Mount Duneed
Tree removal in Mount Duneed
Tree removal, pruning and stump grinding in Mount Duneed, from blocks around the old volcanic mount to yards in the growth area.
Tree work in Mount Duneed
A volcanic cone and retained native vegetation
The Mount Duneed Recreation Reserve encloses the mount which is a volcanic cone, with radio masts on its slopes. Volcanic ground can hold rock close to the surface, so on blocks around the mount a tree may have shallow, spreading roots, and that is checked before it is felled.
On the planning map, the Armstrong Creek West precinct lies within Mount Duneed, and it is zoned under Schedule 3 to the Urban Growth Zone in the Greater Geelong Planning Scheme. That schedule requires an application to remove vegetation identified as retained vegetation in the Armstrong Creek West Native Vegetation Precinct Plan to be referred to the referral authority the scheme specifies. So a tree or patch of native vegetation the plan marks for retention cannot simply come out for a backyard project: the referral adds time, and the plan is checked before a quote.
Sources: Mount Duneed, Victorian Places (retrieved 15/10/2026); Schedule 3 to the Urban Growth Zone, Armstrong Creek West Precinct, Greater Geelong Planning Scheme (retrieved 15/10/2026); Trees dataset, City of Greater Geelong (Geelong Data Exchange), smooth bark apple myrtles (retrieved 15/10/2026); Trees dataset, City of Greater Geelong (Geelong Data Exchange), black wattles (retrieved 15/10/2026)
Services in Mount Duneed
Stony ground, broad crowns and old wattles
Tree removal
An old wattle on a private lot taken down in sections before it splits or collapses on its own.
Tree pruning
Broad, heavy crowns on private trees thinned and reduced, so less weight hangs over the house and the yard.
Stump grinding
On blocks around the mount, stumps are ground as deep as the stone under the soil allows, with the depth settled on the visit.
What it costs: tree removal cost, stump grinding cost
Compared: removal, lopping or pruning, stump grinding or stump removal, council tree rules compared
How it works
From the first call to a clear garden
Nothing happens without a written quote you have agreed to.
Tell us about the tree
Call or send the form with the tree and what is worrying you.
A contractor comes to see it
A local tree contractor looks at the tree, the access and whatever sits underneath it, because a quote off a photo misses the things that change the job.
A written quote
The quote sets out the scope, what happens to the timber and the stump, and the date. It is the contractor's quote, and nothing starts until you accept it.
The work and the clean up
On the day the tree is dealt with as quoted, the green waste leaves on the truck and the lawn is raked.
Mount Duneed questions
The City's apple myrtles and black wattles
Who looks after the apple myrtles in parks and nature strips?
The City of Greater Geelong. Counted by suburb, its public tree records list 1,097 of the 5,602 smooth bark apple myrtles for Mount Duneed, more than for any other suburb. Those are City trees, so pruning or taking one out is for the City to decide, and as the species grows into a broad, heavy crowned tree that can drop limbs, private work beside one keeps machines out from under its crown and off its roots.
Are the black wattles likely to come down?
Old ones can. The City's records list 108 of the 565 black wattles for Mount Duneed, the most for any suburb. Black wattle grows quickly but is short lived, and old trees tend to split and collapse, so one leaning over a back fence from a park is worth reporting to the City early.
