Jacqui Tate — 15 years in tree services across Cardinia Shire.
The principal who quotes your job, runs the crew, and answers his own phone after hours. Qualified arborist (AQF Level 3+).
How Cardinia Tree Services actually works.
The crew on a Cardinia Shire tree services job is the same crew that quoted it — Jacqui (the principal, 15 years on the tools), plus two-to-four hands who have been with the business between three and nine years. We don't sub work out to a chasing-cheap labour-hire mob, we don't have a roster of itinerant fly-in workers, and we don't put apprentices on a job without a registered tradesperson actively supervising. The continuity is the work.
The Cardinia Shire side of it.
Cardinia Shire is not a market we read about; it's the market we live in. Jacqui is a Surf Lifesaving patrol captain — the kind of detail that doesn't fit on a quote but does explain why the crew is on time, why the price doesn't drift, and why we'd rather pass a job to a mate than do work in a suburb we don't know. Every quote we issue is from someone you can put a face to.
Credentials & memberships.
- Qualified arborist (AQF Level 3+)
- AS 4373 compliant
- Public liability + workmanship insurance current; certificates available on request.
- Written, fixed-price quotes (no "from $X" range pricing).
- Same-person quoting and supervision — not a call-centre handoff.
What makes a Cardinia Tree Services job different.
One person, start to finish.
Jacqui quotes the job and runs the crew that does the job. There is no handover, no junior estimator who lowballs the quote then upcharges on the day, and no third-party project manager who hasn't been on a job site in five years. If you ring at 7pm on a Wednesday, you get the person who's going to be on your property on Monday morning.
Written, fixed-price quotes.
Every quote we issue is all-inclusive — site assessment, weather risk, access risk, permit work if relevant. No "from $X" range pricing, no day-of-build surprise variations, no mid-job upsell. If a surprise lands on the dig that we did not allow for, it's our cost, not yours.
A crew that stays the same.
The Cardinia Shire crew is the same five people it has been for four years. We don't sub work out to chase-cheap labour-hire crews, we don't put apprentices on a job without a registered tradesperson actively supervising, and we don't run a roster of fly-in workers. Continuity is what makes the work hold up at the 10-year mark.
Talk to Jacqui directly.
Quotes are free, fixed-price and same-person. Phones go to Jacqui between 7am and 7pm; after hours leave a message and we'll call back the next morning.