Steiglitz
Tree removal in Steiglitz
Palms, storm-damaged trees and removals in Steiglitz, from the Wilton Estate at Cabbage Tree Point to the semi-rural land beyond it.
Tree work in Steiglitz
A village on the main channel, and the Wilton Estate
Queensland Places describes Steiglitz as a semi-rural village on Pimpama Island, adjoining the main channel in south Moreton Bay. Waterfront blocks there catch the wind and salt coming off the channel, which puts the tall palms, she-oaks and gums near the water first in line for a check before summer: for a lean, for loose fronds, and for limbs grown heavy at the ends.
Queensland Places also records that in the 1960s a landowner subdivided Cabbage Tree Point for the Wilton Estate, which is now the urban part of Steiglitz, with shops, a boat ramp and a lake. On those suburban blocks a tree is usually reached from the street, with a standard chipper at the kerb. Outside the estate the locality is semi-rural, so the bigger blocks bring longer carries and softer ground to plan for.
The City's soil map shows young sandy soils on sand and mud in tidal flat deposits under Cabbage Tree Point Conservation Park, along with intertidal mangrove swamp soils and salt-crusted flats above the high tide mark. Where loose tidal sand and waterlogged mud like that run under a nearby yard, trees root shallow and can go over in a storm, and a stump grinder bogs in it easily, which is why the heavy gear needs mats laid down or a run of dry weather.
Services in Steiglitz
Channel wind, tidal sand and estate blocks
Palm removal
Palms along the channel frontage cut back to sound fronds, or taken down if they have to go.
Storm damage
Trees blown over where they rooted shallow in sandy, tidal ground, cut free and hauled off the yard.
Tree removal
Trees on the estate's suburban blocks taken down in pieces from the street side, with the chipper at the kerb.
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.
Steiglitz questions
Mangroves, the park's own trees and a fire-mapped reserve
What grows in the park at Cabbage Tree Point?
The City's vegetation mapping shows river mangrove low open forest there, with grey mangrove forest, claypan with samphire and marine couch grassland, and broad-leaved paperbark, forest red gum and swamp box forest on the alluvium. Where the mangroves, claypan and marine couch meet a yard, the tidal ground is soft going for machinery, and the paperbarks and swamp box on the wet alluvium are the trees to watch for a lean.
Whose trees are inside the conservation park?
Neither the neighbouring landholder's nor the council's. The park is named in Queensland's Nature Conservation (Protected Areas) Regulation as a conservation park, so its trees are protected area vegetation. For a property beside it, an overhanging branch is a question for the authority that manages the park, asked before the saw comes out, and no timber or debris goes over the fence into the park.
Is any bush in Steiglitz mapped for fire?
Some is. The City Plan's bushfire hazard area overlay maps parts of Short Cut Road Reserve as High Potential Bushfire Intensity, and parts as Potential Impact Buffer. A home or shed beside that reserve is worth readying before the fire season, with shrubs and branches cut back from the walls, low limbs taken off and the gutters emptied of leaves.
