheapest quote without asking what insurance sits behind it, then finds out what that means when a limb goes through a colorbond fence or a neighbour's roof. Or someone has a tree taken out that the City of Fremantle or the Town of East Fremantle had registered as significant, and the penalty lands after the tree is already firewood.

Both are avoidable by asking three or four questions in the right order. That is most of what the writing on this site is for: the permits page explains when council approval matters, the arborist page explains when a report is the right first step rather than a quote, and the FAQ covers the rest.

The local ground we write about

The advice here is written for this particular strip of coast, not copied from somewhere else. Fremantle's Tamala limestone and shallow sand change how root plates spread and how deep a stump grinder can realistically get. The afternoon sea breeze is why so much local pruning is wind-sail reduction. The limestone cottages on narrow lots with rear laneways are why access, not trunk size, usually decides what a removal costs. And the Cocos, Canary Island date and Washingtonia palms planted through these suburbs in the eighties are why palm work is a trade of its own rather than a variation on tree felling.

If something written here turns out to be wrong, it gets corrected. If you want to talk to somebody about a tree, the contact page sets out what to have ready so the callback is useful rather than a game of twenty questions.