Most of the time a tree job is not really about the tree. It is about the mess afterward. Brush piles, limbs across the lawn, logs too heavy to move, and a yard-waste program that will not take any of it. Our wood chipping and debris hauling service handles that end of the job across Toronto, Etobicoke, Mississauga, and Brampton, and the rest of the west GTA. We chip brush and limbs up to about 15 cm across on site, either loading the chips into our truck or leaving them with you as free mulch. Anything too large to chip, trunk wood, big storm limbs, old log piles, gets bucked into movable pieces and hauled away. The starting price of $150 covers a small, accessible brush pile, and bigger cleanups get a free written quote so you know the full number before we start. We take this on as a standalone service too, so it does not matter whether we did the original cutting, another company did, or you did it yourself on a Saturday and then realized what you had created.
What's included
- A quick walkthrough with you before we start, so we agree on what gets chipped, what gets hauled, and what stays, such as logs you want kept for firewood.
- Dragging and staging brush, limbs, and cut wood from wherever it sits in the yard to where the chipper or the truck can actually work.
- Chipping brush and limbs on site, with the chips either loaded into our truck for disposal or blown into a pile you can use as free mulch.
- Bucking oversized limbs and trunk sections into pieces we can chip or carry, including heavy hardwood storm drops from silver maples and other large yard trees.
- Hauling away log rounds, trunk wood, and anything else too big or too dirty to chip, with disposal handled entirely at our end.
- Plywood or mats laid down to protect lawns and soft ground wherever we need to move heavy loads across them.
- A full rake and blower cleanup of twigs, bark, and sawdust from your lawn, garden beds, driveway, and the street in front of your house.
- A final walkthrough with you to confirm the yard looks the way you expected before we call the job done.
How it works
- Call or text us photos of the debris with something in frame for scale, a garbage bin works well. For simple brush piles we can usually give a firm price from photos.
- For larger or mixed cleanups we come out and leave a free written quote, so you have the full number on paper before deciding anything.
- No permit is needed for this work. Tree permits in the GTA apply to removing standing trees, not to chipping and hauling wood that is already down.
- We schedule the job, show up when we said we would, and chip and load everything we agreed on.
- We finish with a rake and blower cleanup and walk the yard with you before payment.
What moves the price above starting at $150
- Volume is the biggest factor. Starting at $150 covers a single small brush pile with easy access. A whole-yard storm cleanup or a season of accumulated debris is a bigger job and gets quoted accordingly.
- Access moves the price. A pile beside the driveway is fast. Brush that has to be dragged by hand from a fenced backyard through a narrow gate to a curbside chipper takes real time.
- Limb and log size matters. Wood too thick to chip has to be bucked with a saw and hauled, and dense hardwood like maple and oak is heavy, which means more loads.
- Condition of the pile counts. Brush that has sat for years, tangled with vines, soil, rocks, or old fence wire, chips slowly and is hard on equipment, so it costs more than fresh clean limbs.
- Keeping the chips saves money. If the chips stay on your property as mulch we skip the disposal step, and that usually brings the price down compared to hauling everything away.
- Rootballs, stump pieces, and dirt-caked wood cannot go through a chipper at all. They are pure hauling and disposal weight, so a pile with a lot of that in it costs more than clean brush.
Starting at $150, quoted in writing before any work starts.
On-site visit, written quote, no obligation. Usually within 24 hours of your call.
When you need this
- A windstorm dropped silver maple limbs across your lawn. Silver maples shed big limbs in west GTA storms more than almost any other yard tree, and the wood adds up fast.
- You had an EAB-killed ash felled, or dropped it yourself, and the trunk and limbs are sitting where they landed. Dead ash is brittle, messy wood, and the pile is always bigger than the tree looked standing.
- A declining Norway maple has been shedding deadwood all season, and the corner of the yard has quietly become a brush heap the yard-waste program will not take.
- You pruned or removed something yourself, saved money on the cutting, and now have a pile that would take thirty paper bags and six collection weeks to get rid of.
- You bought a house that came with a previous owner's log pile or debris heap, and you want the space back before landscaping or a fence build.
- A contractor took a tree down cheap without cleanup included, and that quote suddenly makes sense now that the wood is your problem.
- You are prepping for construction, a deck, a pool, or an addition, and the downed wood and brush have to be gone before the build crew shows up.
