Forestry Mulching And Land Clearing in Cincinnati, OH

A dozer pushes brush and trees into piles, roots and topsoil included, and then the piles have to be burned or hauled away. A forestry mulcher cuts and grinds the brush where it stands and leaves it on the ground as mulch. The roots and topsoil stay put, and there's nothing left to burn or haul. Our forestry mulching page walks through the whole process.

The everyday work around here is bush honeysuckle, multiflora rose, autumn olive, briars, saplings and eastern red cedar. Those are exactly what the Fecon head is built to chew through. Bigger trees and standing dead ash take more thought, and the grapple moves logs that shouldn't be mulched where they lie. We'll tell you on the walk-through what's mulcher work on your ground.

Yes. Mulching is selective, so we can take out the understory and leave the oaks, the shade trees or the fence line you care about. Walk the ground with us, point out what stays, and we'll flag it before the machine goes in. Thinning a woods this way is what our brush mulching work is for.

It's one of the best ways to clear them. The compact track loader spreads its weight on rubber tracks, and the excavator mulcher can reach over creek banks and into steep spots without driving onto them. Because the roots stay in the ground and the mulch covers the soil, a cleared hillside is far less likely to wash out than one that's been scraped bare.

It depends on how thick the layer is and how much shade and moisture the ground gets. A thin layer in a damp, shady spot breaks down faster than a deep one on a sunny slope. While it breaks down, it holds moisture, slows erosion and keeps a lot of the brush from coming straight back.

Yes. Clearing a wooded lot so you can see the site, get a survey crew in or open a path for the builder is good mulcher work. Tell us where the house, the driveway and the yard will go, and we'll clear to those lines and leave the trees you want around the home. Our lot clearing services page covers it in more detail.

That's one of our favorite jobs. Old fields across the Ohio Valley fill in with autumn olive, multiflora rose and cedar once nobody's mowing them. The mulcher knocks it all down in one pass and leaves ground you can seed and mow again. See forestry mulching for overgrown land for how we reclaim fields and horse pasture.

Yes. We cut walking and horse trails, access paths for a side-by-side, shooting lanes and the path back to a deer stand or food plot. You walk or mark the line you want, and we follow it at the width you need. Our brush clearing page has more on trail and fence-line work.

Yes, and those jobs are welcome. A lot of homeowners have a back corner that's gone to honeysuckle and briars, or a few acres behind the house they stopped using. We can open it up and give it back to you as usable yard. See our residential land clearing page for the kinds of jobs we do at homes.

Light excavation pairs naturally with clearing: once the brush is gone, it's often the right time to fix the wet spot or cut the swale. We have the Kubota mini excavator for it, and we're happy to talk through a drainage job on its own too. Our light excavating page lays out what we do.

Most ground around Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky is heavy, clay-rich soil, and clay drains slowly. Water that has nowhere to go sits in low spots, against foundations and across driveways. A swale, some regrading or a buried drain line gives it a path off your property. Our yard drainage solutions page explains the options.

A French drain is a trench lined with fabric, filled with gravel and fitted with a perforated pipe that carries water away from where you don't want it. It helps when water soaks through the ground rather than running across the top, like a soggy strip along a hillside or a basement wall. Read more on our French drain installation page.

Yes. The mini excavator digs clean, narrow trenches for downspout lines, drain pipe and other runs across a yard or field. Each trench is dug with a fall, so the water runs downhill to where it can drain. See trenching and drainage excavation for more.

Yes. We come out, walk the ground with you and talk through what you want done. Then we give you one price for the job, and there's no charge or obligation for any of that.

Because you should know the number before we start. With hourly billing, a slow day costs you more and you don't know the total until the end. We'd rather put our new equipment and our speed to work for you and quote the job itself.

Not really, because acreage alone doesn't tell the story. An acre of light brush on flat ground and an acre of thick cedar on a steep hillside are very different jobs. That's why we price each job after we've seen it.

We work Monday to Friday, 8 AM to 5 PM. How soon we can get to you depends on the season and what's already on the schedule. We'll tell you when we can get there at the same time we give you the price.