Maleny
Tree removal in Maleny
Tree removal, lopping and stump grinding in Maleny, up on the range where the rainforest trees are big and the ground is rarely dry.
Tree work in Maleny
Rainforest on the range
Mary Cairncross Scenic Reserve in Maleny is 55 hectares of sub-tropical rainforest, and the red cedars there tower over the canopy. The red cedar loses its leaves in the winter months, unlike most native trees, so a bare cedar in July is not necessarily a dead one.
The Bureau of Meteorology's Maleny station recorded a mean annual rainfall of 2001.5 mm, with February the wettest month. Ground that wet stays soft for much of the year, which decides whether a machine can cross a lawn or a tree has to be carried out in pieces.
Where rainforest trees have fallen, the giant stinging tree, or gimpi gimpi, is quick to move in, and even its dropped leaves can hurt. On a block beside rainforest it is worth pointing out before anyone starts clearing underneath.
Services in Maleny
Big trees, wet ground
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.
Maleny questions
Bunyas, big blocks and town trees
Why do bunya pines around Maleny need extra care?
Because something in the soil is killing them. In April 2024 ABC Rural reported a stand of dead bunya pines on the outskirts of Maleny that had been killed by Phytophthora cinnamomi, a pathogen that gets in through the fine feeder roots. Machinery and boots that carry soil from one block to the next can carry it too.
Are the bigger blocks around town a different job?
Mostly in how the work is done. Queensland Places notes that from the 1980s people built on one- and two-acre allotments here, and a big block usually means long carries, soft paddocks and trees far bigger than a house yard holds.
Who looks after the council's own trees in town?
The council does. During the Maple Street upgrade it said any street tree that needed a trim for safety would be done under the supervision of council's arborist team, and trees on your own block are quoted in the ordinary way.
