Coochin Creek
Tree removal in Coochin Creek
Tree removal, lopping and pruning for Coochin Creek acreage between the national park, the state forest and the mangrove-lined creek.
Tree work in Coochin Creek
Paperbark banks and hard eucalypt timber
At the Coochin Creek day-use area in Beerwah State Forest, the creek banks are lined with mangroves, and Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service describes forests of pink bloodwoods, paperbark tea trees and scribbly gums. Paperbarks grow on wet, soft ground where a loaded truck or a big machine can bog, so a job near them plans ground protection or brings smaller gear. Bloodwoods and scribbly gums are hard, dense eucalypt timber, and the quote allows for that when one near a house comes down.
Council's environment levy bought 65 hectares at Coochin Creek, protecting 450 metres of Coochin Creek riparian habitat. The creek flows into the Ramsar-designated Pumicestone Passage. That creek-side bush is now council conservation land, and its trees are council's to look after, so on a block next to it, felled limbs, machinery and chips stay clear of the reserve and the water.
Services in Coochin Creek
Soft creek ground, dense gum wood and fire season
Tree lopping
Pink bloodwood and scribbly gum crowns reduced, the hard wood lowered rather than dropped near the house.
Stump grinding
Paperbark stumps ground out with mats under the machine, or a compact one, on ground that stays wet.
Tree pruning
Crowns lifted and thinned on acreage that backs onto the state forest or the national park.
How it works
What happens after you get in touch
The council question is answered before the price, and nothing is booked until you have the quote in writing and have said yes to it.
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Tell us about the tree
The suburb, what the tree stands near and what you would like done with it.
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Someone comes to look
A tree contractor who covers your area sees the tree, the access and whatever is underneath it.
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The council position is checked
Lot size, how close the tree is to the house and the mapping on the block decide whether an application comes first.
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Quoted in writing
Scope, timber, stump and date set out on one page. Nothing is booked until you accept it.
Coochin Creek questions
Tweedales, the campground burn and an old settlement
Is the bush around Coochin Creek ever burnt?
Both wildfire and planned fire are on record. The state's fire history maps about 126.5 hectares at Tweedales, in Pumicestone National Park, burnt by a wildfire in April 2016. A planned burn has also been run in Beerwah State Forest along the campground access road and Roys Rd. On acreage near either, dead and dying trees are worth taking out before the fire season, with low limbs lifted and no canopy left hanging over the roof.
Who decides about the trees at the Campbellville site?
Council. Its planning scheme overlay maps the Campbellville Settlement and Cemetery as a Local Heritage Place on council-owned land. Pruning or removal on or beside it is checked with council before work starts, and work on the land next to it keeps machinery and falling limbs out of the old cemetery.
