Stapylton
Tree removal in Stapylton
Tree removal, pruning and stump grinding for Stapylton acreage near Yellowood Reserve, where the City maps brush box open forest with a rainforest understorey.
Tree work in Stapylton
Big rural blocks, and hardwood on the reserve edge
The City of Gold Coast's history of Stapylton, archived in 2013, described the area then as a mix of light industrial, acreage and farming properties, with its railway station and state school already closed. On land like that the trees tend to be big and spread out, and gates, sheds and stock fences decide where a truck and chipper can go. The green waste is often chipped and left on the property rather than carted away.
The City maps two kinds of forest inside Yellowood Reserve: spotted gum and ironbark woodland, and brush box open forest with a rainforest understorey, both on metasediments. Spotted gum and ironbark are heavy, hard timbers and brush box grows tall, so near a house or shed on the reserve edge a tree like that is taken down in short sections on ropes, and grinding its stump out of stony ground takes time.
Services in Stapylton
Paddock gates, sheds and heavy timber
Tree removal
Hard eucalypts near houses and sheds lowered in short sections on ropes.
Tree pruning
Branches over roofs and sheds cut back, and dead wood taken out, before the fire season.
Stump grinding
Hardwood stumps in paddocks and yards ground out, with the grinder walked in through the paddock gate.
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.
Stapylton questions
Yellowood Reserve's fire class, and Yellowwood Mountain
Is Yellowood Reserve mapped as a bushfire hazard?
Yes. The City Plan rates Yellowood Reserve in Stapylton as Very High Potential Bushfire Intensity on the bushfire overlay, and High Potential Bushfire Intensity and Potential Impact Buffer areas touch the reserve as well. On acreage nearby, the trees and shrubs around a house or shed need pruning back from roofs and gutters, with dead timber and low limbs dealt with, before each fire season.
What grows on Mt Stapylton?
An archived 2013 City of Gold Coast history records patches of dry rainforest on Mt Stapylton, known locally as Yellowwood Mountain after the yellowwood, Flindersia xanthoxyla. Dry rainforest trees stand close together with vines through their crowns, so one near a house is climbed and lowered in sections, and the vines are cut free first so they cannot drag other limbs down.
