Land clearing
Land clearing and mulching in Caboolture
Land clearing and mulching across Caboolture and Moreton Bay, from one fence line to a whole block.
Regrowth that has got away, a fence line you cannot walk down, or a block that needs to be usable before anything else can happen on it.
It is chipped where it stands. The mulch either stays and does something useful, or it leaves with us.
- Chipped on site
- not carted twice
- Mulch stays
- if you want it
- Fixed price
- before anything starts
Scale
From a fence line to a whole block
Three rough sizes, and most enquiries are one of them. Yours does not have to fit exactly, it just helps to know which end of the scale you are at.
A strip
Fence lines, easements and boundaries
A metre or two either side of a fence, cleared back so you can get a mower or a post driver down it. Often the job that has to happen before a fencer will quote.
A yard
Suburban blocks that have got away
Overgrown gardens, self-sown regrowth, lantana and privet, and whatever has come up in the four years since anyone did anything. Cleared back to something you can walk across.
Acreage
Rural blocks and building sites
Larger areas cleared of scrub and regrowth, or a building envelope and access track opened up on a block that has never been worked. This is where the vegetation rules matter, so read the note further down.
The acreage end of it, from the air
Fifteen seconds over a block part way through being cleared. The stumps behind the crew are already cut and the timber is stacked, and the next tree goes over whole into the open middle.
That is how a block that size gets done. One at a time, with a rope off the excavator setting the direction and the deck worked as it goes, so there is always somewhere clear for the next one to land.
The mulch
It stays, or it goes. That is your call
Everything that comes down goes through a chipper on site, so the question is only what happens to the pile afterwards. There is a real argument for both.
Leave it here
- Spread over beds or a bare area it holds moisture, keeps the weeds down and feeds the soil as it breaks down.
- Costs less than having it carted, because a full truck is a trip.
- Keep it off the trunks of anything you are keeping, and let it age before it goes near a vegetable bed.
Fresh chip ties up nitrogen at the surface while it breaks down, which is fine on paths and around established trees and not ideal on new plantings.
Take it away
- The block is finished and clear the day we leave it.
- Right answer on a building site, a sale or anywhere a heap of chip is just in the way.
- Also the answer if what came out was weedy or diseased and you would rather none of it stayed.
Say which one you want when you book. It is easier to plan the day around a truck that is leaving full than to decide at four o'clock.
Roughly how big is it?
Even a rough size and a photo from the gate tells us most of it. If you have a boundary map or a satellite screenshot, better again.
Before we can quote it
Three things that decide the day
What can get in the gate
The width of the entry and the ground between it and the work is the first question on every clearing job. A block that only takes hand tools is a very different day from one a machine can drive onto.
What is in there
Soft regrowth and lantana clear fast. Established hardwood, old fencing wire, star pickets, rubbish dumped over the years and half-buried concrete all slow it down, and the wire is the one that stops a machine.
What is protected
Vegetation rules apply on plenty of blocks around here, particularly acreage and anything near a waterway. Check with Moreton Bay Regional Council, and with the state if it is a mapped area, before you book anyone. We will quote what you are allowed to clear.
None of that is a reason not to ring. It is the list of things we will ask you about, so having the answers speeds up the quote.
Land clearing questions
How much does it cost to clear a block?
It comes down to size, what is growing on it, and whether a machine can get in. An overgrown suburban back yard and an acre of established regrowth are different jobs by an order of magnitude. We quote a fixed price after a look at it, and we do not publish a per-acre rate because it would be wrong more often than right.
Do I need approval to clear my block?
Possibly. Vegetation protection applies to a lot of land in the Moreton Bay area, and more of it near waterways and on mapped acreage. Check with the council and with the state before anyone starts. It is a much cheaper phone call than the alternative.
Do you do the stumps as well?
Yes, and it is worth deciding up front. Clearing on its own leaves stumps at ground level, which is fine if the block is staying rough and a problem if you are mowing, fencing or building on it. Grinding them out is a separate machine and it is cheaper done in the same visit.
Can you get a machine into my block?
Tell us the width of the gate or the entry and what the ground is like between there and the work. That is usually enough to know. Where a machine cannot get in the job is done by hand, which is slower but perfectly possible.
What happens to old fencing wire and rubbish?
Wire is the thing that stops a clearing job dead, so it is worth flagging before we quote. We work around what is there and can take rubbish away, but a block with a lot of buried wire or dumped material takes longer and we would rather price that honestly up front.
Will you leave the mulch?
If you want it, yes, in a heap where you want it or spread over an area. If you would rather the block was clear the day we leave, it goes with us. Just say which when you book.
Got a tree that needs sorting?
Send a photo or give us a ring. Quotes are free and there is no obligation to book anything.