What gets cut

Three kinds of overgrowth, and what each one takes

Most jobs are one of these three and plenty are two of them in the same visit. The machines and the rate do not change; what changes is how much ground an hour covers.

The back garden of a red brick semi left through a summer, long grass and weeds up around a rotary washing line and an old bench, with bramble coming over the fence

Overgrown garden strimming and clearance

A garden that has stood for a season or several, cut down to ground level in one visit and raked off so you can see what you have got.

Cutting standing grass, weeds and light scrub down to short stubble
Working carefully around washing lines, drain covers, borders and anything you have flagged
Strimming out around sheds, trees, posts and the base of fences
Raking the cut material into windrows

Overgrown gardens

A dense thicket of woody bramble and nettle grown up over an old fence post and wire at the edge of a Devon field, with only the top of the post still showing

Brambles, nettles and bracken brush cutting

Woody, thorny growth taken down with a metal blade: bramble thickets, standing nettle beds, bracken slopes and light scrub that has taken over.

Cutting woody bramble down to the crown with a metal brush blade
Dragging and stacking the cut material as the work goes, not at the end
Nettle beds and docks cut low, with the crowns left exposed
Bracken cut on slopes, with a second cut later in the season if you want one

Brambles and bracken

A single track Devon lane with the bank and verge on one side freshly cut back to bare red soil and pale stubble, standing grass and cow parsley still up on the other

Banks, verges, paddocks and field edges

The ground a mower cannot get to: steep hedgebanks, roadside verges, paddock and field margins, hedge bases, fence lines and the awkward strip round the edge.

Steep hedgebanks cut back to the face, top and sides
Roadside verges and lane edges cut back to the boundary line
Paddock and field margins taken back to recover the grazing
Around stable blocks, field shelters, water troughs and gateways

Banks and paddocks

See the hourly rate

Book a clearance with Exeter Strimming Services

Send a postcode, a rough size and a couple of photographs. Sam Hembury will come back with an estimate in hours and the next dates available.

Book a clearance Call 07366 321657 info@hemburycontracting.co.uk