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Wood Chipper Hire in Johannesburg
Wood chipper for hire in Johannesburg: plant and tool hire yards around Johannesburg rent towed chippers by the day, some with delivery or an operator. Check your tow bar and licence, measure your thickest branches and book ahead in pruning season, when chippers are in demand.
The main wood chipper hire page explains the work, the safety points and the costs in more detail.
What to know locally in Johannesburg
Hire shops along Main Reef Road and in the south of the city rent petrol chainsaws, towable chippers and walk-behind stump grinders by the day. For the tall canopy in Emmarentia and Parktown, a cherry picker with a 15 m or higher working height is often hired with an operator. Bring your ID for the deposit, and buy cut-resistant trousers and a helmet with a face screen before you start any saw work.
What grows around Johannesburg
Johannesburg is often called one of the largest planted urban forests in the world, and most of that canopy sits in the old northern suburbs. Parktown, Houghton, Saxonwold, Parkview and Melville grew up under plane trees, English oaks, pin oaks, jacarandas and towering bluegums planted a century ago. Many are now old, top heavy and sharing small stands with houses, walls and overhead cables. The shot hole borer beetle has weakened plane trees in parts of the city, and summer thunderstorms bring down limbs that were already dying. Homeowners ask for crown reductions, deadwood removal and sectional felling over roofs. Street trees usually belong to the city, so check with the municipality before anyone cuts a pavement tree.
Typical wood chipper hire requests in the area come from:
- Homeowners: chipping a big pile of prunings after the jacaranda or plane tree is cut back
- Estates, complexes and body corporates: a day or two of chipping after the complex's annual tree trimming
- Schools, churches and municipalities: parks, schools and churches clearing storm branches without truck loads
Local tips for Johannesburg
Common here: sectional felling and crown reduction of century old planes, oaks and bluegums. Ask each team or supplier about this: ask whether the tree is a pavement tree and who has to give permission first. Where they work from: teams based in Randburg, Roodepoort and the south, travelling into the northern suburbs.
Around Johannesburg the largest group asking is homeowners, which usually means chipping a big pile of prunings after the jacaranda or plane tree is cut back. Before you agree to anything: stop bar, eye and ear protection, no reaching. The trees to watch here: old plane trees, English and pin oaks, bluegums and large jacarandas.
Service area: Johannesburg and surrounds
Tree fellers, hire yards and suppliers on our network work in Johannesburg and surrounding areas, including Sandton, Randburg, Roodepoort, Soweto, Rosebank, Fourways, Melville. Give the suburb and a rough idea of the job, so the quote can allow for travel and the right crew and machines.