Yaroomba
Tree removal in Yaroomba
Tree pruning, removal and stump grinding in Yaroomba, from the low ground near the golf course to the homes that back onto bushland.
Tree work in Yaroomba
Old wetland, a roost and a bushland park
Queensland Places records that in Yaroomba a large wetland area was much later developed as the Coolum golf course, alongside the Hyatt Regency resort. Ground that began as wetland tends to stay soft and wet. Trees on it, and on the low-lying blocks nearby, tend to root shallowly, and a heavy machine may need ground protection, or a lighter one may be used, so it does not bog.
Council's open data on flying-fox roosts lists a roost site recorded as Palmer Coolum. The bats are protected, so any cutting at the roost or beside it is planned around the colony, and a job on a neighbouring block may have to wait for a time when they are away.
Other homes back onto the 11-hectare Yaroomba Bushland Park. On those blocks the truck and chipper are set up at the front, and the timber is carried out through the yard rather than through the bush.
Services in Yaroomba
Soft ground and protected neighbours
Tree pruning
Pruning near the Palmer Coolum roost kept light and timed around the bats, winter months included.
Stump grinding
Stumps on soft, once-wet ground taken out with a grinder light enough not to bog.
Tree removal permits
Trees beside a council reserve checked against the vegetation rules before anything is cut.
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.
Yaroomba questions
Winter flying-foxes and a damaged reserve
Are the bats gone by winter?
Not always, at this roost. In 2017 black and grey-headed flying-foxes returned to their overwintering site of Palmer Coolum Resort, the first time they had done so since 2014. The colony can be there through the cooler months, so work in or beside it is timed by when the bats are actually present, not by the season.
Does council prosecute damage to trees here?
It has. Council says it successfully prosecuted a case of vegetation damage at the Donegal Drive Environment Reserve, one of two spots on the Coolum coastline where native trees had been damaged. On a block beside a reserve, the boundary is confirmed first, only trees on the private side are pruned or removed, and nothing is cut back into it.
