Tree felling in Durbanville
Large garden trees and wind damaged limbs.
Big garden trees on open, windy stands. The south-easter takes limbs off them every year; sometimes the whole tree.
- Fully insured
- Written price first
- We work in Durbanville regularly
Golden Tree Fellers works across Cape Town, the Southern Suburbs, the northern suburbs and out into the winelands. Durbanville is on our regular run: we know the roads, the gardens and the trees.
Give us a call or send a WhatsApp with your address and a photo of the tree. We will tell you straight away whether we can help and what it is likely to cost, then come out for a free site visit and a written price.
What we do in Durbanville
What Durbanville usually calls us for
How it works in Durbanville
The same four steps on every job, from a single palm to a forty-year-old gum over the roof.
Tree felling in Durbanville: wind, big stands and old windbreaks
Durbanville sits higher and more open than most of the northern suburbs. In summer the south-easter comes over the hills with nothing to slow it down, and the winter fronts bring rain and north-westerly gusts on top of that. Trees that grew up sheltered are suddenly standing alone once a neighbour builds or clears, and that is usually when a limb lets go.
A lot of the big trees here were planted as windbreaks when the area was still smallholdings and farmland: gums, pines and long rows of cypress. Decades later they stand over houses in Durbanville Hills, Vierlanden, Sonstraal Heights, Aurora and Pinehurst, far taller than anyone planned for. Taking one down means working in sections, lowering wood on ropes past roofs, walls and pool fences rather than dropping it in one piece.
Durbanville jobs we see most
- Gum limbs broken or hanging after a windy night, over a roof, carport or driveway. These are an emergency storm clean-up and we prioritise them.
- Cypress and conifer screens that have grown tall and bare at the bottom, so they no longer screen anything and catch the wind like a sail.
- Pines dropping needles and cones into pools and gutters, with roots lifting paving.
- Old stumps left behind in new-build gardens, ground out with our stump removal service so the lawn or paving can go down.
Do you need a permit?
Most garden trees on private property can be taken down without one. The exception is a tree on the national protected trees list, such as a milkwood or a real yellowwood: those need a licence from the national forestry department (DFFE) before anyone cuts them. If you are not sure what your tree is, send us a photo and ask before you book.
We also work in nearby Bellville, Brackenfell and Bloubergstrand.
We also cover
Golden Tree Fellers works across Cape Town, the Southern Suburbs, the northern suburbs and out into the winelands. If your town is on this list we already work there regularly. If it is not, call us anyway and we will tell you honestly whether we can get to you.