Burleigh Heads
Tree removal in Burleigh Heads
Tree lopping, removal and stump grinding in Burleigh Heads, where what is under the ground matters as much as what is over it.
Tree work in Burleigh Heads
Basalt, mangroves and a buried seawall
The headland is topped by massive hexagonal basalt columns, with boulders scattered down its slopes and along the shoreline. The park's own safety advice warns that rockfalls pose serious risks in severe weather, and near the headland a grinder finds rock before it finds the bottom of a stump.
Tchoobey Reserve on the banks of Tallebudgera Creek has a boardwalk through mangrove and casuarina forest. Mangroves are protected marine plants in Queensland, which applies on private land as much as public.
A seawall that in normal conditions lies buried under the dunes and vegetation protects the foreshore and parklands here against severe storm and erosion events, so the ground near it is not what it looks like from the surface.
Services in Burleigh Heads
Coastal trees and hard ground
Tree removal
Taken down in sections and lowered clear of the roof, the fence and the pool.
Stump grinding
Ground below the surface, with the basalt that caps this headland allowed for in the quote.
Palm removal
Cocos and other palms dismantled from the top down over a pool or a driveway.
What it costs: tree removal cost, stump grinding cost, palm removal cost
Compared: removal, lopping or pruning, stump grinding or stump removal, council tree rules compared
How it works
Four steps, and the permit comes before the price
Nothing happens without a written quote you have agreed to.
- 1
Call or send the form
Include the suburb, your details and what needs to be done.
- 2
A contractor comes to see it
On site, not off a photo, because access and what sits underneath change the job.
- 3
The permit position is checked
Against the city's vegetation mapping and the koala controls, before a price is given.
- 4
Quoted in writing
The quote sets out the scope, the timber, the stump and the date. Then a date is booked.
Burleigh questions
Koalas, and the trees on the foreshore
Do the reserves behind us affect what I can do with my own trees?
They can. The City says Burleigh Ridge and the Burleigh Green Space, the conservation reserves running west along Tallebudgera Creek, support a significant koala population, so a block backing onto them is checked against the mapping first.
Can the big pines along the foreshore be trimmed?
Not privately. The Norfolk pines in Justins Park were planted in 1934 by brothers Charles and AE Justins and sit on the city's local heritage register for their part in the character of the foreshore. Your own trees are a separate job and quoted normally.
