Montville
Tree removal in Montville
Tree lopping, pruning and removal in Montville, from the houses along the ridge to the blocks that back onto Kondalilla.
Tree work in Montville
The town once called Razorback
Montville was first called Razorback, and council's history of the Blackall Range towns gives the reason: the steep ridge on which it stands. Houses line the top of that ridge and step down below it, so a job often starts with a steep driveway and very little room for a truck and chipper. Heavy limbs are lowered on ropes, so nothing runs downhill onto a roof or the road.
The memorial trees in the Village Green are tall spreading figs that overhang Memorial Close and much of the park. Children from Montville State School planted the six of them as an Arbour Day project in September 1923, and each tree carries a small brass plaque naming one of the dead from the First World War. Pruning them falls to council under the heritage rules, and work beside the Green avoids heavy cuts that would stress the old figs.
Services in Montville
Ridge driveways and old shade trees
Tree pruning
Crossing branches and dead wood taken out of big shade trees, leaving a crown that still shades the garden.
Storm damage
Limbs torn off on the ridge cleared from roofs and steep driveways, with any hanging wood brought down first.
Stump grinding
Old stumps on a sloping yard ground out by a machine that suits the access as much as the stump.
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.
Montville questions
Kondalilla burns, the lookout park and the Green
How often is the Kondalilla bush burnt?
Nearly every year lately. The state parks service's fire history shows the same area of about 1.3 hectares in Kondalilla National Park burnt in 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, though the first of those records is labelled a mechanical treatment. On blocks that back onto the park, dead wood is worth taking out and limbs lifting off the roof and gutters before the dry season.
Can the trees in the lookout park be thinned for a view?
No. The planning scheme maps Razorback Lookout Park as a Local Heritage Place held by council as trustee, with its heritage type recorded as park. Neighbours cannot prune its trees to open up a view, and work on an adjoining block leaves those trees and their roots intact.
What do the Village Green figs mean for the houses nearby?
Mostly crown work rather than removals. Three Ficus obliqua on the south-west side of the Green, with smaller trees and shrubs, join the memorial row to make an extensive green shady area. Shade trees on that scale drop leaf and fruit and run surface roots under lawns and paths, so nearby properties more often need crown lifting and pruning that spares the roots.
