Pacific Pines
Tree removal in Pacific Pines
Tree removal, pruning and storm work in Pacific Pines, from the higher, more exposed blocks to the parkland edges.
Tree work in Pacific Pines
A pine plantation once, and bigger blocks now
Pacific Pines was an 800 ha site which included a pine plantation, and the vegetation and the views from its most elevated parts, out to Stradbroke Island and Coolangatta, inspired the name. Where a tall pine still stands near a house, its heavy crown sits high and takes the full force of storm winds on that exposed ground, and its cones and needles fill the gutters. A pine like that is usually taken down in sections rather than felled.
The blocks are roomier than next door. Set aside unit-sized lots and the biggest parcels, and council property boundary data gives a median lot of 719 square metres here, larger than in Oxenford, Nerang, Maudsland or Gaven, the suburbs that border it. That room means a chipper, stump grinder or small tracked platform can more often reach the back yard, instead of every branch going out by hand, though a roomier yard tends to hold a bigger tree.
Services in Pacific Pines
Pines, mahogany and room at the back
Tree removal
Pines and mahoganies taken down in sections when they stand too near the house to fell.
Storm damage
Snapped pine tops and broken gum limbs made safe after a blow.
Tree pruning
Branches cut back from the roofline so less bark and fewer needles end up in the gutters.
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.
Pacific Pines questions
Stringybark in the gutters, and the park edge
Why do the gums along the parklands drop so much bark?
Because of what grows there. The City's vegetation mapping shows Pacific Pines Parklands dominated by broad-leaved white mahogany and Queensland stringybark open forest on metasediments, tall gums with heavy timber and fibrous bark that sheds into gutters. Where one of those stands near a house, a big one usually comes out in sections with rigging, and clearing bark and leaf litter off the roof is part of the job.
The national park is behind our fence. Does it get burnt?
Queensland's park fire history records a burn in Nerang National Park in 2020. The record describes a small burn block parallel to Aldgate Crescent in Pacific Pines, and blocks along that edge are worth keeping pruned back from the house, roofline and gutters before each fire season. Any tree on the park side of the fence is state land, not yours to cut.
