How do I find out what my hedges cost?

Describe the row when you call and you get a number for it. Two rows with the same number of bushes can still be different jobs, depending on how long since anyone cut them. Say how many bushes, how tall they stand, and when they were last cut, and you get a price for your row.

What makes hedge work cheapest?

Putting it on the same trip as your pine straw, so it is one visit instead of two. Inside a 30 minute drive of Glennville you can book hedges on their own. Further out, they go on a straw visit. Either way, you get a separate price for the hedges.

What should I have ready when I call?

Three things, and rough answers are fine. How many bushes. Roughly how tall they stand now. When they were last cut.

Do the clippings get taken away?

Ask when you call. You settle the clippings along with the count, before any cutting starts.

What counts as debris cleanup?

Piles like these: limbs down after a storm, brush behind the shed, beds full of last year's leaves. There is no set price on it, so say what yours looks like when you call and you get a price for it.

Is there anything that is not taken on?

Ask on the phone before you plan on it. Pine straw, hedges and yard debris are the work; anything else is a different trade.

Can hedges and straw happen on the same day?

Yes, and that is the right order: hedges cut back first, then the straw underneath. The other way around means raking cut branches out of fresh straw.

A long run of hedges cut level, with fresh pine straw beneath them

Hedge trimming and debris cleanup

Hedges cut back, and debris cleaned up.

Pine straw is most of the work. Hedges can go on the same visit as your straw, with a price for your row.

Hedge trimming

Shrubs along the front of the house, a hedge run down the side, the boxwoods that have gotten away from you over the summer. They are cut back to shape. Ask about the clippings when you call, and you settle that before any cutting starts.

There is no set price on hedge work yet. A row kept up every year and a row nobody has touched in two years are different jobs, so say how many bushes, how tall they are, and when they were last cut, and you get a price for your row.

If yours is one long run rather than separate bushes, count it in sections about as wide as your arms can reach. Count each section as one bush. A rough number is fine, and you agree the count with Branden before anything starts.

Past a 30 minute drive from Glennville, hedges go on the same trip as your straw rather than a trip of their own. Inside 30 minutes, hedges on their own are fine.

Check how far out you are

A long run of hedges cut level, with a clean line of fresh pine straw beneath them

A pine stand with windrows of raked needles between the trunks and cut limbs on the ground

Debris cleanup

Limbs down after a storm, a pile of brush behind the shed, the beds full of last year's leaves.

No set price on this one. Say what is in the pile when you call and you get a price for it.

How a hedge job is priced

Pine straw is priced by the bale because a bale is a bale. Hedges are not that simple, so here is what goes into the number.

Describe the row

How many bushes there are, how tall they stand, and how long since anyone cut them. All three move the number.
You agree the count, then the price

How many bushes, and which ones. A corner nobody mentioned is how a hedge price goes wrong, so you count the bushes together, and you agree the number before any cutting starts.

The cheapest way to buy it

Ask about the hedges when you book your pine straw, not afterwards, so it is one visit instead of two. The trip on a straw order works like this. Inside a 30 minute drive of Glennville there is no charge for the trip. Past that it is a flat $150, paid once however many bales you order, whichever way you buy it. You get a separate price for the hedges.

Things people ask

How do I find out what my hedges cost?: Describe the row when you call and you get a number for it. Two rows with the same number of bushes can still be different jobs, depending on how long since anyone cut them. Say how many bushes, how tall they stand, and when they were last cut, and you get a price for your row.
What makes hedge work cheapest?: Putting it on the same trip as your pine straw, so it is one visit instead of two. Inside a 30 minute drive of Glennville you can book hedges on their own. Further out, they go on a straw visit. Either way, you get a separate price for the hedges.
What should I have ready when I call?: Three things, and rough answers are fine. How many bushes. Roughly how tall they stand now. When they were last cut.
Do the clippings get taken away?: Ask when you call. You settle the clippings along with the count, before any cutting starts.
What counts as debris cleanup?: Piles like these: limbs down after a storm, brush behind the shed, beds full of last year's leaves. There is no set price on it, so say what yours looks like when you call and you get a price for it.
Is there anything that is not taken on?: Ask on the phone before you plan on it. Pine straw, hedges and yard debris are the work; anything else is a different trade.
Can hedges and straw happen on the same day?: Yes, and that is the right order: hedges cut back first, then the straw underneath. The other way around means raking cut branches out of fresh straw.

While the truck is there

Pine straw, delivered and spread: the main work, priced by the bale. Hedges can go on the same visit.
How much straw the beds under those hedges take: worked out by pacing, no tape measure needed.
Where the truck goes: the drive time to your town, and whether it carries a trip charge.

Say how many bushes, how tall, and when they were last cut.

Call (912) 256-6051