Hedge Cutting in Stretford
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. Our home base.
Hedge Cutting for Stretford Gardens
Privet built Stretford’s front gardens. The 1930s semis around Lostock and Humphrey Park still carry their original hedges, and decades of half-hearted trims leave a lot of them tall, hollow in the middle and fat over the pavement. We cut privet back hard where it will take it, it nearly always will, then keep it dense and square with a trim once or twice a year.
We cover Stretford and the surrounding area: Gorse Hill, Lostock, Firswood, Trafford Bar, Humphrey Park and beyond (M32).
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What’s Included
Leylandii causes more arguments in Stretford than any other hedge. Screens planted for privacy between close-set gardens shoot past ten feet and start robbing light from both sides of the fence. We reduce and reshape conifer hedges to a height you can maintain, and we’re straight about the limit: cut leylandii back beyond the green growth and it won’t recover, so if a hedge is too far gone we’ll recommend removal and a fresh start rather than butchering it.
- 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 Stretford, FAQs
It depends where the green growth stops. Leylandii won’t shoot back from bare wood, so if there’s live growth below your target height we can reduce it and keep it tidy from then on. If it’s brown at that level, removal and replanting is the better spend. We’ll tell you which at the free quote, and every scrap of cuttings leaves with us.
Hedge cutting isn’t banned in the nesting season, but active nests are protected by law, so from February to August we check the hedge carefully before a blade goes near it. If we find a nest mid-job, that section waits until the birds have fledged. Hard reductions we prefer to book for autumn and winter anyway, it’s kinder to the hedge.
That is exactly the work we’re set up for. Once the stems have thickened into trunks and the height is past 15 foot or so, it stops being a hedgetrimmer job and becomes tree work: sectional cutting, ropes and someone comfortable running a chainsaw at height. One thing worth knowing: in a conservation area, any stem wider than 75mm measured at 1.5m up needs six weeks’ written notice to the council before work, and an old hedge row can easily include stems that size. We check that for you and handle the paperwork.
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.