The Fox Mowing gentleman was so polite and did a brilliant job on my yard. I have already recommended him to my neighbours.
Fox Mowing ACT looks after the rural blocks of Williamsdale on the Monaro Highway at the Territory's southern border, with ride-on and slashing gear for acreage, long grass and fire-season cuts.
Fox Mowing ACT mows and slashes right across Williamsdale, the rural locality on the Monaro Highway where the Territory meets New South Wales, postcode 2620. The old Bombala railway line runs through here too; the station closed in 1975. The ACT side had a population of 43 at the 2021 census, with the rest of the locality across the border, and the whole stretch is rural leases and bush blocks between the Murrumbidgee and the state line. Since 2017 the most visible neighbour has been the solar farm beside the highway, its panels tracking the sun across the paddock next to the road.
The ground under Williamsdale is volcanic — dacite and tuff running in a band along the highway, with different volcanics east and west towards Angle Crossing — and it weathers to soil that dries out hard in a Monaro summer. Blocks here are acreage, not quarter-acres, and the work is what you would expect: house lawns around the homestead, long grass on the flats, driveways, boundary lines and a firm cut before fire season. We book Williamsdale in runs with our southern Tuggeranong operators.
Book your free Williamsdale quoteA homestead lawn beside the highway and a paddock running towards the river are priced separately, and both after a look.
Homestead lawns cut on a regular round through spring and summer, edged along the drive, paths and beds. See lawn mowing and lawn edging for what a standard visit covers.
Properties fronting the Monaro Highway get seen by everyone passing. A tidy verge, mown entrance and trimmed fence line are quick jobs we can add to a regular round.
Paddocks, tracks and boundary strips on Williamsdale leases are done with ride-on and slashing equipment, quoted once we have walked the block.
Open Monaro country cures early in a dry year. We cut hard around houses, sheds and fence lines in November, before the grass turns to standing fuel.
There is not much shelter along the highway, and the westerlies come across unbroken. House lawns get a higher summer cut and drought protection advice before the heat arrives.
A block left over a wet spring goes to seed by Christmas. Staged slashing, then a finishing pass, gets it back to something you can walk across.
Gardens on Williamsdale blocks are built around shelter. Windbreaks against the westerlies, hedges to screen the highway noise and a few hardy beds by the house are the usual pattern, and all of them need a regular hand. Our operators look after hedging and pruning, tree trimming, mulching and garden clean-ups here from $70 a visit.
On this exposed ground, mulch goes on early — before the heat, not after — and pruning is timed so the shelter belt stays dense at the base where it blocks the wind. Dead wood and long grass are kept clear of the house and outbuildings as part of the fire-season tidy. For a lease or property changing hands, an end-of-lease or pre-sale tidy sorts the house garden and the entrance together.
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House lawns at Williamsdale start at the standard prices; slashing and acreage are quoted on the block. The pricing guide has the full list.
| Lawn service | Guide price from | Typical inclusions |
|---|---|---|
| Small maintained lawn — mow, edge & blow | From $50 | A small kept lawn around the house with access from the drive. |
| Medium to large — mow, edges & blow | From $70-$150+ | Larger homestead lawns, edges and trimming around sheds and fences, hard surfaces blown down. |
| Gardening basic visit | From $70 | Shelter-belt and hedge pruning, bed weeding and early mulching on the house garden. |
| Overgrown lawn recovery | From $100-$250+ | Seeded, standing grass around buildings, slashed in stages and dealt with. |
| Acreage / ride-on / slashing | Quoted on site | Paddocks, tracks, fire breaks and highway frontages across Williamsdale, done with a ride-on or slasher. |
Important: These are Williamsdale guide prices. Rural quotes depend on hectares, grass height, slope, rocks, gates and how far the gear travels down the Monaro Highway.
We price rural blocks after walking them, not from the highway.
Operators who will drive to the border with the right gear.
Our operators are based around Gordon, Banks and Conder and cover Williamsdale, Royalla and Tharwa on scheduled rural runs.
