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Two chicks. Two Staffies. A shed full of machinery. And a serious love of transforming dirt.

Behind Thumbs Up Garden Care are Nicole & Michelle — business partners, best mates, occasional on-site debaters and the two women you’ll actually find getting their hands dirty on your project.

We’re not the type to stand around pointing at what needs to be done.

We’re the ones doing it.

And while we work together on everything, over the years we’ve each developed a few specialties…

NICOLE — THE POSI TRACK QUEEN 👑

Put Nicole behind the controls of the Posi Track and she’s in her happy place.

What she can do with a machine has to be seen to be appreciated. She has an incredible feel for levels, contours and how the land needs to flow — whether she’s cutting into a difficult slope, reshaping a driveway, preparing a site, spreading material or turning a rough, unusable piece of ground into something that suddenly makes sense.

Watching her work, you could be forgiven for thinking the Posi Track is an extension of her arms.

Smooth. Precise. Fast. And bloody good at it.

Nicole has that knack for looking at a block and visualising what it could be — and then using the machines to make it happen.

Give her dirt to move, a problem to solve and enough room to fire up the Posi…

She’s a very happy chick.

MICHELLE — ROCK WHISPERER & RESIDENT PERFECTIONIST 🪨

Then there’s Michelle.

Give her a pile of mudrock and she’ll probably spend far too long looking at individual rocks, turning them around and deciding exactly where each one belongs.

But there’s a reason for it.

Michelle has an eye for detail and a real passion for constructing natural mudrock retaining walls, steps and features that look like they belong in the landscape.

It’s not simply stacking rocks.

Every piece has a face. Every rock has a position. Levels matter. Lines matter. The way one rock meets the next matters.

And yes… she will move a rock again if it’s annoying her.

The result is the kind of natural stonework we’re incredibly proud to put our name to — strong, functional and full of character.

If Nicole is happiest moving the earth, Michelle is happiest figuring out how to hold it back beautifully.

AND THEN THERE’S MANAGEMENT… 🐾

No introduction to the Thumbs Up team would be complete without our two most important staff members:

SPROCKET & RIVER — Site Supervisors, Quality Control Officers & Chief Morale Managers.

Our two English Staffies are a huge part of our lives and, whenever the job allows, a pretty important part of the Thumbs Up crew too.

Their qualifications are extensive.

They specialise in supervising from comfortable positions, inspecting freshly moved dirt, monitoring smoko breaks, greeting approved visitors and ensuring Nicole and Michelle maintain acceptable workplace morale.

Their actual contribution to productivity remains under investigation.

Their contribution to our lives?

Immeasurable. ❤️

They’re our boys, our shadows and part of the family behind Thumbs Up.

DIFFERENT STRENGTHS. ONE PRETTY AWESOME TEAM.

The truth is, Thumbs Up works because we complement each other.

One of us might see how the land needs to be shaped. The other sees how the finished details need to come together.

We bounce ideas off each other, challenge each other, laugh a lot, occasionally disagree about whose way is better — and somewhere in amongst all of that, some pretty amazing projects get built.

We’re proud of the reputation we’ve built, but we never want Thumbs Up to become a faceless company.

We want our customers to feel comfortable calling us, throwing ideas around with us and asking questions.

No salespeople. No fancy corporate carry-on. No disappearing once the quote is signed.

Just Nicole, Michelle, Sprocket & River — a small, hands-on team that genuinely loves what we do and takes enormous pride in every project that carries the Thumbs Up name.

So if you see two chicks in work boots, a Posi Track humming away, Michelle obsessing over a rock and a couple of Staffies supervising proceedings…

You’ve found the CHICKS that DIG the DIRT! 👍🏻🐾