Brush removal and chipping

What we take

Branches, limbs, hedge and shrub prunings, storm debris, volunteer saplings, overgrown fence-line growth, and the slash pile someone else left behind. Anything woody.

What we do not take: construction debris, treated lumber, general household waste, or anything that has been sitting long enough to have become a compost heap.

Chipped on site, or hauled

Chipping is usually cheaper because the volume reduction is enormous — a pile that fills a driveway becomes a manageable heap of chips. You can keep the chips as mulch or we take them.

Hauling makes sense for smaller volumes, for material too large or too dirty to chip, or where there is no room to set up a chipper.

Free mulch is a genuine perk of the first option, with one caveat worth knowing: fresh chips tie up nitrogen as they decompose, so they belong on top of beds as a surface mulch rather than dug into planting soil.

The Greeley-specific reasons this comes up

Spring snow. March and April wet snow does not just break big limbs, it strips small wood off the whole canopy. A single storm can put more brush on a lawn than a year of normal pruning.

Chinook wind. Sustained 60 to 80 mph events do the same, more selectively.

Fire load. On any property near open ground, a brush pile is stored fuel. Weld County has the grass, the wind and the subdivision-against-open-ground pattern that makes that matter. Clearing brush is part of defensible space, not separate from it.

Rodents and snakes. A woodpile or brush pile against a structure is habitat. Moving it thirty feet away solves most of it; removing it solves all of it.

How it is priced

By volume and access, not by weight. A tidy pile near a driveway where a chipper can be parked alongside is quick. The same volume scattered across a back paddock, or behind a gate too narrow for a chipper, takes considerably longer. If you can consolidate the pile somewhere accessible before we arrive, the job gets cheaper.

Questions we get about this

Do I have to stack it first?

No, but it will cost less if you do. A consolidated pile near vehicle access is much faster to process than material scattered across a property.

Can I keep the wood chips?

Yes, free. Use them as surface mulch on beds rather than mixing them into planting soil, because fresh chips tie up nitrogen as they break down.

Do you take stumps or logs?

Logs yes. Stumps are a different job because they need grinding rather than hauling.

What about ash brush?

It cannot be moved out of the quarantine area, so tell us if any of the material is ash and we will route the disposal accordingly.

Do you do one-off cleanups or ongoing?

Both. Most brush work is a one-off after a storm or a clearout, but we do recurring work for acreage and commercial properties.