Davistown
Tree lopping in Davistown
Tree lopping, removal and stump grinding in Davistown, from the foreshore reserve by the wharf to blocks that border the council-owned Davistown Wetlands.
Tree work in Davistown
A landmark pine and fig beside the wharf
Illoura Reserve, beside the wharf at the end of Davis Avenue, holds a Norfolk Island pine that Gosford City Council's Significant Tree Register counted among the well known landmarks of Davistown. Pruning it is council's job, so private work nearby leaves the pine alone, and a quote for a neighbouring tree allows for working beneath a tall protected canopy in wind off Brisbane Water.
Next to it, the register listed a council-owned Port Jackson fig. Figs of that kind carry long, heavy limbs over wide, shallow roots, and neither the canopy nor the roots of this one are a neighbour's to cut.
Services in Davistown
Waterfront blocks beside council trees
Tree pruning
Private trees on the foreshore thinned and shaped, with nothing taken from the reserve or the wetland.
Stump grinding
Stumps near the reserve ground out with the machine kept off the root zone of a council-owned Port Jackson fig.
Tree removal
Trees on tight waterfront blocks taken down in pieces where the house and the water leave no room to fell them.
How it works
From the first message to a written quote
The council question is settled before any price, and nothing is booked until you have said yes to a quote in writing.
- 1
Tell us what the tree is doing
Where it stands, what it is close to and what you would like done about it.
- 2
A contractor comes to see it
A tree contractor who covers your suburb looks at the tree, the access and what is underneath it.
- 3
The council question is answered
Height, trunk size, distance from the house and the species decide whether a permit or an exemption applies.
- 4
You get it in writing
Scope, timber, stump and date on one page, and nothing is booked until you have said yes.
Davistown questions
The wetlands, and limbs from council land
Who looks after the trees in the wetlands?
Council does. Central Coast Council has resolved to create a 10-year works implementation plan for the council-owned Davistown Wetlands, with the Davistown Progress Association, to maintain and repair them. A job on a block next to the wetland keeps its cuttings, mulch and machinery out of it.
Can a branch from council land be cut where it hangs over?
Only once council has been asked. A limb reaching over the fence from the wetland or the foreshore reserve grows on a council tree, so the request goes to council before anyone climbs or cuts.
