Tugun
Tree removal in Tugun
Tree removal, lopping and stump grinding in Tugun, from the streets behind the beach up to the hillside blocks and units of Tugun Heights.
Tree work in Tugun
Endangered blackbutt on the hill, ironbark at the quarry
Tugun Hill Conservation Area, about 16 hectares, protects one of the last remaining populations of the endangered blackbutt, and its forest is habitat for koalas, possums and gliders. Where a blackbutt on a private block near the hill stands over a house, its hollows are checked for possums and gliders before a cut, while the trees inside the reserve are left to the City.
The City's vegetation mapping shows grey gum and ironbark open forest in Tugun Quarry Reserve, with white mahogany, tallowwood and some blackbutt mapped there too. These are very hard, heavy timbers, so one of them over a roof near the reserve is usually rigged down in sections, and the wood calls for a large chipper or log handling rather than a small domestic machine.
West from the beach, Tugun Hill mixes older houses with recent additions, and further west the more elevated Tugun Heights has more medium density units. A tree up there is often reached by a sloping driveway or across shared grounds, so the quote settles where the truck and chipper can stand.
Services in Tugun
Hillside access and very dense hardwood
Tree removal
Big gums taken out from beside houses on the hillside blocks, with the timber brought out to the truck.
Tree lopping
Limbs cut back over shared driveways and unit grounds in Tugun Heights, once the body corporate agrees.
Stump grinding
Ironbark and grey gum stumps ground out, slower going in timber this dense.
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.
Tugun questions
A heritage fig on the old hotel site, and fire beside the hill
Can the heritage fig on the old hotel site be pruned?
Only within the council's heritage rules. The City Plan's heritage overlay maps the Tugun Hotel Moreton Bay Fig as a registered local heritage place, with a protection boundary of the tree plus a 5 m radius. It was planted around 1926, and the register values it for its link to the site of the first hotel built at Tugun. So pruning it, or digging or grinding inside that radius, is planned with the council before anyone quotes it.
Is pruning worth doing before fire season on the hill?
For houses that back onto the reserve, yes. The City Plan's bushfire overlay shows parts of Tugun Hill Conservation Area as Very High Potential Bushfire Intensity, with other parts at Medium or Potential Impact Buffer. The useful work sits on the house side of the fence: lifting the lowest branches, cutting back anything that touches the roof, and taking out dead wood.
