Service category
Yard debris removal across the Golden Isles.
Branches, leaves, hedge clippings, palm fronds, pine-straw cleanups, brush piles. Year-round yard-waste hauling — separate from storm cleanup. One trip, hauled away.
The short version
Yard & Storm Debris at a glance.
- What it is
- Year-round yard-waste hauling — branches, leaves, pine straw, and brush — separate from event-driven storm cleanup.
- What’s included
- Branches and limbs already cut to length
- Leaves, pine straw, and palm fronds
- Hedge, shrub, and grass clippings
- Brush piles and garden waste
- Green-waste recycling routing where possible
- How pricing works
- Priced by volume — how much of the truck the load fills — plus access. We don’t do the tree cutting itself; we haul after the tree service. When the county curbside schedule fits, we’ll tell you it’s the cheaper path.
Yard debris removal is the year-round version of the work — the steady seasonal hauling, separate from storm and hurricane cleanup, which is its own category. Customers calling for yard-debris work are clearing tree-trim debris after a regular trim, raking out a season's worth of leaves and pine straw, finishing a hedge cutback that left more brush than the green bin will hold, or cleaning up after a landscaping project that generated a pile no curbside can take.
In coastal Georgia the yard never really stops producing. Live oaks and pines drop year-round, palm fronds come down with every breeze, pine straw piles up by the season, and the growing season runs long. That's the rhythm this page serves — the routine, non-emergency clearing that keeps a property maintained, as distinct from the surge work after a named storm.
The work is straightforward: we load it, we haul it, and we sort whether the load routes to yard-waste recycling or to the landfill based on what's in it. Clean green waste routes to yard-waste recycling where possible — routed where possible, not guaranteed — and mixed loads get sorted so the routing stays honest.
We're also straight about the cheapest path. Glynn County and McIntosh County both run their own yard-waste collection schedules, and when the county route fits your timeline and volume, we'll tell you to use it. Private hauling earns its keep on volumes that exceed the curbside limits, on jobs you want gone the same day, and on debris the county won't take.
Who calls us
Who we run this work for.
Homeowners after a routine yard project — a tree trim, a hedge cutback, a flower-bed overhaul — left with more brush, branches, and clippings than the curbside green bin will hold. They want it gone in one trip rather than spread across weeks of bin days.
Seasonal-cleanup customers clearing a fall's worth of leaves, a season of pine straw, downed palm fronds, and the general accumulation that builds up across a coastal Georgia growing season. These are the steady, recurring calls that keep a property maintained.
Landscapers, lawn-care operators, and tree services needing the debris hauled after they've done the cutting. The crew does the trim or the project; we come in behind and clear the pile so they don't have to haul it themselves or tie up their truck.
Property managers, HOAs, and larger-lot owners with common-area or whole-property clearings that run beyond a single curbside pickup — scheduled multi-trip work on a defined timeline.
How we do it
From the call to the haul.
Most yard-debris jobs scope from photos or a quick walkthrough, because the question is mainly volume and access — how big the pile is, what's in it, and whether the truck can get close. Photos are usually enough; larger or whole-property clearings benefit from a five-minute look. Either way the estimate is free and there's no obligation.
On the job, the crew loads by hand into the truck — branches, brush, bagged and loose yard waste, clippings, fronds, and straw. We bring the labor and the truck; you point at the pile. Small branches and brush go in as-is; anything already cut to length from a prior trim loads the same way. We don't do the cutting — the tree work is the tree service's job, and we haul after it's done.
Then we sort the routing. Clean green waste routes to yard-waste recycling where possible; mixed loads get separated so the green material isn't dragged to the landfill unnecessarily and the non-green material goes where it belongs. Multi-load jobs run across the same day or across scheduled days depending on volume.
What’s in scope
What we haul, and what we won’t.
What we haul in this category
- Tree branches and limbs already cut to length (we haul, we don't cut)
- Leaves, pine needles, and pine straw
- Palm fronds and palm trimmings
- Hedge, shrub, and bush clippings
- Grass clippings and bagged yard waste
- Brush piles and overgrowth from bed and lot clearing
- Garden waste, old mulch, and spent plantings
- Small stumps already cut and out of the ground
- Fallen fruit, pinecones, and seasonal yard litter
- Yard debris mixed with old patio furniture, fencing, or fixtures (see light demolition for the structures)
What we won’t take
- Tree cutting, trimming, or climbing — that's a tree service; we haul after the cutting is done
- Whole standing trees, leaning trees, or large logs requiring felling or milling
- Large stump grinding or stump removal from the ground
- Bulk soil, dirt, sod, rock, gravel, or concrete fill (heavy clean fill is a separate hauling scope)
- Hazardous yard chemicals — pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers in bulk, or treated-wood ash
Pricing
How pricing works on these jobs.
