Ormeau
Tree removal in Ormeau
Tree removal, lopping and stump grinding in Ormeau, from acreage blocks to suburban yards beside the council's gums.
Tree work in Ormeau
Acreage lots, and forest red gum by the park
The City Plan's property boundary data counts 740 lots of between 4,000 and 40,000 square metres in Ormeau, more than in any of the suburbs that border it: Yatala, Pimpama, Kingsholme, Stapylton, Ormeau Hills and Norwell. On acreage like that the big eucalypts often stand well away from the street, so the job allows for a long carry or tracked machinery to reach them. Wood comes down in sections where there is room to land it, the green waste is chipped or left on the block as mulch, and after rain the machinery waits rather than rutting soft ground.
Inside Norfolk Buffer Park, council vegetation mapping shows forest red gum, pink bloodwood and grey ironbark open forest on alluvium. Forest red gum is a big, spreading koala food tree prone to shedding heavy limbs, and grey ironbark has very hard timber, so a large one near a house beside the park comes down in sections with rigging and a big chipper. If a koala is in the tree on the day, the work waits until it moves on.
Services in Ormeau
Long carries, hard timber and heavy limbs
Tree removal
Big eucalypts on acreage lowered in sections wherever there is room to land the wood.
Tree lopping
Heavy limbs taken off forest red gums before they come down over a roof or a fence.
Stump grinding
Stumps ground out across the bigger blocks, waiting for dry weather if the lawn is soft.
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.
Ormeau questions
Street gums and a reserve mapped for fire
Is the big gum on the footpath ours to cut back?
Usually not. The council's Urban Forest records hold 847 gum trees inside Ormeau, filed under that one name, more than twice the count of the next tree, tuckeroo, and most of them grow in parks and along streets. When one of those drops bark, leaves or a limb over your fence or roof, the fix is a request to the City, because the tree is theirs.
Our yard adjoins Vennor Reserve. Does the bushfire mapping matter?
It matters for the trees on your side. The City Plan's bushfire overlay maps parts of Vennor Reserve as Very High Potential Bushfire Intensity. Trimming your own trees and shrubs back from the house and gutters, and lifting the low limbs, before the fire season is worth the effort, while the reserve's own trees belong to the council and are not yours to touch.
