Yard debris removal for brush, limbs and old fencing

Each city wants yard waste a certain way. Bryan wants brush cut into pieces no longer than eight feet, kept in a pile separate from bulky items, and set at least five feet from fences, cars, hydrants and meters. College Station also won't take a pile that mixes brush with bulky items. Its own pages give different limits on brush length, so check with the city before you stack.

Navasota picks up yard waste on a rotating schedule. Each pile can be at most 10 cubic yards, logs can be no thicker than 12 inches, and stumps aren't taken. Yard waste there can't be mixed with fencing, lumber or metal.

Outside city limits, don't guess. Brazos County spells out what its rural sites accept on its trash collection page, and that can change from year to year.

The rules make sense for a city truck. They're a lot of work for you. Fence boards with nails, a pile of limbs too long to drag, brush mixed with an old grill and a broken trampoline: none of that goes out in one tidy pile.

ME3 Junk Solutions takes it as it lies. No cutting to length and no separating. The crew loads brush, bagged leaves, fence sections and outdoor junk in the same trip, and rakes up the spot where the pile sat. If you're in College Station, see yard debris removal in College Station for the local details.

Yards collect more than limbs. A trampoline with a torn mat, a rusted swing set, a dog run, a grill that won't light, a pile of old fence pickets behind the shed. Most of it is too big for the trash cart and too mixed for the city's yard waste piles.

Loose fence boards and outdoor junk go right in the trailer with the brush. A fence still standing, or a playset still anchored in the ground, takes tear-down first, and that's light demolition.

Storm cleanup is where yard debris jobs get big. Beryl's remnants brought a 59 mph peak gust to the College Station area in July 2024, and almost 6,000 BTU customers lost power at some point. After a night like that, every street has a brush pile.

Take photos for your insurance before anything is moved. Then text photos of the pile for a range. More on what to do first is in storm debris cleanup in the Brazos Valley.

Stay clear of downed power lines, and leave anything still tangled in a line for the utility. Limbs hung up in a tree are a job for a tree service. Once it's all on the ground, it can be loaded.

Brush is light but bulky, so it's priced by the trailer space it takes. A loose pile of limbs takes more room than you'd think. Dirt, sod, rock and broken concrete are a different matter: they're heavy and quoted separately by weight and handling.

Long carries from a back corner of the lot, or a gate too narrow for a wheelbarrow, add labor, and that's settled before the work starts. See the pricing page.

Navasota residents can also take yard waste to the city's Brush Collection Facility on Saturdays with a current utility bill and a driver's license. That works if you have a truck and a free Saturday. If you don't, Navasota sits inside ME3 Junk Solutions' standard service area. See junk removal in Navasota.