House lawns from $50, gardening from $70, and acreage quoted in writing after a walk of the block.
All our operators are insured and police-checked, which counts when they are on your property and you are at work in town.
Verge, entrance and house lawn left neat, slashed paddocks even, nothing dumped against a fence.
Big cut before fire season, growing-season visits as needed, and not much through the frozen months.
Call 1800 FOX MOW or use the form with a rough block size, and we will add you to the next southern run for a walk-through.
This is open country at the bottom of the Territory, and it gets the weather first. Frost comes in May, sits hard through winter and can still be on the ground in late September, so warm-season grass on the flats stays brown and flat for five months. There is little tree cover to slow the wind, so the drying westerlies in spring and summer hit lawns and shelter belts head on. Growth comes on quickly in October with the spring rain peak and the soil finally warming, and by November we want the fire-break cut done around buildings before the December heat cures the paddocks. Through summer the house lawn gets a higher cut and deep early watering within the ACT rules; in autumn a fertilising feed and lawn repairs or top dressing go in before the first hard frost so the lawn goes into winter with some reserves.
We mow right across Tuggeranong — Banks, Gordon, Conder, Calwell, Bonython, Chisholm, Gilmore and Fadden among them, along with the rural blocks of Royalla, Tharwa, Tennent and Paddys River — and across the wider Tuggeranong district. Nearby? Ask and we will sort a local operator.
The Fox Mowing gentleman was so polite and did a brilliant job on my yard. I have already recommended him to my neighbours.
They were very accommodating to my tight deadline for the initial work that I have decided to make it a permanent mowing job every fortnight. Our yard has never looked better. Great people, great experience. Would highly recommend them.
What a great company. Its really refreshing to get a mowing job done where you as a person feel looked after. Will use them again on an ongoing basis. Please try them, you will be glad you did.
My initial mowing job was quite a difficult task for the person from Fox Mowing as the grass was tall. However, the skill and patience he showed was admirable. He took his time and made sure that the yard was brought to its original glory days. Cannot recommend them highly enough. They truly are a cut above the rest.
Fox gave me a quote, made an arrangement, set the time and date, and was here on time and did what we discussed. Would use Fox again for sure.
Chris was very accommodating to my tight deadline. Extremely happy with both the customer service and the work undertaken.
A small kept house lawn on a Williamsdale block starts from $50, larger homestead lawns, edged, trimmed and blown, are $70 to $150+, garden work is from $70 and seed-head recovery from $100 to $250+. Paddocks, fire breaks and highway frontages are quoted on site, since Williamsdale is acreage country and hectares, grass height and terrain set the price.
Yes. Slashing paddocks, tracks, boundary lines and fire breaks on rural blocks along the Monaro Highway at Williamsdale is the core of what our operators do here, with the slasher and ride-on trailered down on scheduled runs from Gordon, Banks and Conder.
Cut it higher and water it deep and early. Williamsdale sits in open, wind-exposed country with volcanic soil that dries hard, and the westerlies in December and January pull moisture out of a short lawn fast. Keeping the house lawn at 50 mm or more, watering about 25 mm two or three times a week before 9 am within the ACT rules, and maintaining a windbreak on the western side all give a Williamsdale lawn a fighting chance.
We can. Shelter-belt and hedge pruning, mulching, bed weeding and clearing dead wood from around the house are handled by our operators on Williamsdale properties from $70 a visit, and it is normally folded into the slashing visit.
Yes. Leased and absentee-owned blocks at Williamsdale can be kept on a standing seasonal booking so the house lawn is mown, the paddocks are slashed before summer and the entrance off the Monaro Highway stays tidy, with a photo sent when each job is done.
Phone 1800 369 669 or send the form with a rough idea of the block size. A Fox Mowing ACT operator from the southern end of the Tuggeranong district will book a walk-through on the next run down the Monaro Highway, because rural Williamsdale blocks are priced on the ground.