Lower Beechmont
Tree removal in Lower Beechmont
Tree removal, pruning and stump grinding in Lower Beechmont, where house-sized blocks sit among tall eucalypts on the hillside.
Tree work in Lower Beechmont
House-sized blocks under very tall gums
The typical Lower Beechmont lot is a house block, not acreage. Counting parcels of 250 square metres and over, the property boundary data in the City Plan works out to a median lot of 885 square metres, a small fraction of the median in Advancetown. Tall eucalypts here stand beside houses, fences and neighbours, so a removal is usually done in small rigged pieces, with little room to set up a chipper.
Beechmont Conservation Area, inside the suburb, holds flooded gum tall open forest on alluvium in the City's 2019 vegetation mapping, along with gully vine forest and white mahogany open forest, some of it mixed with tallowwood and grey gum. Flooded gums grow very tall and shed heavy limbs, and tallowwood and grey gum are among the densest hardwoods in the district, so every piece cut from one is heavy to rig and lower.
Queensland's transport department records that its landslip repairs in Lower Beechmont in 2012-13 included removing 23 mature and 6 seedling Queensland nut, with the Department of Defence providing a translocation site. Wild Queensland nut, Macadamia integrifolia, is listed as vulnerable under federal environment law. On a job in native bush here, any macadamia is identified before cutting starts near it.
Services in Lower Beechmont
Tight yards, very tall timber and steep banks
Tree removal
Tall gums beside houses and fences taken down in small rigged pieces, with the timber lowered into tight yards.
Tree pruning
Branches lifted off roofs and gutters on homes that back onto the conservation area.
Stump grinding
Stumps ground out with a compact machine that suits small, sloping house blocks.
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.
Lower Beechmont questions
Very High fire mapping, and ground that slipped under the road
What does the fire overlay show for Lower Beechmont?
The City Plan maps Beechmont Conservation Area in Lower Beechmont as Very High Potential Bushfire Intensity on its bushfire hazard area overlay, with Potential Impact Buffer areas also touching the reserve. For homes that back onto it, that means trees and shrubs pruned back from roofs and gutters, low limbs lifted and dead timber taken out before fire weather arrives.
Has the ground in Lower Beechmont slipped before?
Yes, under a road. More than a decade ago, Transport and Main Roads stabilised the road foundation at the landslip site near Mirani Street and widened a section of the road there, moving it into the hillside. On a steep block, a tree is taken down in sections rather than felled down the slope, heavy machines stay off wet banks, and a stump in a bank is often ground flush or left, since its roots still bind the soil.
