Mooloolaba
Tree removal in Mooloolaba
Tree removal, lopping and stump grinding in Mooloolaba, from the Spit and the foreshore to the blocks around Emerald Woods.
Tree work in Mooloolaba
Sand, coffee rock and salt wind
The Spit formed on a bar of sandstone, with gravel and sand laid over it and then overlaid with coffee rock, a hard layer of compacted vegetable matter and sand. A stump grinder that reaches it slows right down.
This coast moves. In 1936 cyclonic weather caused erosion of the sand dunes by twenty metres on the Spit and washed a house into the sea, and trees growing in sand along the foreshore root wide and shallow to match.
Pandanus grow all along the foreshore, and in the new Northern Parkland the council treated them against the Jamella leafhopper which can cause dieback. A browning pandanus in a yard is worth having looked at before it is written off.
Services in Mooloolaba
Pandanus, pines and the foreshore
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.
Mooloolaba questions
Bats, dunes and heritage parks
Can trees near Emerald Woods be pruned any time?
Timing matters there. Emerald Woods is one of the longest recorded urban flying-fox roosts, and the council has waited until the bats left for the season before trimming deadwood in the reserve. Work near the roost is planned around that.
What about the dune trees in front of the houses?
They are not private trees. The council describes the foreshore reserve as an area of protected dunal vegetation between the beach and parkland or property, so work there is the council's call. Trees on your own side of the boundary are quoted normally.
Is Charles Clarke Park heritage listed?
Yes. It is mapped as a Local Heritage Place in the council's planning scheme, so the trees in it are the council's to look after.
