About us

Tree Removal Auckland

A removal-focused arborist business built around one idea: tell people the truth about their tree, quote it properly, and leave the property better than the mess suggests.

Free written quotesOn-site assessment, no obligation

Fully insured crewsPublic liability cover on every job

24/7 storm responseUrgent and fallen-tree call-outs

Full clean-up includedChipped, carted and swept

How it started

Built out of a frustration with how tree work gets sold

Tree Removal Auckland grew out of founder Daniel Rangi's years working on residential and commercial tree jobs around the city. The recurring pattern was not incompetence — there are plenty of good climbers in Auckland — it was communication. People were being given prices with no explanation, methods with no reasoning, and a bill that had moved by the time the job finished.

So the business was set up around a fairly unglamorous premise: inspect the job properly, explain what is actually involved, put the number in writing, turn up when you said you would, and clean up afterwards. None of that is clever. It is just rarer than it should be.

Daniel oversees assessments and larger removal projects alongside climbing arborist Matt Wilson and ground crew lead Sam Te Aho. Between them they cover the full range of Auckland tree work — from a straightforward back-yard removal in Glenfield to a sectional dismantle over a pool in Remuera.

Meet the team

Arborist in full protective equipment making a cut at the base of a large tree — Protective equipment, a planned cut and a clear escape route. The unremarkable parts are the ones that matter.

How we work

Five things we do differently enough to mention

We will talk you out of a job

If your tree does not need to come out, we say so. A hollow trunk with a sound outer wall is often perfectly stable, and plenty of scary-looking trees are fine. Removing deadwood or reducing one over-extended limb sometimes solves the whole problem for a fraction of the price.

We check protection before quoting

Removing a scheduled tree without consent is an offence under the Resource Management Act, and liability reaches the property owner as well as the contractor. We look the property up before we price an established tree, rather than leaving you to find out afterwards.

The quote is the price

Access, disposal, stump work and any third-party costs like traffic management or a crane are all priced up front and itemised. If something genuinely unforeseeable appears mid-job we stop and talk to you before doing anything about it.

We do not subcontract the work out

The crew that quotes your job is the crew that does it. Where a specialist input is genuinely needed — a crane operator, traffic management — we tell you who they are and what they cost rather than folding it into a number.

Clean-up is not an upsell

Brush chipped, logs carted, hard surfaces swept, lawns raked, all included as standard. If you want firewood rounds or wood chip kept, we stack it where you want it instead. That is a choice, not an extra.

We are insured, and happy to prove it

Public liability cover, with a certificate of currency available on request. Ask any tree contractor for theirs before work starts. It is an entirely reasonable request, and the ones who hesitate are telling you something useful.

Safety

The standards this work is meant to be done to

Tree work is consistently among the highest-risk activities in New Zealand. The hazards are well understood and the guidance is public: WorkSafe New Zealand publishes specific guidance on tree work and tree felling, and the New Zealand Arboricultural Association maintains professional standards for the industry.

What that looks like on a job: full protective equipment on every crew member, a documented plan for how the tree comes down before anyone leaves the ground, agreed escape routes, exclusion zones that get enforced, and gear inspected rather than assumed.

Where power lines are involved, no work starts until the line is de-energised or covered by the network operator. Where kauri are on or near a site, dieback hygiene applies to every person and machine entering the root zone. Neither of those is negotiable regardless of what it does to the schedule.

The guidance we work to