Booroobin
Tree removal in Booroobin
Tree pruning, lopping and stump grinding in Booroobin, including blocks on the boundary of the Policeman Spur Nature Refuge.
Tree work in Booroobin
Cockatoo feed trees and a fire on the park edge
Writing on council's website, a Booroobin landholder names forest sheoaks, the feed source of glossy black cockatoos that frequent the property, as a valuable forest species that tree harvesting usually destroys. Where the birds feed, owners often want the sheoaks kept, so a job thins or takes out the trees crowding them instead. Piles of chewed cones under a sheoak are the sign the cockatoos are using it.
The state's park fire records include a wildfire, filed under Bellthorpe National Park, that burnt national park and private land between Mears Lane and Postmans Track. That fire was in 2019 and covered about 17 hectares. Where fire has reached private land, the fuel to remove first is in the trees nearest the house: dead wood, shedding bark and low branches that would carry flame from the bush to the walls.
Services in Booroobin
Sheoaks, refuge boundaries and fire fuel
Tree lopping
Tall trees near a house lowered in sections, with the debris kept out of any reserve next door.
Stump grinding
Stumps from thinned trees ground below the surface, clear of the roots of the sheoaks being kept.
Tree removal permits
Boundary trees beside the refuge raised with council before a quote.
How it works
What happens after you get in touch
The council question is answered before the price, and nothing is booked until you have the quote in writing and have said yes to it.
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Tell us about the tree
The suburb, what the tree stands near and what you would like done with it.
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Someone comes to look
A tree contractor who covers your area sees the tree, the access and whatever is underneath it.
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The council position is checked
Lot size, how close the tree is to the house and the mapping on the block decide whether an application comes first.
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Quoted in writing
Scope, timber, stump and date set out on one page. Nothing is booked until you accept it.
Booroobin questions
The council refuge at Policeman Spur
Who manages the nature refuge in Booroobin?
Council. The Policeman Spur Nature Refuge, about 39.96 hectares, is Environment Levy land settled in January 1999 and now under council operational management. Trees on the refuge side of a shared boundary are for council to manage, so a job on the next block keeps its cut limbs and gear out of the refuge.
Can I clear along the fence with the refuge?
Council says you can clear vegetation within 3 metres on your property side of a boundary fence where the clearing is reasonably necessary, and that you should let the neighbours know first. On a block beside the refuge, that neighbour is council, and council also says to confirm beforehand that the vegetation is not protected by an approval or a covenant.
