Phoning around Midrand for the right machine and a fair rate takes time. Send one request instead, with what you need, the dates or how many, and we pass it to tool and plant hire yards who supply Midrand and nearby areas of Gauteng.
Wood Chipper Hire in Midrand
Wood chipper for hire in Midrand: plant and tool hire yards around Midrand 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.
Equipment & supplies in Midrand: local notes
Hire yards along the Old Pretoria Road and in Halfway House rent larger towable chippers and tracked stump grinders that suit plot work, as well as cherry pickers for tall gums. Kyalami farm owners clearing their own windbreaks should consider hiring an experienced feller for anything over roof height. Buy proper chainsaw safety gear, including chaps, boots and a helmet with ear muffs, before running any saw.
What grows around Midrand
Midrand sits between Johannesburg and Pretoria on land that was farms and smallholdings not long ago, and the trees still show it. Windbreaks of bluegums, rows of pines and old poplars along the Jukskei and its tributaries stand beside new office parks and estates. Waterfall and Carlswald are being built up fast, so developers ask for stands to be cleared, while the horse farms and plots of Kyalami and Glen Austin need gums felled away from stables and paddocks. Summer thunderstorms with lightning and hail are fierce on this open high ground, and wind takes out shallow rooted trees on newly cleared land. Check whether any indigenous tree on a development site is protected before it is removed.
Typical wood chipper hire requests in the area come from:
- Developers and building sites: chipping brush from a stand being cleared before building starts
- Estates, complexes and body corporates: a day or two of chipping after the complex's annual tree trimming
- Homeowners: chipping a big pile of prunings after the jacaranda or plane tree is cut back
Local tips for Midrand
Tree work, hire and supplies in Midrand mostly come from here: tree fellers on Kyalami and Glen Austin plots; hire yards along the Old Pretoria Road. The requests that come up most: clearing gum and pine windbreaks on plots and development stands. When you ask for quotes, ask whether the gum wood will be cut into logs for firewood or taken off the plot.
Around Midrand the largest group asking is developers and building sites, which usually means chipping brush from a stand being cleared before building starts. Before you agree to anything: stop bar, eye and ear protection, no reaching. The trees to watch here: bluegum and pine windbreaks, poplars, wattle and older garden jacarandas.
Service area: Midrand and surrounds
Tree fellers, hire yards and suppliers on our network work in Midrand and surrounding areas, including Waterfall, Kyalami, Halfway House, Vorna Valley, Carlswald, Noordwyk, Glen Austin. Give the suburb and a rough idea of the job, so the quote can allow for travel and the right crew and machines.