Owner-led, weekend-focused, honest by default.

Tarzan Trimming is a side business run by an arborist who works on commercial tree crews during the day. Real rigging, real PPE, real cut technique, on real jobs.

On evenings and weekends, that same approach gets brought home to residential customers across the areas we serve in south Ontario, from the Toronto-to-Kitchener corridor. The work is smaller, the customer is the homeowner, and the price is set by the actual job, not by what a commission rep can sell.

The focus right now is tree pruning and limb removal. They are the highest-value, safest tree services a single-arborist operation can do well. Full tree removal is queued for once the rig is scaled to handle it safely. If you need a full tree taken down today, we will tell you honestly and point you to a crew that can do it.

The reason this stays a side business is simple. Days are spent on commercial tree crews, learning how the bigger jobs are rigged, cut, and cleaned up properly. Evenings and weekends are when that experience gets put to work for homeowners directly, at a pace where every tree gets real attention instead of being rushed to fit a route. Keeping it small is a choice, not a limitation.

On a job like this, the person who looks at your tree is the person who quotes it and the person who makes the cut. There is no estimator who never touches a saw and no crew that shows up not knowing what was promised. That means the quote reflects the actual work, and if something on site turns out different from the photos, you hear about it from the one accountable for the result.

Safety drives what gets taken on and what gets turned away. A limb tangled in a power line, a tree leaning hard toward a house, a job that needs gear or a second set of trained hands this setup does not have yet, those get an honest no and a pointer toward someone equipped for it. Walking away from work that is not safe to do alone is part of doing the job right, not a sign the job is too small.

A one-arborist operation lives or dies on word of mouth, so there is no upside in overselling. A tree that can wait a season gets told to wait. A cut that will not help the tree does not get made just to pad an invoice. The goal is the kind of clean, careful work that gets you recommended to a neighbour, because that recommendation is what keeps the evenings and weekends booked. Send a photo and the details through the contact page and you will get an honest read on whether the work is worth doing now or whether the tree can wait.