Yard-debris pricing is based on volume — how much of the truck the load fills. A few bags and a small brush pile is the lightest version of this job. A whole-yard cleanup, a season's worth of pine straw, or post-project brush that fills the bed is priced by the truck-load, and multi-load jobs are priced per load.
Access and material factor in. Debris staged at the curb or the driveway loads faster than debris carried out from a back corner of the lot; clean brush loads faster than a pile that has to be sorted from mixed junk. We give you a real number after photos or a quick walkthrough — we don't quote a flat per-yard rate that pretends every pile is the same.
And we'll tell you when the county is the better deal. If Glynn County or McIntosh County curbside collection fits your timeline and stays within their limits, that's the cheapest path and we'll say so. Honest answers cost us a load and earn the next one.
Yard debris vs. storm and hurricane debris
These are two different jobs and we keep them on separate pages on purpose. Yard-debris removal is the routine, year-round, non-emergency work: the trim pile, the seasonal leaves and pine straw, the hedge cutback, the post-project brush. It's planned, it's priced by the truck-load, and it runs on a normal schedule.
Storm and hurricane debris removal is event-driven surge work — the heavy clearing after a named storm, when yards are full of downed limbs, fence sections are leaning, and water-damaged contents are coming out. That work runs in waves over weeks, coordinates with county curbside storm collection, and is its own category.
If a storm just came through, our storm and hurricane debris removal is the page you want. If it's a regular trim, a seasonal cleanup, or a landscaping pile, you're in the right place. When a job blurs the line, we sort it on the call and route it the honest way.
Post-landscaping and post-tree-service cleanup
A lot of yard-debris work is the haul that comes after someone else did the cutting. A landscaper overhauls the beds, a lawn-care crew does a heavy cutback, a tree service trims or takes down a tree — and there's a pile left that someone has to move. We're the crew that moves it.
We don't do the tree work itself. Cutting, trimming, and climbing are a tree service's job, and we come in after the branches are on the ground and cut to length. Often the tree service coordinates the haul with us directly, or we schedule alongside so the cutting and the clearing happen back to back.
For landscapers and lawn-care operators who'd rather not tie up a truck and a crew hauling, recurring or on-call clearing keeps your debris moving without it becoming your logistics problem.
Seasonal cleanups in coastal Georgia
The coastal Georgia yard produces year-round. Pine straw piles up by the season, live oaks and pines drop steadily, palm fronds come down with the wind, and the long growing season means there's always something to clear. Seasonal cleanup is the rhythm of this work — the fall leaf clearing, the spring bed cleanup, the periodic pine-straw haul.
We handle these as scheduled, single-trip jobs for most properties, and as recurring or multi-trip work for larger lots, HOAs, and property managers. The volume sets the schedule.
Clean seasonal green waste routes to yard-waste recycling where possible. When the county curbside schedule fits your timeline and volume, we'll point you to it — it's the cheapest path for routine seasonal clearing that stays within the curbside limits.
When the yard cleanup includes a fence or a structure
Yard cleanups often turn up more than green waste — a leaning fence section, a collapsed garden structure, an old raised bed, a derelict shed in the back corner. We can clear those in the same visit, but the structure part is light-demolition work, not yard debris.
The distinction matters for scope and pricing. Loose brush, clippings, and fronds are yard debris, priced by volume. A fence to pull, a shed to take down, or a structure to demolish is light demolition — disassembled and hauled — and we scope that part accordingly. Our light-demolition page covers fences, sheds, gazebos, playsets, and the rest of the outdoor structures.
Tell us what's in the yard when you call and we'll scope both parts together so it's one coordinated visit with an honest, itemized number.
In this category
Items we haul under yard & storm debris.
- Patio Furniture RemovalSee patio furniture removal details →
- Fence RemovalSee fence removal details →
- Fire Pit RemovalSee fire pit removal details →
- Grill & BBQ RemovalSee grill & bbq removal details →
- Raised Garden Bed RemovalSee raised garden bed removal details →
- Shed DisposalSee shed disposal details →
- Tire DisposalSee tire disposal details →
- Scrap Metal RemovalSee scrap metal removal details →
Where we run this work
Cities where yard & storm debris runs high-volume.
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Last reviewed: June 27, 2026