Point Clare
Tree removal in Point Clare
Tree removal, pruning and storm work for homes on a bush edge with 36 fire records named for Point Clare.
Tree work in Point Clare
A long wildfire record, and planned burns
The NSW parks service's fire history holds 36 fire records named for Point Clare, and 29 of them were wildfires, from 1965-66 to 1994-95. The largest of those, in February 1980, burnt about 72.7 hectares.
The same history records two prescribed burns named Wendy Drive. The first, in August 1995, covered about 87.1 hectares, and the second followed in October 2008. Burns of that size show the bush behind the houses there is managed as a fire edge, so a tree job there is mostly dead wood, branches resting on the roof and leaf litter packed into the gutters.
Services in Point Clare
Dead wood, storm timber and the cemetery boundary
Tree pruning
Dead limbs taken out and the canopy lifted clear of roofs on the blocks that back onto the bush.
Storm damage
Split and fallen trees made safe first, then cut up and cleared from the yard.
Tree removal
Trees on neighbouring blocks taken down in sections, with no piece dropped near one of the last and largest red gums left at the cemetery.
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.
Point Clare questions
The cemetery red gum, storm debris and dead trees
Can the big red gum at the cemetery be pruned?
Only by the council. Gosford City Council's significant tree register listed it as a council-owned Sydney red gum at Grading 1, a beautiful specimen and one of the last and largest red gums left at the cemetery. A worry about its heavy limbs over a fence is taken to the council rather than to a contractor.
What if a storm brings trees down in the yard?
Clean ups can take a while after a big storm. In June 2015 Coast Community News reported that Point Clare Public School was still waiting for fallen trees and debris left by the April disaster to be removed from its playground. Where a storm has just split or shifted a tree so that it is an imminent risk to the house, and no arborist can be found in time, the council takes an urgent tree works application.
Does a dead tree on the bush edge still need a permit?
It can. The council's dead or dying exemption cannot be used where the tree is needed as habitat, including hollows in trunks or branches. A dead tree is checked for hollows, and photographed, before anyone treats its removal as exempt.
