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Vegetation Control, Wood Chipping & Land Clearing Across Christchurch & Canterbury

HMR Contracting delivers professional vegetation management, high-output wood chipping, land clearing, excavation, and rural access services across Christchurch, Selwyn, Banks Peninsula, and wider Canterbury. Our specialised machinery and experienced operators ensure safe, clean, and efficient results on farms, lifestyle blocks, subdivisions, and commercial projects.

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Trusted Specialists in Difficult Terrain & Tight-Access Work

As a family-owned business, HMR Contracting is built on reliability, safety, and practical problem-solving. We handle full end-to-end clearing and excavation work, from vegetation control and site preparation through to chipping, shredding, contouring, access tracks, and clean-up. Every job is completed with care, accuracy, and a commitment to high standards.

SiteWise Gold (100% score)

Fully Insured

Purpose-built machinery

Skilled and certified operators

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Our Services

Vegetation
Control

Professional tree work, hedges, mulching, stump removal, root raking, and large-scale vegetation clearance for residential, rural, and commercial sites.

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clearing land. cutting down trees. removing stumps

Land Clearing & Development

Clearing overgrown sites, contouring steep terrain, making access routes, and preparing land for subdivisions, fencing, planting, and development.

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Diggers ready for excavation and tree cutting

General
Excavation

1.7T–15T excavation for trenching, foundations, post installation, site preparation, and rural work with

a full range of attachments.

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Processing shredder / chipper machine processing vegetation waste and slash. Processing wood waste

Vegetation Processing & Chipping

High-output mobile wood chipping, shredding, and vegetation waste processing for forestry, councils, contractors, and landowners.

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shredder for mulching greenwaste, trees, hedges, vegetation

Demolition & Recycling

Safe rural and residential demolition

with responsible recycling of timber, concrete, steel,

and mixed materials.

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Recent Projects

Property Access, Le Bons Bay.

This project involved the removal of a collapsed bridge, followed by the supply and installation of new bridge beams. Additionally, new buttresses were excavated and placed on both sides of the bridge. We efficiently managed all aspects of transportation and on-site construction, including the development of approaches on either side of the bridge, ensuring timely completion of the project.

Land Clearing at Lyttleton.

This project presented us with several challenges, as we needed to clear a small wooded area for development. The site itself posed difficulties due to its steep terrain, extremely limited and narrow access points, and close proximity to existing houses. However, our highly skilled team devised a solution and successfully cleared the site, exceeding the customer's expectations.

Steep-Site Tree Removal & Cleanup, at Ross Terrace, Lyttelton.

Project Overview HMR Contracting was engaged to complete a challenging tree-removal and site-cleanup project on a steep, narrow-access property at Ross Terrace in Lyttelton. The client needed experienced operators and specialised compact machinery capable of working safely where conventional equipment could not access. Location: Ross Terrace, Lyttelton Client Type: Private client Job Duration: 5 days Job Type: Tree removal, log extraction, slash processing, difficult-acce

What Our Clients Say

Dan, Tru-Line Civil

“Big thanks to Carlton and the team for recent shelter belt removal. They turned up when they said they would, were productive and completed the work to a very high standard with minimal supervision"

Harry, Lyttleton

“We engaged HMR Contracting to undertake a pine forestry clearance project...All in all, it was an impressive job, and we were satisfied with the final price. Good communications and good attitude. We have since engaged HMR to undertake other work, and are happy to recommend their service to anybody else who wants to actually get the job done”

Kate, Decanter Bay

“Our place has completely changed with the work that Carlton and his team did. It looks amazing. The breadth of work they were capable of was amazing and they did it all in an efficient manner and are really good people to deal with.”

Warwick, Prebbleton

“What a pleasure it was having HMR Contracting take down some big old and ugly Macrocarpa’s. The trees were very precariously situated along side and over our warehouse and woodshed which made the task of removing them somewhat tricky and delicate. The result was that they are now gone with no damage done to the structures that were beneath them which is a credit to the team and their patience.”

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0800 344 467

For quotes, site visits, and project enquiries, contact our team using the form below or call us directly. We service Christchurch, Selwyn, Banks Peninsula, and Canterbury.