What is brush chipping & hauling?
Brush chipping feeds limbs, branches, and woody debris through a mechanical chipper that reduces them to wood chips on site, shrinking a truckload of brush into a wheelbarrow-sized pile of usable mulch. True Tree Service chips and hauls across Humboldt and Del Norte counties as a standalone service; no tree removal required.
What we chip and haul
Brush is the part of tree work nobody plans for until it is a pile taking over the driveway. Our chipper handles it on site, fast, and you do not need to have booked a removal to get your property cleaned up.
Storm debris
Every winter blow leaves the North Coast covered in downed limbs and broken tops. We clear, chip, and haul storm debris as a standalone call, and after big events we run cleanup routes through the hardest-hit neighborhoods.
Your own brush piles
The pruning pile that got ahead of you, the blackberry and brush from a fence-line clearing, the mountain the previous owner left behind the shed. Stack it where we can reach it, or point us at it where it lies, and it leaves as chips.
Defensible space clearing
For inland properties especially, around Willow Creek, Gasquet, and the river canyons, brush is fuel. We clear ladder fuels and cut brush around structures and chip it immediately, instead of leaving drying piles next to the thing you are trying to protect.
Land and lot clearing
Clearing a building site, a garden plot, a pasture edge, or an RV pad produces staggering amounts of woody debris. Chipping on site turns a disposal problem into mulch, and what cannot be chipped gets hauled.
Keep the chips: free mulch from your own trees
Wood chips are the most underrated product in the garden. Spread under trees and over beds, they hold soil moisture through the dry months, suppress weeds, feed the soil as they break down, and keep winter rain from compacting bare soil. Commercial mulch is the same product with a price tag and a truck trip attached.
Plenty of our customers ask us to leave the chips, and gardeners should. When nearby jobs produce extra loads, we have been known to drop chips off for folks who want more; ask when you call and we will put you on the list if a load comes up in your area.
Why cleanup is part of every quote
A tree job is not done when the tree is down; it is done when you cannot tell we were there except the tree is gone. Chipping is how we keep that promise on every removal and trim, which is also why our reviews mention clean sites almost as often as they mention the tree work.
For standalone chipping and hauling, quotes are free and usually quick: a couple of photos of the pile and the access is often enough for a firm number.
Defensible space and fire-safe clearing
The biggest reason North Coast properties book brush work now is fire. Clearing ladder fuels, thinning brush away from structures, and chipping the slash on site is exactly the work our defensible space service is built on. If your project is about the 100 feet around your home rather than a one-time pile, start there; the assessment covers the whole property, not just the brush.
Keep the chips or lose them, your call
Fresh chips are genuinely useful: garden paths, weed suppression around mature plantings, mud control at gates and chicken runs. If you want them, we blow them into a pile where you point. If you do not, they leave with us the same day.
Gardeners around Humboldt also ask us for chip drops when we are working nearby. If you want a load for your property, get on the list: it is the same chips we would otherwise haul, delivered when a job in your area produces them.
What's included with every job
- ✓On-site chipping, even for large limbs
- ✓Chips left as free mulch or hauled away
- ✓Storm debris and brush pile cleanup
- ✓Defensible space brush clearing
- ✓Standalone service, no removal required
