23 years in business

Location: Tauranga – Bay of Plenty

Contact Name: Richard McCormick

Website: www.treewisemen.co.nz

Business mission and vision:
Tree Wise Men Limited is dedicated to meeting customer needs through achieving excellence in all areas of arboriculture and landscaping works. As a company we are committed to compliance. The responsibility of safety and quality is shared by all staff and is adopted as an integral part of our everyday business to ensure that Tree Wise Men Limited is recognised as a premier provider in our market.
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“Tree Wise Men are specialists all aspects of vegetation management and is made up of two departments which often overlap. These are as follows: Arboriculture Team which undertakes all manner of vegetation and tree work from tree removal to delicate formative pruning of specimen trees. Works cover a wide range from on ground works to aerial climbing, removal of trees by use of crane, helicopter and technical rigging projects. Landscape team covers range of projects including site preparation, planting and maintenance. These include native revegetation planting, riparian planting, wetland restoration planting, commercial landscaping, retirement village landscaping, large scale subdivision planting”

Tree Wise Men is a locally owned and operated business which has been operating in Bay of Plenty since 1999. Our small team of 15 staff offer a professional and friendly service to clients around the Bay of Plenty.

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Inspired by my father who always had great ideas of going into business for himself. Unfortunately, this never eventuated due to an illness which he did not recover from. This made me realise that I needed to take the opportunity and when the opportunity arose, I grabbed it with both hands and have not looked back since.

Confidence in myself to take on the challenge and learning not to worry when the work loads lighten…..in fact these have turned out to be opportunities to take a breather.

Some of the biggest challenges have been taking on jobs that appear way beyond our capability. However if you break the projects down to smaller components, plan each stage and get great people behind you most things are achievable.

An example of this was taking on a job to remove 18 large mature exotic trees from sensitive archaeological sites on Mauao (Mt Maunganui). This work needed to be undertaken without any direct felling and with absolute minimal disturbance to the sensitive site.

At first visit this appeared very daunting, however after some thought and collaboration with another similar business TWM came up with a plan. Planning started in Feb 2022 with 6 months of organisation to successful completion of the job in July 2022. We came up with a proposal to use the largest commercial helicopter in NZ (Black Hawk) which operates out of Whakatane, to lift out sections of the trees as the arborists in the trees cut each piece. This scale of work had never been carried out in New Zealand and is possible a world first.

This work was successfully carried out by Tree Wise Men in conjunction with an excellent team of contract arborists, big machine contractor and a professional helicopter pilot and Black Hawk Helicopter.

This job was months in the planning, coordinating arborists, contractors, meeting all the Health and Safety requirements and of course the weather and fitting in with the general public.

We are currently in a period of perseverance which will continue for some time yet. Covid has been a very difficult time for our businesses. TWM has been lucky not to be short of work but other challenges have arisen and continue to make running a business very difficult.

Covid presents its own challenges with sickness, isolations and trying to operate during minimum approach distances.

Also related to Covid is staff shortages, material shortages, long lead times for product, unavailability of product.

TWM has had to persevere through this time and we continue to forge on head trying our best to meet our clients needs.

TWM is gaining a reputation for outstanding professional service leading to constant demand for our services. Below is a selection of the various works carried out over the years. Many more can be provided if necessary.

– Wairakei Stormwater Reserve – Exotic tree removal from Mauao with use of a Black Hawk Helicopter

– Restoration of a significant local Pa Site – Puketoromiro Pa and wetland area (Refer to TCC Site)

– The Lakes subdivision (2005-2008 and 2012 – 2020) Planting of 2 million revegetation plants and 30000 trees to develop one of Tauranga best subdivision (refer you tube ref on The Lakes)

– Restoration of Te Ahui Pa in welcome Bay in 2020 through removal of noxious privets trees, site preparation, planting and ongoing maintenance.

– Tauranga Harbour Link planting project (2008-2012) supply and install the soft landscape to the new Tauranga Harbour Bridge

– Tauriko Business Estate landscape works from 2008 to current including street scape tree planting, mitigation planting, wetland planting and revegetation planting

The professionalism of all our team and the relationships they have built with customers and clients. They are the team that makes the business so successful.

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We are always encouraging our staff to develop their skills and knowledge to increase their personal development and set them up for a better future.

 

Apprenticeships staff are currently on include:

Primary ITO Apprenticeship Arboriculture Level 3 & 4 (2-3years)

Primary ITO Apprenticeship Horticulture Services-Amenity (2 years)

 

Short Courses – FTNZ Chainsaw Course, FTNZ Tree Felling Course, First Aid, NZTA Traffic Control, Site Safe Course, Growsafe Chemical application, Annual Arboriculture Conferences, Class 2 licenses

We have many accolades from clients in email form, we are unsure if these can be used without permission. We are currently asking for client reviews for testimonials for our website.

Satisfaction of seeing staff grow in confidence see them develop and seeing them realise their potential.

School Planting Days – on projects such as Esmeralda Stormwater Mitigation and Wairakei Stormwater reserve. This included education and supervised planting.

Employment of local Hapu in the Kopurererua Valley River Realignment project.

Coordinating and running community planting days at Kopurererua Valley, Mauao, Wairakei Stormwater Reserve.

Community consultation and education on various projects for Wairakei Strom Water Reserve.

We use local in the first instant and employ many local businesses to support our services including sub-contractors, suppliers and products.

We deliver free mulch when available, leave firewood logs for public, cat rescues, support local business first, donations to local charity and TECT Helicopter Rescue, donate firewood to the Lions.

TWM is currently in hot demand for the services it supplies. We have become the go to contractor for many projects due to our historic performance on similar projects and our ability to deliver.

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