Taking Ground Back
Land does not stay open on its own around here. Stop mowing a field edge for five years and you have volunteer locust and mulberry. Give it fifteen and you have a thicket of honeysuckle and multiflora rose you cannot walk through, let alone get a tractor into.
Clearing it is not complicated work, but it is heavy work, and it goes badly without the right equipment. We bring the skid steer, the grapple, the saws and the trailers, and we work through it methodically until the ground is usable again.
What We Clear
- Volunteer timber, scrub trees and saplings
- Honeysuckle, multiflora rose, autumn olive and other invasive thickets
- Deadfall, blowdown and old brush piles
- Overgrown fence rows and property lines
- Stumps, root balls and surface roots
- Old wire, posts, and the junk that always turns up in a fence row
Lot Clearing
City lots and vacant parcels get cleared down to a clean, mowable, buildable surface. This is common work for us on:
- Building sites — clearing the footprint, the drive, and the working room a contractor needs around it
- Properties being sold — an overgrown lot costs real money at closing and scares off buyers who cannot see what they are looking at
- Code compliance — when the city has sent a letter about an overgrown parcel
- Inherited and estate properties — places nobody has been able to get to for a while
Overgrown Lots & Acreage Cleanup
Bought five acres that have not been touched in fifteen years? Have a back forty that got away from you? This is the work we enjoy most, because the before-and-after is dramatic.
We usually walk it with you first and agree on what stays. Good hardwoods, a shade tree by the house, a windbreak, a den tree for wildlife — those get flagged and worked around. Everything else comes out. On bigger parcels we often phase the work: open the access lanes first so equipment can get in efficiently, then work through the interior in sections.
Common goals we clear for: pasture and grazing, food plots and hunting access, restoring a fence line, opening up a view, room for a shop or grain setup, or simply being able to walk your own property again.
Skid Steer & Grapple Work
The grapple bucket is what makes this economical. Instead of hand-dragging brush to a pile, the machine picks up an entire tree top at once and sets it in the trailer. On big jobs it is the difference between a week and two days — and the savings land on your invoice, not just our schedule.
We also use the skid steer to backfill stump holes, smooth out ruts, level the ground behind us, and move log rounds you want to keep for firewood. When we pull off the property, the ground is ready for whatever comes next.
What You Get At The End
Ground you can mow, drive on, or build on. Brush chipped or hauled, stumps ground or removed depending on the plan, the good trees still standing, and the ruts smoothed out. We will tell you honestly up front what is realistic for the budget and what will take a second phase.