Downed limbs, an overgrown yard, a brush pile that laughs at the township's 4-foot rule — loaded off your property and hauled to be mulched, not left to rot.
A yard makes debris on its own schedule, and it’s almost never the township’s. A summer thunderstorm drops a limb across the back lawn on a Tuesday; the brush collection you’d count on is weeks out. A hedgerow you’ve been meaning to deal with finally gets dealt with, and now there’s a mound of it taller than the fence. You buy a place where the previous owner clearly stopped caring about the yard around 2019. None of that fits neatly into “cut it to four feet, tie it in bundles, under fifty pounds, no bags.”
That’s the whole reason a hauler exists alongside the town program. The township handles the small, staged, cut-to-spec stuff that’s included in your taxes. We handle everything that’s too big, too much, too soon, or too mixed — and we do the loading, which is the part that actually eats a weekend.
Knowing the township’s limits saves you money, so it’s worth being precise. Cherry Hill’s brush and yard-waste collection is real and useful, and it runs on tight specs:
Those specs and dates move, so if your pile does fit the rules, confirm the current schedule with Cherry Hill Public Works at (856) 424-4422 before you drag anything to the curb. The moment your situation lands outside those limits, though — which is more often than people expect — a hauling crew is the right call.
Cherry Hill has a storm resume. The remnants of Ida in September 2021 put trees and wires down across town; the June 2012 derecho knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of South Jersey homes for the better part of a week. And the town’s mature tree canopy — the big oaks and maples shading the older Barclay Farm and Kingston Estates streets — is exactly what comes down when the wind gets serious.
Here’s the part that catches homeowners flat: when a storm drops a tree in your yard and it doesn’t hit anything, the cleanup is on you. Insurance generally won’t cover a downed tree that damaged nothing, and the township can’t send crews onto private property to remove it. PSE&G, when it clears limbs off the power lines, routinely cuts them and leaves the wood behind. So the pile just sits — getting heavier, growing mold, and turning into the next storm’s projectile. We prioritize storm debris for that reason, and because fresh wood is lighter, loads faster, and costs less than a pile that’s soaked through two more rainstorms while you waited on it. (After major storms the township has sometimes run special debris collections with relaxed rules — one quick call to Public Works tells you if one’s active after yours.)
New Jersey keeps yard waste out of the regular trash stream on purpose, and we run every load that way. Clean vegetative material — brush, branches, leaves, the green stuff — goes to composting and mulching facilities, not a landfill. We keep that clean material separate from any heavy or mixed debris in the same load, so the vegetation actually gets composted and only genuine non-recyclables reach an approved disposal facility. Everything moves on properly registered, insured trucks, the way the state’s transporter rules require. It’s better for the county, and separating the streams usually helps your price too.
Volume sets the base — the share of the truck your debris fills — with a fair minimum for small clears. What nudges it up is weight and difficulty: waterlogged wood, and especially dirt, sod, and stumps, are heavy and get flagged and priced honestly upfront rather than sprung on you at the end. A loose tangle that has to be cut down loads slower than a neat pile, and easy truck access beats a long carry from a back corner near the Cooper River flats. However it shakes out, the order is always the same: free estimate first, firm number before we load, no drift afterward.
We work Cherry Hill and the towns around it — Haddonfield and Haddon Township to the west, Voorhees and Marlton down Route 70, Mount Laurel along the county line. If your yard is carrying a storm’s worth of limbs, a season’s worth of overgrowth, or a brush pile that ignores the 4-foot rule, request your free estimate. We’ll haul it, mulch what we can, and leave you a yard instead of a chore.
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Use the township when your pile fits its rules — it's already in your taxes. But Cherry Hill's brush collection has firm limits: branches have to be cut to 4 feet or less, bundled and tied, and kept under 50 pounds a bundle, with trunk sections no more than 2 feet long and 6 inches across. No plastic bags. We're for everything that doesn't fit that box — the oversized wood, the storm mess that can't wait, the whole-yard clear, and the labor of actually loading it.
Usually neither, and it catches people off guard. If a tree or limb falls in your yard without hitting a house or car, the cleanup is generally the homeowner's responsibility — insurance typically won't pay for a tree that damaged nothing, and township crews don't come onto private property to haul it. Even PSE&G, when it clears branches off the lines, tends to leave the cut wood behind. That gap is exactly what we clear, and we treat storm debris as priority work.
No — the 4-foot lengths, the tie-it-in-bundles, the under-50-pounds routine are the township's requirements, not ours. We take the pile loose and as-is: long limbs, whole branches, tangled brush, a heaped mound. We cut down what we need to on-site and load it. The entire point is that you skip the prep.
Yes, though stumps are their own line item. Grinding or pulling a stump is separate from hauling brush — they're dense, soil-packed, and heavy. Tell us it's part of the job and we'll price it into the estimate instead of surprising you. Extra stumps beyond the first usually run less each.
It does — the township runs a seasonal loose-leaf program in the fall, and those dates shift year to year, so confirm the current schedule with Public Works at (856) 424-4422 before you rake to the curb. If your timing doesn't line up with the collection window, or you've got leaves mixed in with brush and branches, we'll take the whole pile in one go.
It does, and it trips people up. Dirt, sod, rock, and soil aren't 'yard waste' — they're heavy fill, the composting sites won't take them as vegetation, and disposal often goes by weight. So we flag heavy material upfront and quote it honestly rather than letting it blow up the bill at the end.
That's some of our favorite work. Long-vacant properties, rental turnovers, estates, and yards that got away from someone over a few seasons — we clear the whole thing: brush, hedgerows, vines, downed wood, and the junk that always turns up hiding in the overgrowth. One visit, one firm price, and you get a yard back.
Often within a day or two, and same-day when the schedule allows — and with yard waste, faster is genuinely cheaper, because fresh piles are lighter and load quicker than rain-soaked ones. Pricing is by volume: how much of the truck your debris fills, with heavy material like soil and stumps flagged separately. Free estimate first, firm number before we load.
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