Tree removal in Tallai

Tallai is a suburb of big blocks. Excluding anything under 250 square metres, the City Plan's property boundaries show a median lot of 5,325 square metres, against 789 in Gilston and 777 in Mudgeeraba. Where a tree stands well clear of the house, that space often lets it come down in large sections. Big blocks also mean tall hardwoods on sloping ground, a long haul for the timber back to the truck, and a chipper towed a long distance in from the gate.

The City's environmental covenants map puts 37 environmental protection covenant areas entirely within Tallai. Those areas lie over parts of private blocks, and a covenant on a title can restrict taking out vegetation inside its boundary. So before a removal on a Tallai block is priced, the title and the map are worth checking, and the City's consent can be needed for work inside a covenant area.

Glenrowan Bush Reserve holds broad-leaved spotted gum and white mahogany open forest in the City's 2019 vegetation mapping, along with brush box over a rainforest understorey and gum-topped ironbark woodland, all on metasediments. These are tall, dense hardwoods. Where trees like these stand near a house on the reserve's edge, a removal is done in sections with ropes and rigging on sloping ground, and the chipper and stump grinder need to be big enough for the timber and the stony hillside soil.