Yandina
Tree removal in Yandina
Tree removal, lopping and flood clean-ups in Yandina, from the low river flats to the heritage grounds at Koongalba.
Tree work in Yandina
Heritage camphors and a rising river
Koongalba, a Yandina house on the Queensland Heritage Register, has an avenue of seven large Camphor Laurels forming its driveway. Camphor laurel is a restricted invasive plant across the Sunshine Coast, but these ones are part of a listed State heritage place, and cutting one back or taking it out can need heritage approval or an exemption first. Big, dense camphors like these come down in sections, not in one piece.
The Bureau of Meteorology's flood history lists 5.15 metres at the Yandina gauge in June 1983, the highest Yandina peak in its table, and 4.52 metres in February 2022. When the river runs that high, the low flats stay waterlogged for days, and trees on them can lean or uproot once the water drops. Stump grinders and loaded trucks wait until that ground firms up.
Services in Yandina
Heavy camphor timber and soft river flats
Tree lopping
Weight taken off big camphors and other dense-wooded trees that hang over driveways and roofs.
Storm damage
Leaning or uprooted trees on the flats cleared after high water, once a truck can get onto the ground.
Tree removal permits
Trees in heritage-listed grounds checked against State and council rules before any cut.
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.
Yandina questions
Koongalba's bunyas and weekend tip hours
Can the bunya pines at Koongalba be trimmed?
Only after a heritage check. At Koongalba, Bunya Pines stand along the southern boundary, and the register says the mature plantings there contribute to the Yandina townscape. Bunya cones are heavy enough to hurt people and dent roofs, so any cone removal or limb work is cleared first, and tall bunyas are climbed and dismantled from the top rather than dropped.
When can green waste go to the Yandina tip?
Only at weekends. Council lists the Yandina transfer station as open 9.00am to 2.00pm on Saturday and Sunday, so a weekday job in town cannot drop its load there. Branches are mulched on site instead, or taken to a council facility that is open that day.
