Lot Clearing in Cincinnati, OH
Your builder can't pour a foundation in a thicket.
We clear the house pad, the driveway path and the yard on wooded building lots, so the builder shows up to open ground instead of a wall of brush.
Our lot clearing services are for people who bought a wooded lot and now need a place to put the house. Boone County has been building out fast, and a lot of the new home sites around Union and Burlington sit on ground that was woods and fence rows a few years ago. Before anybody digs a footer, somebody has to open it up. That's us.
We walk the lot with you, price the job and line it up. Then we bring the mulcher, the grapple and the mini excavator and clear it. The owner's version: "give us a fair price and then just make it easy... Smooth and easy."
Clearing land to build a home on a wooded lot
A wooded lot usually needs three things opened: the house pad, a driveway path from the road, and enough yard around the house that you're not living in the brush. Sometimes it's a fourth, like a spot for a detached garage or a pole barn. We clear those areas and leave the rest of the woods standing if that's what you want.
The mulcher takes down the honeysuckle, saplings and small trees and turns them into chips on the spot. The grapple moves bigger logs out of the way. Dead ash near where the house will sit comes down early, because brittle standing ash and a new roof don't mix.
Pretty much non-usable land really, and making it usable land.
Brushcutrs owner
Working ahead of your builder
We're the crew that comes before the builder. The best lot clearing jobs start with a quick conversation between you, your builder and us about where the house sits, where the driveway runs and how much room the builder needs to work around the foundation. Stake it or flag it and we clear to the flags.
Clearing ahead of time means the builder's excavator shows up to dig, not to fight brush. If your builder wants the pad left bare instead of mulched, tell us up front and we'll talk through how to leave it. Any county, subdivision or HOA rules about tree removal are worth checking before the machines show up.
- House pad sized to your builder's working room
- Driveway path cleared wide enough for trucks and a concrete truck
- Yard space around the house opened to your line
- Keeper trees flagged and worked around
What the lot looks like when we leave
You get open, walkable ground where the house, drive and yard will go. Brush and small trees are ground into a mulch layer that keeps the clay from turning into soup while the lot sits waiting on the builder. Stumps in the cleared area are ground down with the mulcher head as part of the job, not as an extra.
Big logs get stacked with the grapple or ground up, your call. The trees you flagged are still standing with the junk cleared out from under them, so you can see what the finished yard will look like. It's the part we like best: "you take a wood, you can't even walk in. And then it's just all nice and clear."
What drives lot clearing cost
We price lot clearing by the job, not the hour, and we don't put dollar figures on the website because every lot is different. A half-acre pad and driveway on flat ground is a very different job from a long gravel drive climbing a wooded hillside.
- How much of the lot you want cleared
- How thick the brush and timber are
- Slope, ravines and soft spots
- Access from the road for the machines
- How many trees you want left standing
Lot clearing around Union, Burlington and Florence
Most of our lot clearing is in Boone County, where Union, Burlington and Florence, KY keep growing, and in Kenton and Campbell counties further east. We're about 25 minutes from Florence. Our Northern Kentucky service area page covers the towns we hit most.
We clear lots on the Ohio side too, around Cincinnati and the west side of Hamilton County, and just over the state line in Lawrenceburg and Aurora, IN. If the build is out by Lexington, KY, ask. Scott will tell you straight whether it makes sense.
Goes well with
- Residential land clearing: Backyards, back acres and horse farm edges taken back from honeysuckle and briars, so you can use the land you already own.
- All land clearing services
What people call us for
Common lot clearing projects
New home sites
House pad, yard and driveway opened on a wooded lot so the builder can get to work.
Driveway paths
A cleared lane from the road back to the house site, wide enough for trucks to get in.
Pole barn and garage pads
A cleared spot for an outbuilding without taking down the woods around it.
Drainage before the build
Wet spots that show up once the lot is open, handled with trenching and drainage excavation.
The rest of the property
Clearing the back of a large lot after the house is up, with residential land clearing.
Questions
Lot clearing questions
How much does lot clearing cost?
It depends on how much ground gets cleared, how thick it is, the slope, access from the road and how many trees stay. We price the whole job up front rather than charging by the hour. We walk the lot and give you a free estimate.
When should I book lot clearing for a new house?
As soon as you know where the house and driveway will sit. Clearing comes before the builder's excavator, so it's worth getting on the schedule early. If your builder has a start date, give us that date and we'll plan around it.
Can you clear just the house pad and driveway and leave the rest wooded?
Yes, and a lot of people want exactly that. Flag the pad, the drive and the yard line, and we'll clear to those flags. The mulcher works close to trunks, so the woods around the house can stay thick or get cleaned up underneath.
Will mulch left on the house pad cause a problem for the builder?
Most builders strip the topsoil off the pad before they dig, and the mulch goes with it. Some prefer to start on bare ground. Ask your builder what they want, and we'll leave the pad to match.
Do you take out stumps on a building lot?
Stumps in the cleared area get ground down with the mulcher head as part of the clearing. We don't run a separate stump grinder. Tell us where the house and drive go and those spots get the most attention.
Where we do lot clearing
Northern Kentucky first, then Greater Cincinnati, Southeast Indiana and out to Hamilton, Lexington and Georgetown, KY.
Ready to get that ground cleared?
Call or text us, or send the form. We'll walk the ground with you and give you one price for the job.
