Parkwood
Tree removal in Parkwood
Tree removal, lopping and stump grinding in Parkwood, on the roomier blocks and along Ballybunion Park and Brushwood Ridge.
Tree work in Parkwood
Blackbutt forest next door, and room to work
The City's vegetation mapping shows blackbutt tall open forest on metasediments in Ballybunion Park, with broad-leaved paperbark open forest on the alluvium beside it. Blackbutts grow into very tall gums carrying heavy limbs. The paperbarks stand on wetter ground, and they are the trees to check for lean and a lifting root plate after heavy rain.
Leave out unit lots and the biggest parcels, and Parkwood works out at a median lot of 765 square metres on the City Plan's property data, bigger than in Arundel, Molendinar or Southport, the suburbs on its borders. With that much space beside and behind the house, a chipper, stump grinder or small tracked machine can often be brought through to the tree. Bigger yards also tend to hold bigger trees.
Services in Parkwood
Tall gums, wet ground and back yard access
Tree removal
Tall blackbutts close to the house taken down in rigged sections rather than felled whole.
Tree lopping
Heavy limbs over roofs and sheds cut back to sound wood on your side of the fence.
Stump grinding
Stumps ground below the lawn, with the grinder taken right through to the back yard.
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.
Parkwood questions
Footpath quandongs, and two parks mapped for fire
Who prunes the quandongs on the footpath?
The City does: a footpath tree is a council tree, so pruning one that hangs over a driveway or roof is a request to the City rather than a private job. Its Urban Forest records hold 176 Eumundi quandongs in the suburb, the commonest tree on the list, ahead of golden pendas and tuckeroos. They are rainforest trees that drop blue fruit and leaves onto paths, cars and gutters.
Is the bush behind Parkwood homes mapped for fire?
The City Plan's bushfire hazard overlay maps parts of Brushwood Ridge Parklands as Very High and High Potential Bushfire Intensity. Parts of Ballybunion Park are mapped Very High as well, with other areas High or in the Potential Impact Buffer. Before the fire season, blocks backing onto either park are worth clearing of dead branches, leaf litter and shrubs near the house, and the parks' own trees are left to the City.
