Yarramalong
Tree removal in Yarramalong
Tree removal, pruning and storm clean ups in Yarramalong, from farm blocks on the valley floor to homes below the forested slopes.
Tree work in Yarramalong
A valley floodwater cuts off, and slopes that burn
After the July 2022 East Coast Low, council listed Yarramalong among the flood affected communities still isolated, and reported that fodder drops have been made over isolated areas in Yarramalong so animals cut off by the water could be fed. A storm that brings trees down here can shut the roads in as well, so fallen timber may have to wait until the water drops and a truck can get through. Trees lying across a driveway or a farm track are usually the first jobs once it does.
The forested slopes burn too. National Parks and Wildlife Service records show a wildfire named Bunning Fire that started in January 2007 and burnt about 163 hectares. Before summer that means dead trees taken out, limbs kept off roofs, and a clear space kept around the house and sheds.
Services in Yarramalong
Flood debris, fire fuel and sloping ground
Storm damage
Trees down across fences and paddock gates cut up and cleared, the timber chipped or stacked.
Tree removal
Tall gums near the house taken down in sections where the slope rules out felling them whole.
Stump grinding
Stumps from storm-felled trees ground out so the paddock or lawn can be mown again.
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.
Yarramalong questions
The church in the regrowth, the cemetery slope and the reserve
What has grown up around the old church?
The heritage listing for St Barnabas church, which is on the State Heritage Register, cites an early 1900s photograph showing the church in rough grass with only two gum trees nearby. The listing now describes the site as fairly thickly revegetating eucalypt forest. Pruning or removing young eucalypts that close to a heritage church is planned with its listing in mind and checked before work starts.
What keeps the cemetery hillside from washing away?
Grass rather than trees. Council describes the hillside at Yarramalong Cemetery as free of trees but enhanced by native grasses which are encouraged as a way of preventing erosion. On a sloping block in the valley the same thinking applies after a removal: the stump is ground where it stands and the bare patch is covered before heavy rain can wash it out.
Can trees on a reserve boundary be cut back?
Only the ones on your own land. The state's map of parks service land shows Kuluwan FR as a flora reserve managed by NPWS, its largest part covering about 769 hectares. Trees and limbs on the reserve side are left to NPWS, so a boundary job starts by finding exactly where the reserve begins.