Local notes for the west GTA
Chipping and hauling wood that is already on the ground is cleanup, not tree removal, so the private tree bylaws across our service area do not stand in the way. Permits attach to removing standing trees above certain sizes: 30 cm trunk diameter in Toronto and Etobicoke, 30 cm in Brampton and Hamilton, 20 cm in Burlington, and 15 cm in some Mississauga zones, with Toronto ravine-protected land regulated at any size. If part of your cleanup involves a damaged tree that is still standing, we sort out what needs a permit before touching it. On the debris side, the west GTA generates plenty. Silver maples along older Etobicoke and Mississauga streets shed major limbs in wind and ice, and EAB-killed ash keeps coming down across Brampton and the Halton municipalities. After a big storm we prioritize hazardous situations with same-day response during business hours and schedule general cleanup in the order calls come in. After hours, leave a voicemail and we return calls first thing the next morning.
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Frequently asked questions
What does the $150 starting price actually cover? +
Starting at $150 covers a small, straightforward job: think one brush pile from a weekend of pruning, sitting somewhere our chipper or truck can reach without a long carry. From there the price moves with volume, access, and how much of the pile is wood too big to chip. A full storm cleanup with trunk wood, or a backyard pile that has to be dragged through a gate piece by piece, costs more, and we tell you exactly how much in a written quote before anything starts. We do not do surprise line items. The number on the quote is the number on the invoice unless you add work to the job after we begin.
Can I keep the wood chips? +
Yes, and plenty of people do. Fresh chips make decent mulch for beds, pathways, and around established trees, and keeping them usually lowers your price because we skip the disposal step. Two honest caveats. First, fresh chips from a single-species pile can be stringy or clumpy compared to bagged mulch, so they suit informal areas better than a manicured front bed. Second, if the debris came from a diseased tree, we will tell you, and you can decide whether you want that material staying on the property. If you do not want chips, we haul them, no problem. Just tell us which way you want to go when we quote the job.
Will you clean up debris from work another company did, or from my own cutting? +
Yes. A meaningful share of this work is exactly that: a removal that was quoted cheap because cleanup was not included, or a DIY job that got ahead of the homeowner. We do not care who did the cutting. We show up, quote the pile as it sits, and deal with it. The one thing we ask is honesty about what is in the pile. Old fence wire, metal stakes, rocks, and construction scrap hidden in brush will damage chipper knives, so if you know something like that is buried in there, say so and we will plan around it rather than finding it the hard way.
How fast can you come after a storm? +
For hazardous situations, a limb hanging over a driveway, wood blocking access, something resting on a structure, we offer same-day response during business hours whenever the schedule allows. General cleanup after a big wind or ice event gets scheduled in the order calls come in, and after a major storm that queue can run one to two weeks across the GTA, because everyone calls the same morning. Calling early helps. If you reach us after hours, leave a voicemail with your address, and text a photo if you can, and we return calls first thing the next business day. Debris that is on the ground and away from structures is ugly but stable, so it is safe for it to wait a few days.
Is there anything you cannot chip or haul? +
Chippers handle brush and limbs, not everything a yard produces. Rootballs, stump pieces, and dirt-caked wood ruin chipper knives, so those get hauled instead of chipped, and we price that accordingly. We handle tree and brush debris, so household junk, renovation waste, and treated lumber are outside this service. Wood with embedded metal, and old clothesline hooks and fence nails are common in mature yard trees, gets cut around carefully or hauled whole. And if part of the job is grinding out the stump itself rather than hauling loose pieces, that is its own service with its own equipment, and we can quote both at the same visit so you are not booking two separate companies.
Do I need a permit for any of this? +
Not for the cleanup itself. Tree permits across the GTA regulate removing standing trees, not chipping and hauling wood that is already down. The thresholds only matter if a damaged tree still needs to come down as part of the job: 30 cm trunk diameter in Toronto, Etobicoke, Brampton, and Hamilton, 20 cm in Burlington, 15 cm in some Mississauga zones, and about 24 cm in Oakville, which measures it as 76 cm around the trunk. Toronto ravine-protected land is regulated at any size. If your cleanup includes a standing removal, we check the bylaw for your address before quoting so nothing stalls mid-job. For wood already on the ground, we just show up and get it gone.