Service area
Land Clearing Coromandel and Hauraki, Mulching and Slope Work
The steepest country we work, on the tightest access. Coastal sections, bush margins and roadside faces.
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Working in Coromandel
Coromandel jobs tend to be smaller in area and harder per square metre than anywhere else we work. A lot of properties are holiday homes, which means vegetation gets a season or two ahead of the owner before anyone deals with it, and the slope behind the house is exactly the ground a person should not be standing on with a scrub bar. Summer fire risk is a genuine driver here, and firebreak work around dwellings and settlements is a regular request.
The country here
Steep, bush-clad and coastal, with a narrow road network and a lot of properties perched on faces that fall away hard behind them. This is the region where the 55 degree capability stops being a specification and starts being the only reason a job is possible at all. Getting the machine to site is often as much of the planning as the clearing itself.
What dominates in Coromandel
- Gorse, on coastal faces and every retired slope
- Pampas, heavy along the coast and roadside banks
- Wilding pines spreading from plantation and shelter edges
- Blackberry and woolly nightshade through gullies and bush margins
Councils and compliance
Thames-Coromandel District Council and Waikato Regional Council
Waikato Regional Council sets the regional pest rules, and Thames-Coromandel District Council manages reserves, roadsides and coastal esplanade land. Fire risk carries real weight here over summer, which is often what finally triggers a clearing job.
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Weeds we clear in Coromandel
- GorseThe big one. Dense, spiny, seeds for decades, and it takes hold on exactly the slopes a tractor cannot work.
- Pampas grassHuge clumps, prolific windborne seed, and a serious fire load. Common on banks, roadsides and coastal margins.
- Wilding pinesA national problem at landscape scale. Catch them small and it is a mulching job; leave them and it becomes a forestry operation.
- BlackberryLow, dense, thorny and endlessly persistent. The classic gully and fence-line invader.
Who we work for in Coromandel
- Lifestyle blocksThe back third of the block that got away. Usually a bank, a gully, or a boundary nobody has reached in years.
- Councils and reservesReserves, stormwater land, roadside banks and tracks, done by a contractor who clears prequalification.
- Conservation and restorationClearing pest plants off a site so it can be planted, without chemicals and without losing what is worth keeping.
- Storm and disaster recoveryReopening access after weather, on ground that is now steeper, softer and less stable than it was.
Got a job in Coromandel?
Send the address and a few photos and we will come back with an estimate. Most jobs do not need a site visit.