Eumundi
Tree removal in Eumundi
Pruning, removal and stump grinding for Eumundi, from the memorial trees in the main street to the hillside blocks around the village.
Tree work in Eumundi
A war memorial planted as trees
The Eumundi War Memorial, on the Queensland Heritage Register, is a planting of memorial trees. Its largest part stands in the roadway of Memorial Drive, where three figs, three camphor laurels, three lilly pillies and a jacaranda grow, and two more camphor laurels stand outside the School of Arts. Pruning any of them is a council and heritage matter, so a job on a neighbouring property works around their canopy instead of cutting back to the boundary.
The memorial began as twenty fig trees. Five of those figs are still standing, and the fifteen that did not survive were replaced with camphor laurels, lilly pillies and jacarandas, so the planting now mixes old figs with younger trees. Any job beside it starts by confirming which trees are the original figs, before a single cut is made near them.
Many of the trees in Caplick Park were planted by Eumundi pioneer Dick Caplick, who spent his early life cutting trees down and in later life wanted to replace what he had removed. Dick Caplick Park is mapped in the planning scheme as a Local Heritage Place, land subject to the heritage overlay. Work on the blocks beside it keeps machinery and debris out of the park.
Services in Eumundi
Big crowns and sloping yards
Tree pruning
Limbs from big figs and camphor laurels in the yard cut back where they reach over a roof or a shed, each to a sound fork.
Tree lopping
Crowns brought down on tall trees that now overshadow a house built on former farm land.
Stump grinding
Ground below the surface, with a smaller machine walked in where a truck cannot climb the slope.
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.
Eumundi questions
Memorial care, Clem Park and the hills
Who looks after the memorial trees?
Not the neighbours. The heritage register says the trees and plaques are cared for by the Maroochy Council arborist and the Eumundi Historical Association. A limb hanging over a property from one of them is raised with council before anyone cuts it.
What do the big trees in Clem Park mean for nearby yards?
On the western side of Gridley Street, inside Clem Park, three camphor laurels, two figs, two flame trees and a lilly pilly complete the memorial, and the heritage register says most are mature and form a large and dominant canopy. Crowns that size come with wide surface roots, so on the blocks around the park, pruning back from roofs and driveways is done without cutting into roots that may belong to a listed tree.
Do the hills change how a tree comes down?
Often. Queensland Places describes Eumundi as a rural village in hilly country around the upper reaches of the North Maroochy River, and dairying and banana growing once filled the hillsides. On a sloping block a tree is lowered in sections rather than dropped downhill whole, and the carry from the tree to the chipper can be a long one.
