Residential Land Clearing in Cincinnati, OH
You paid for all of it. Use all of it.
Backyards swallowed by honeysuckle, back acres nobody's walked in a decade, fence lines buried in briars. We open it up so you can use your own property again.
Residential land clearing is work for homeowners, not developers. Somebody bought a place with acreage, the back of it went to honeysuckle, and now it's a wall they look at from the deck. The owner sees it all the time: "A lot of people have a lot of land and they might have, you know, 20 acres of it or 10 acres of it that they don't even use. And then we open it all up and they can use it."
It can be half an acre behind a house in Florence, KY or fifteen acres on a farm in Dearborn County, IN. Small jobs are welcome. In the owner's words: "We'll even do a half a day. As long as I can schedule two in a day."
Clearing a backyard the honeysuckle took over
Amur bush honeysuckle is the reason half the backyards in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky stop thirty feet past the patio. It leafs out early, holds its leaves late and shades out everything under it. Leave it ten years and you've got a thicket you can't see into, let alone walk through.
We take the honeysuckle, multiflora rose, briars and saplings down to the ground with the mulcher and leave the oaks, maples and walnuts you want to keep. What used to be a wall becomes a shady yard you can mow under. Our brush mulching page goes into the honeysuckle side of it.
Pretty much non-usable land really, and making it usable land.
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Clearing acreage you've never been able to use
Plenty of properties around here come with five, ten or twenty acres, and most owners have only ever used the part near the house. The back of it is grown up in cedar, autumn olive and dead ash. You know it's yours. You just can't get to it.
Clearing acreage opens that ground back up. Make room for a garden, a play area for the kids, a food plot, a pole barn or just a view down the hill that's been hidden for years. We can clear all of it or cut a few big rooms and lanes and leave the rest as woods.
- A garden plot with real sun
- A play area or open lawn for the kids
- A pad for a pole barn or shed
- A view opened up down a hillside
- A food plot or a path to the deer stand
Horse farm edges and fence rows
On horse properties the brush creeps in from the edges. Fence rows fill with multiflora rose and cedar, and pasture corners go to briars until the horses can't graze them. The board fence ends up buried and you can't get a mower or a tractor anywhere near it.
We clean out fence rows and pasture edges with the mulcher, working close to the fence without tearing it out, and grind the brush into cover that settles into the ground. For bigger stretches of grown-up field, see our forestry mulching for overgrown land.
Property clean up without wrecking the place
Residential brush clearing happens close to the stuff you care about: the house, the lawn, the septic field, the swing set. Our machines run on tracks, which spread the weight better than tires and leave fewer ruts in the yard. Mulching also means no burn pile in your backyard and no dump trucks backing over your lawn.
Before we start, we walk the job with you and mark what stays, where the machines come in and what to stay off of. The owner describes how we want to come across: "really nice machinery, really, really honest, a really good, honest approach." If the newly open ground turns out to hold water, our yard drainage work can sort that out while we're there.
Residential land clearing across three states
Northern Kentucky is our focus: Florence, Union, Burlington, KY and the rest of Boone, Kenton and Campbell counties. Read more on our Northern Kentucky page.
From our base in North Bend we also cover the hills and ravines of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Butler County around Hamilton, OH, and Lawrenceburg, IN, Aurora, IN and the Dearborn County hills in Southeast Indiana.
Goes well with
- Lot clearing: House pads, driveway paths and yards opened on wooded lots ahead of your builder, around Union, Burlington and Florence, KY.
- All land clearing services
What people call us for
Common residential land clearing projects
Honeysuckle backyards
A backyard wall of honeysuckle and briars cleared down to a shady yard you can mow.
Back acres
The unused back of a 5 to 20 acre property opened up for gardens, lawn or a food plot.
Horse farm fence rows
Multiflora rose and cedar cleaned out of fence lines and pasture corners.
Walking trails
A path through your own woods, cut clean with brush clearing.
Opening a view
Brush and junk trees cleared off a hillside so you can see what's down there.
Pole barn pads
A cleared spot for a barn or shed, or a full home site with lot clearing.
Questions
Residential land clearing questions
Will the machine tear up my lawn?
The track loader spreads its weight over rubber tracks, so it's easier on turf than a wheeled machine. On wet clay any machine leaves marks, which is why we'd rather wait a few dry days than push it. We plan the route in and out with you before we start.
Do you take small residential brush clearing jobs?
Yes. A single backyard or a fence row is a fine job for us, and half-day jobs can be scheduled. We line up two small jobs in a day so the drive makes sense.
Will the honeysuckle come back after clearing?
Bush honeysuckle resprouts from the root, so a cleared backyard will push new shoots the next season. Mowing the area regularly keeps it down, and many homeowners treat the resprouts while they're small. The regrowth is a lot easier to handle than the original thicket.
What should I do before you clear near my house?
Know where your septic tank, drain field and any buried lines run, and call 811 to get utilities marked if any digging is planned. Flag the trees and plants you want to keep. Then walk it with us so we're working from the same map.
How is residential land clearing priced?
By the job, not the hour. The size of the area, how thick the brush is, the slope, how a machine gets in and what stays standing all go into the number. We give a free estimate after we see it.
Where we do residential land 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.
