Pelican Waters
Tree removal in Pelican Waters
Tree lopping, pruning and stump grinding in Pelican Waters, from the canal-front homes to the blocks along Lamerough Creek.
Tree work in Pelican Waters
Canal blocks on estuary ground
Queensland Places describes Pelican Waters as a canal estate formed on the Bells Creek estuary and wetland, separated from the coast by Golden Beach. Ground like that is low, wet and sandy or silty, and garden trees in it tend to root shallowly and can lean or go over when the soil is saturated.
Development of the estate began in 1990, and forty or more percent of the suburb's area is stated to be open space, with the canals making up much of it. Many homes back straight onto the water, so a waterfront tree is reached through the yard rather than from the canal.
Services in Pelican Waters
Waterfront trees and creek-side gums
Tree lopping
Waterfront trees brought down in sections on the yard side, with branches and sawdust kept out of the canal.
Tree pruning
Paperbarks and gums near the creek cut back where peeling bark and heavy limbs hang over the house.
Stump grinding
Stumps ground out on lawns over the Bells Creek estuary and wetland, with ground protection laid first where the turf is soft.
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.
- 1
Tell us about the tree
The suburb, what the tree stands near and what you would like done with it.
- 2
Someone comes to look
A tree contractor who covers your area sees the tree, the access and whatever is underneath it.
- 3
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.
- 4
Quoted in writing
Scope, timber, stump and date set out on one page. Nothing is booked until you accept it.
Pelican Waters questions
The creek woodland and getting a chipper in
What grows along Lamerough Creek?
Council's notes for the Lamerough Creekside Walk describe a woodland of paperbarks and eucalypts with sedges along the creek side, inside the Lamerough Creek West Environmental Reserve. Those trees grow in wet, low ground, so near a house their shallow roots are worth checking after wet weather.
Can a chipper get in beside the creek?
Not always. Access for a chipper to a tree near Lamerough Creek is often only from the street side, so the cut timber is carried out to it through the yard.
