Tree Debris Haul-Away in Asheville

The storm's been gone for two years and there's still a brush pile at the back of your property. We get it — Buncombe County's debris contractors prioritized roads first, and plenty of private parcels never made the list. That pile is our job now.

The Debris Situation After Helene

Hurricane Helene's tree damage was measured in the tens of thousands of downed or damaged trees across Buncombe County alone. The emergency response did what it had to do: cleared roads, restored power, made corridors passable. What that meant in practice was that enormous volumes of woody debris got pushed to roadside ROWs or left stacked where it fell on private land, with promises of follow-up pickup that the sheer volume made slow.

Two years on, here's what we still see on properties across the area: roadside-style brush piles that the county never collected (or partially collected), whole downed logs too big for any chipper, root balls the size of trucks, and windrows of slash from homeowners who cut their own cleanup paths and ran out of steam — or out of truck. It's nobody's fault; it was simply more wood than the system could absorb. But it does need to go: debris piles harbor pests, invite invasive plants, dry into genuine fire risk by late summer, and keep you from actually using your land again.

What We Haul — and How

• Brush and limb piles. Chipped on site with our own drum chippers; chips can stay with you as mulch (genuinely useful on mountain plantings) or ride away in the truck.
• Logs and heavy timber. Storm-fallen logs get bucked, loaded, and hauled. If you've got firewood-quality hardwood (oak, poplar, hickory), we can stack it for your use or connect it with a local firewood buyer — no sense landfilling good fuel.
• Root balls and stumps-in-debris. Heaved root plates from Helene-era uprooted trees often sat where they fell. We extract, process, and haul them as part of a clearing or cleanup scope.
• Haul-away from our own jobs. Every removal, clearing, or storm job we do leaves the site broom-clean — chips raked, logs loaded, nothing staged "for later."
• Green-waste disposal done right. Loads go to regional green-waste and composting facilities, not dumped over a bank (you'd be surprised what we've been asked to do — the answer is always no).

Access: Getting Trucks Where the Debris Is

Mountain properties hold their debris in the same places that make it hard to reach — below the house on the downhill slope, up an old logging trace, behind the rhododendron. Our trucks and chippers handle most driveways; for the rest, we stage at the road and move material to the truck with tracked carriers or good old-fashioned rigging. Tell us about access when you call and we'll bring the right configuration the first time — which keeps the per-load price we quote the price you pay.

Debris Haul-Away Pricing (2026)