Hedge Cutting in Old Trafford
Hedge cutting with tree surgery kit behind it, from a tidy annual trim to a 30 foot leylandii row cut down in sections. All the green waste goes with us when we leave. Around two miles from our Stretford base.
Hedge Cutting for Old Trafford Gardens
Short front gardens rule the hedge work in Old Trafford. The bay-fronted streets off Ayres Road and Seymour Grove often hold a privet hedge and little else between the bay and the pavement, so hedge cutting here is small, frequent and tight to the footpath: keeping privet dense, square and out of the way on streets with plenty of people walking past.
We cover Old Trafford and the surrounding area: Trafford Bar, Brooks Bar, Seymour Grove, Ayres Road, Gorse Hill and beyond (M16).
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What’s Included
Rear boundaries in Old Trafford are a different job altogether: leylandii and laurel planted for privacy between yards and along the back entries, then left until they are stealing light from two or three houses at once. We reduce and reshape where the hedge can take it, and we are straight with you when it cannot, because leylandii will not regrow from old brown wood and a hard cut in the wrong place is permanent.
- Maintenance trims that keep garden hedges square, dense and tidy
- Hard height and width reductions on hedges that have got away
- Overgrown leylandii and conifer rows taken down in sections, chainsaw and rope work included
- Straight answers on conifers before we quote: brown wood will not regrow
- Full hedge removals, with stump grinding for the stumps and roots
- Nest checks before every cut in season, clippings cleared and taken away
How It Works
Hedge Cutting in Old Trafford, FAQs
Twice a year keeps most privet dense and sharp, once in early summer and once in early autumn. Between February and August we check the hedge for active nests before starting, and a privet full of sparrows is common on these streets, so the check is never a formality.
Only within limits. We can bring the height and faces back as far as live green growth, but leylandii cut past the green stays brown for good. If the hedge is mostly bare wood inside, removal and a fence or a fresh hedge is usually the better spend, and we will tell you which side of that line yours sits when we quote.
Yes, with a check first. Nesting season runs roughly February to August, and an active nest is protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, so damaging one is a criminal offence. The law doesn’t stop hedge cutting in those months, it stops cutting through live nests. We search the hedge before we start, and if there’s a nest in use we cut around it or book the job in again once the young have gone.
Always, and it’s in the price, not an extra. Hedge work makes a surprising volume of waste, especially a conifer reduction where whole tops are coming off. Everything gets chipped or loaded, the lawn is raked, the paths are swept, and you’re left with a hedge, not a hedge plus a mountain of clippings.
Yes. The hedge comes down to ground level and gets carted away, then the stumps are ground out below the surface with a stump grinder. Grinding takes out the stumps and the main root plate so you can replant, seed a lawn or run a fence line through, though the finer roots stay in the ground and rot down naturally. If you want the line replanted with something better behaved than leylandii, we’ll advise on that when we quote.