Miami
Tree removal in Miami
Tree removal, pruning and stump grinding in Miami, from reclaimed blocks behind the beach to the headland and the bushland reserve.
Tree work in Miami
Reclaimed ground, floodwater and headland rock
Behind the foreshore, Miami was mostly wetland, modified in the 1930s by drainage works and land reclamation, and that land later took the postwar housing. Garden trees on it often stand in sandy fill over a high water table, with shallow, spreading roots that tip more easily when a storm saturates the soil.
In the Mountain View Avenue catchment in Miami, the City says flooding has been known to affect roads, buildings and homes. Yards there hold water after heavy rain, which loosens a tree's grip before the next storm, and a soft lawn can keep a stump grinder or a loaded truck off the block until it dries.
Miami Beach sits between a rocky headland to the south and Nobby Beach to the north, with the Miami stairs climbing the headland. Blocks on its slopes can be steep, with rock close to the surface, so trees there are often climbed and lowered on ropes, and a stump grinder can strike rock before it reaches full depth.
Services in Miami
Rock, wet lawns and the reserve fence
Tree removal
Climbed and lowered by rope on steep headland blocks where a truck cannot reach the tree.
Tree pruning
Blackbutt limbs taken back from the roof and gutters along the reserve, on your side of the boundary.
Stump grinding
Stumps on the headland ground as deep as the rock beneath allows.
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.
Miami questions
Blackbutt over the fence, fire mapping and the old pines
What comes over the fence from Miami Bushland Reserve?
Bark, leaves and now and then a heavy limb. The reserve's dominant vegetation is Eucalyptus pilularis woodland and open forest, which is blackbutt, and that type is listed as endangered. Work from your side stops at the boundary, and limbs hanging over from the reserve are raised with the City.
Do trees beside the reserve need pruning before fire season?
It is a sensible job. The City Plan's bushfire map shows parts of Miami Bushland Reserve as Very High Potential Bushfire Intensity, and other parts as Potential Impact Buffer. Cutting your own trees and shrubs back from the roofline and gutters and lifting the low limbs helps, while the trees inside the reserve stay the council's.
Who prunes the Norfolk pines behind the beach?
The City, where they stand on the foreshore or the street. In 1932, the recently formed Miami Progress Association asked the South Coast Town Council to plant the distinctive avenue of Norfolk Island pine between the two Nobbies, the headlands either side of the beach. Those pines drop heavy branches and cones onto roofs, gutters and cars nearby, and clearing up after them on your own block is a private job.
