Brush Chipper Service

Brush Chipper is a free service to Township residents. It is designed to handle typical residential type yard trimmings. It is not designed to pick up excessive amounts of tree trimmings left by tree services performing residential trimming or clearing.

Please call the "Brush Line" number (522-2140), no later than Sunday before the week of your pickup. Pickup starts on Monday and continues through Friday of each week and runs from the second week of April through the second week of November each year. Brush must be at the curb by 7:00 am Monday morning.

All limbs, vines and brush smaller than one inch in diameter, must be tied with string or cord in bundles not to exceed one foot in diameter or four feet in length. Anything with thorns must also be in bundles. This allows passage and handling of smaller brush through the chipper opening.

Bundles larger than one foot in diameter cannot pass through the chipper opening.

Do not tie the bundles with wire or electric cord as this will damage chipper and blades.

Due to the large amount of area one truck and one crew covers within the week and to help with the speed and easy handling of brush, all limbs should be neatly stacked at the curb with all cut ends facing the same direction.

To allow chipper blades to grab limbs without side branches getting caught, large limbs should have side branches removed four feet back from the cut end of limbs so the branches can reach the blades.

Sorry, NO stumps or roots, NO limbs over six inches in diameter and NO old firewood or fence posts can be put through the chipper.

Please check to see that there are no nails or metal of any kind mixed in with brush. (This will cause damage to chipper).

We are sorry but your brush will not be picked up for the following reason(s):

• not tied in bundles
• tied with wire or electric cord
• bundles or limbs too large for chipper
• stumps or roots
• firewood or fence post
• sticker bushes not bundled
• cut ends not facing the same direction