Tascott
Tree lopping in Tascott
Tree lopping, pruning and removal in Tascott, for blocks that back onto the bush and the national park beyond it.
Tree work in Tascott
Wildfires, planned burns and small fires at the bush edge
A wildfire named Tascott Block 80 started in late May 1994 and burnt about 79.7 hectares, the national parks fire history shows. Fire is put through this bush on purpose too: a prescribed burn named Tascott covered about 41 hectares in 1981-82, and another, logged as Tascot, about 55.7 hectares in 1995-96. Trees along a boundary that is burnt like that can carry fire scars at the base, so a scarred trunk is checked for decay and hollowing before anyone climbs it or brings it down.
The same history holds small wildfires logged as bush alight at Tascott in April 2011 and September 2013, after wildfires under the suburb's name in 1967-68, 1971-72, 1976-77 and 1997-98. Fire has come back to that edge many times, so on those blocks the work starts with dead material near the house, once the parcel's bush fire prone mapping and 10/50 entitlement are confirmed.
Services in Tascott
Canopy gaps, fire scars and steep yards
Tree pruning
Canopy lifted well clear of the roofline and dead branches taken out where a yard meets the national park.
Tree removal
Dead trees near the house taken down after a check that none of them is needed as habitat.
Stump grinding
Ground out where the grinder can be brought in, or cut flush where a steep slope gives it no footing.
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.
Tascott questions
Heritage graves, slope work and approvals
Can trees near the old Scott graves be pruned?
Only with the council's approval. The graves of the Scott family are listed as a local heritage item in the Central Coast LEP, and the council's tree exemptions do not cover land that holds one. The graves lie on a steep bushland slope backing onto Brisbane Water National Park, at the back of a private house block, so limbs near them are lowered on ropes and never dropped.
Is a hard lop treated the same as a removal?
It can be. Under the state's biodiversity rules, to clear vegetation includes felling it, and also to lop or otherwise remove a substantial part of the vegetation. A fire season job that would take most of a tree's canopy is therefore assessed as clearing, and goes to the council the way a removal would.
How does timber come off a steep bush block?
Where a truck or elevated platform cannot reach the back of a slope, trees are climbed and taken down in pieces, and the timber is carried or winched out rather than chipped where it lands. What is not chipped at the kerb can go to the council's facilities at Buttonderry at Jilliby and Woy Woy, which take garden organics for a fee.
