Welcome to Hills Landscaping

We would love to meet you and discuss your needs

Trust us with all your landscaping needs in St Ives

Regardless of your needs, you can trust us to deliver them promptly, efficiently, and conveniently. Give us a call now!

More than just cutting down trees

We don’t just cut down trees; Hills Landscaping offers a full range of tree maintenance and plants management services such as; tree pruning, vegetation management along roadways and rail passages, powerline clearing, mowing, slashing, premises maintenance and root barrier installation.

Servicing North Turramurra, Pymble, St Ives Chase, Turramurra, East Killara, Gordon, Warrawee, Davidson, Killara, Wahroonga

To provide these services in a significantly advanced industry, the Hills Landscaping approach is simple: Integrate extremely trained specialists with a contemporary fleet of specialized plant and equipment supported by rigorous interactive management systems to deliver high quality services for our clients.

Continuous collaborations with our customer base of government, utilities, road and rail operators and facility managers is our objective and we have been accomplishing this since 1992.

The ideal active ingredients for success

Our team: With over 70 extremely proficient workers and subcontractors trained in the latest industry standards and best practices, you know your task is in capable hands.

Specialized equipment: From insulated elevating work platforms to whole tree chippers, four wheel drive stump grinders to purpose built crane trucks and ride on lawn mowers to root cutters, our extensive fleet of specialized plant and equipment means we have the resources to complete even the largest and most intricate jobs.

Systems with the client in mind!: Imagine having a window into your contractors’ business; being able to access quotes and invoices, accept and track jobs and perform desk top audits at a time that fits you from the convenience of your workplace. With Hills Landscaping’s innovative systems we provide just that!

All of this supported by our advanced quality, OH&S; and environmental management system developed to deliver client focused services with a risk management approach to safety and environmental problems to ensure that your direct exposure to risk is well handled.

Providing you assurance

Whilst our team comply with advanced risk management processes we still maintain various insurance policies for those unanticipated incidents to ensure sufficient protection of ourselves and our customer.

Playing an active role in the Arboriculture industry

Hills Landscaping is dedicated to maintaining the greatest arboriculture standards.

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Hills Landscaping plays an active role in the industry through our memberships, sponsorships and management of numerous industry organisations.

We have fulfilled the stringent subscription requirements set by some of these organisations and this is just another way our clients can be guaranteed of our dependability, competence and safety.

At Hills Landscaping we believe that our team need a consistent, organised risk management approach to deliver excellent outcomes. Our systems deliver all of this and so much more.

As a valued client we will provide you with your own secure login to access our interactive web enabled operating system through any web web browser. It’s convenient, simple and allows greater capability to track and handle your job.

Hills Landscaping’s integrated management system has attained third party accreditation from SAI Global Assurance Services as fulfilling the requirements of

• ISO 9001:2000 quality

• AS 4801:2001 occupational health and safety

• ISO 14001:2004 environmental management

Our Services

• Tree Maintenance

Tree pruning or elimination either individually, in groups or as part of a program; stump grinding, root pruning and root barrier installation.

Our certified and experienced arborists together with our fleet of specialized plant and equipment will prune or remove your tree/s in accordance with Australian Basic AS 4373-2007 Pruning Amenity Trees, Workcover Tree Work Code of Practice and WorkCover Work Near Overhead Powerlines Code of Practice.

We have licensed dogmen, crane and elevated work platform operators to eliminate large trees in hard positions. All tree waste is processed into multiple-use leaf mulch using our fleet of wood chippers.

Our variety of stump grinders| means we can easily eliminate large hard stumps from sites with restricted access. We likewise have root cutters and personnel experienced with the installation of root barriers.

• Powerline Vegetation Clearing

Pruning and removing trees to maintain clearances to overhead powerlines and electrical facilities

We can look after all of your powerline vegetation  clearing requirements with our insulated elevating work platforms that satisfy the requirements of AS 1418.10, purpose built tip trucks and wood chippers and ground line slashing equipment combined with our certified and experienced CATT (close approach tree trimming) personnel authorized by Energy Australia and Rail Corporation NSW.

