Peats Ridge
Tree lopping in Peats Ridge
Tree lopping, pruning and removal in Peats Ridge, from limbs over the roof to dead trees on the bush edge.
Tree work in Peats Ridge
Fire on a ridge road, and a school in the bush
The parks service has mapped a wildfire named Barakee Rd, which takes its name from one of the ridge's own roads. It started at the end of August 1991 and burnt about 75 hectares, which shows how close the bush runs to the houses on the ridge. Before each fire season the useful jobs are limbs cut back from the roof line, gutters cleared, and dead or leaning trees near the house and sheds felled before they become fuel.
The heritage listing for Peats Ridge Public School describes several predominantly timber buildings set amongst natural bushland, with a citrus orchard adjacent. A job on a block like that can mean tall natives over timber walls and fruit trees beside them, each needing different gear and a different hand.
Services in Peats Ridge
Roof lines, bush fuel and orchard trees
Tree pruning
Limbs lopped back to clean cuts and lowered on ropes where a roof or shed sits underneath.
Tree removal
Tall gums taken down in sections where a house, shed or orchard leaves no room to fell them whole.
Stump grinding
Gum and fruit tree stumps ground out once the tree is down, so the ground can be mown or replanted.
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.
Peats Ridge questions
Memorial plantings at the hall, and a week-long burn
Are there memorial trees at the club rooms?
There are. The club rooms' heritage listing records that trees were planted in memory of early pioneers associated with the clubroom, and that the Peats Ridge CWA also planted trees to honour long serving members. Because the hall is a listed heritage item, work near those trees is planned with council's heritage rules in mind and with the people who look after the hall.
Are planned burns carried out near Peats Ridge?
They are. NPWS mapping shows a prescribed burn named Upper Popran Creek, which ran for a week in August 2014 and covered about 128 hectares. Burns of that size show how much fuel builds up in the bush around the ridge.
