Dooralong
Tree removal in Dooralong
Tree removal, pruning and stump grinding in Dooralong, for valley blocks below the ridges and the bush that climbs them.
Tree work in Dooralong
Timber getters, orchards and a fire off the ridge
The Dooralong valley was logged before it was planted with orchards. A school inspector, quoted in the heritage listing for Dooralong Public School, noted in 1913 that orchard settlement is going on and is replacing the timber industry, and several of the parents who applied for the school were timber getters. So a property here may hold regrowth bush alongside old fruit or farm trees. An old fruit tree is often small enough to prune or take out from the ground, while a tall regrowth tree beside a shed may have to be climbed and lowered in pieces.
Fire has come down off these ridges before. The same listing records that on 13 December 1938 the teacher sent the children home after he and the boys spent the morning raking around the fences, to make the grounds safe to burn back to a serious fire racing down the ridge towards the school. On a block below a ridge, most of the useful work is on the uphill side: dead trees and dropped limbs cleared, and branches kept back from the house and sheds.
Services in Dooralong
Uphill clearing, old fruit trees and sheds
Tree removal
Dead trees taken out on the slope above the house, and tall regrowth lowered in pieces beside sheds.
Tree pruning
Old fruit trees reduced, and limbs lifted off roofs, sheds and fences on valley blocks.
Stump grinding
Stumps of cleared regrowth and old orchard trees ground out where the grinder can reach.
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.
Dooralong questions
A school saved from fire, and tanks on reserve land
Has fire reached buildings in Dooralong before?
It has. The school's heritage record quotes the teacher reporting in November 1915 that the school ground had been swept by a destructive bush-fire, which threatened the outbuildings and fences until he and other men saved them. On a Dooralong block today the same kinds of structure need protecting, so limbs are kept off the roof and clear space is left around sheds and fences.
Is there town water for fighting a fire in Dooralong?
No. In a December 2017 release on firefighting water, council said its newest tanks at Dooralong were located on Dooralong Reserve Trust land, part of a program for high risk places with no town water, where refilling a fire truck can take a long time. A fire here is harder to fight than one in town, so the clearing is done well before summer, not when smoke is already on the ridge.
