Tanawha
Tree removal in Tanawha
Tree removal, lopping and pruning in Tanawha, from the ridgetop blocks to the gullies and creek flats below them.
Tree work in Tanawha
Tall gums on ridges that can slip
In the western bushland of the Maroochy Bushland Botanic Garden, the Tall Gums bushwalk winds through tall open eucalypt forest on the slopes and ridges, with wet forest and rainforest lower down in the gullies. Gums like those on a Tanawha ridge are big, heavy trees on steep ground, and taking one down beside a home usually means rigging it and lowering it piece by piece, not felling it whole. Whether the truck and chipper can get close is worked out before the quote.
The slopes can move, too. After heavy rain from February to May 2022, the council listed 12 major landslip sites needing engineered repairs, and Tanawha had one of them. The slip there was on Tanawha Tourist Drive. On a sloping block, trees are checked for a fresh lean or moving roots after a long wet spell, and heavy machinery stays off soft ground, which can mean climbing the tree and taking it down in sections.
Services in Tanawha
Ridge gums, creek gums and soft slopes
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.
Tanawha questions
Creek gums, planned burns and the nature refuge
Do the gums along the creek drop limbs?
They can. On the eastern bank of Mountain Creek in the botanic garden, the rainforest remnant includes palms, cycads and flooded gums, and flooded gums on creek flats get very tall and can shed heavy limbs. Where one stands over a home, it is worth checking for limb drop, and damp creek ground can limit where a stump grinder or truck can go.
Is the bush beside the houses ever burnt?
Yes. Sunshine Coast Council's 2022 planned burn schedule listed Tall Gums Environment Reserve in Tanawha twice, among burns meant to reduce forest fuel before the spring bushfire season. On blocks near the reserve, dead wood, leaf litter and low limbs are kept away from the house, and branches are cut back from the roof and gutters.
Who looks after the trees in the nature refuge?
The council does. Its environment levy register lists the Tanawha Tall-Gums Nature Refuge, about 28 hectares settled in 2002, and the larger Tall Gums Environment Reserve, both under council management. Pruning or removing trees inside them is the council's business, not the neighbours', so work on a bordering block begins with finding exactly where the boundary runs.