Contact us today to learn more about our services or to get a quote.

• Grounds Upkeep Solutions

Mowing, slashing and generalproperty maintenance activities

Our fleet of specialised plant and equipment includes flail and commercial lawn mowers. Whether it be ground line slashing under powerlines, clearing around poles or substations, easement clearing or grounds mowing we have the ideal equipment and trained workers for the application.

• Vegetation Management

Managing vegetation along roadways, electrical easements and rail passages utilising a range of techniques

Vegetation management along roadways, fire trails and rail passages is our specialty. With our specialised elevating work platforms, crane trucks, hi-rail tip trucks and wood chippers and our team of extremely knowledgeable arborists and industrial rope access professionals, we have the expertise and resources to complete even the most intricate jobs.

Keep In Mind: Industrial Rope Access is a safe system of work for hard access sites such as cliff faces, rock cuttings along road & rail passages, structures, dams and bridges.

Contact us today to learn more about our services or to get a quote.

• 24 Hour Emergency Service

We are dedicated to offering 24 Hour Emergency Assistance to our clients. That means you can call our emergency number, at any time of the day, any day of the year and be guaranteed quick, efficient and reliable reaction from one of our devoted Area Managers who will dispatch a team of extremely proficient specialists to address your emergency.

• Arborist Consulting and Reports

Hills Landscaping has developed strategic alliances with a number of consulting arborists throughout our service area for the benefit of our clients.

Our Devices

We have a range of equipment to assist us in our day-to-day activities consisting of;

1. Elevated Work Platforms

Our fleet of insulated and electrically checked elevating work platforms (EWP) is particularly developed for close approach tree trimming (CATT) around live electrical facilities.

Tree maintenance and elimination in the metropolitan environment requires operators to continually work around overhead electrical facilities and with our specialised equipment we perform this work in the safest possible way. To further ensure the safe functioning of our equipment, electrical testing of all EWP is carried out on a 6 monthly basis. All EWP satisfy the requirements of Australian Basic AS/NZS 1418.10-2004 Cranes, Hoists and Winches Part 10 Elevating Work Platforms.

2. Insulated Devices

All EWP are geared up with insulated electrically checked hydraulic long reach chainsaws and pulling sticks particularly developed for close approach tree trimming, (CATT) around live electrical facilities.

Ride On Lawn mowers

With our fleet of ride on lawn mowers, our team makes carrying out your grounds maintenance simple, quick and safe. All our ride on lawn mowers are fitted with ROPS, o% grade capability low emissions etc.

3. Crane Trucks

Crane trucks provide greater efficiency and improved safety in removing trees.

With their capability to lift large loads and therefore lowering our teams’ direct exposure to manual handling injuries whilst processing tree waste on the ground. Hills Landscaping has a 6 tonne truck mounted crane with telescopic reach of 15 metres. The crane is mounted on a bogie drive truck with a 25m3 tipping body.

4. Tip Trucks

Covered tip trucks are used to tow wood chippers and gather leaf mulch in a safe way that minimises any contamination.

All tip trucks have function built canopies developed to safely contain Leaf Mulch and Wood Chip whilst permitting air flow and lowering dust causing air pollution. We have a range of tip trucks that range from 7m3 to 25m3 capacity to perform any task big or small.

5. Root Cutter

In a constantly developing urban environment root barriers have become a crucial strategy in preserving the consistency of trees and infrastructure.

The Hills Landscaping root cutter is specially developed to cut a narrow trench through earth whilst nicely cutting roots to allow the installation of root barrier.

6. Wood Chippers

We have a range of wood chippers that range from 225mm to 500mm capability.

All our wood chippers are fitted with the latest safety features and satisfy the requirements of Australian Design Standards. As an included safety function, we ensure that a selection of our wood chippers are fitted with winches to reduce manual handling injuries.

If you need the best services that you can not find anywhere else, contact us today to learn more about us or to get a complimentary quote.

 

who we are

Hills Landscaping is your Number One contractor for all your gardening and landscaping needs in the Hills District of Sydney