About
The people behind Big Green
A Bowmanville tree care outfit run by a working arborist, not a call centre. Same person quotes the job, runs the crew and answers the phone afterwards.
Meet Chris Eble-Scott
Big Green Tree Care is owned and run by Chris Eble-Scott, an arborist based in Bowmanville. He is on nearly every job: up the tree, on the controls, or standing in the driveway walking a homeowner through what is about to happen and why.
He started Big Green in 2023 after years in the trade, because he loves arboriculture. The idea was simple: show up when you say you will, do the work to a standard you would accept on your own property, and leave the yard cleaner than you found it.
Since then the company has grown into a full crew running removals, pruning, stump grinding, lot clearing and 24/7 storm response across Durham Region and Northumberland County, from Bowmanville west to Oshawa and east through Port Hope, Cobourg, [Grafton](/tree-service-grafton) and Roseneath.
Qualifications, insurance and safety
Tree work is one of the few trades where a bad decision damages a house or injures someone in seconds. That is why the training goes across the whole crew of five, not just whoever happens to be holding the saw that day.
Every one of them carries Working at Heights, first aid and aerial rescue training, and is certified on the equipment they run. Four of the five hold a college diploma in arboriculture. Two are ticketed to operate the Merlo.
Working at Heights
Whole crew
Fall protection and rope access
First aid
Whole crew
Certified on site every day
Aerial rescue
Whole crew
Trained to get a climber down
Arboriculture diploma
Four of five
College tree care program
Chainsaw and chipper
Whole crew
Equipment certificates
Merlo operator ticket
Two of five
Grapplesaw telehandler
Big Green is fully insured and carries WSIB coverage. Certificates for both are available on request before any work starts, and we would rather you asked. Anyone quoting your tree work should be able to hand those over without hesitating. If they cannot, the liability for an injury in your garden has a way of becoming yours.
The equipment
The centrepiece is a Merlo grapplesaw telehandler. It grabs a section of trunk, cuts it while holding it, and sets it down where we want it, which means large limbs over a roof or a fence never swing on a rope at all. It also reaches over obstacles a bucket truck cannot get near, so we can work tight backyards and laneways without dismantling a fence to get in.
Around it we run climbing and rigging gear for the trees no machine can reach, chippers for brush, a stump grinder for what is left in the ground, and trailers to haul everything off site the same day. Storm calls get the same kit, at whatever hour the tree came down.
If you want the detail on how a removal is actually sequenced, that is written out on the tree removal page.
