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Forestry mulcher clearing dense brush on Indiana acreage
— 01 / Boone · Hendricks · Montgomery · NW Hamilton

Take your ground back.

Forestry mulching, land clearing, brush reclaim and pad-ready site prep — for the overgrown five acres behind the house, the fencerows the honeysuckle stole, and the parcel finally getting its barn.

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One machine, no burn piles$1,500–$3,000/acre mulchingFree walk-throughs on acreageDrains & wetlands flagged
— 02 / The work

Five ways we clear ground

Half-cleared woods showing thicket beside clean walkable ground

Land clearing

Trees, stumps and roots out; workable ground left behind. The full reset for building sites and pasture.

Clearing →
Fresh mulch carpet between preserved oaks after forestry mulching

Forestry mulching

One machine grinds standing brush into ground cover. No burn piles, no haul-off, acres per day.

Mulching →
Dense invasive brush being cleared at a pasture edge

Brush & underbrush

Honeysuckle, multiflora rose and cedar invasion cleared to walkable woods — keeping the trees you want.

Brush →
Freshly graded building pad staked on cleared rural land

Building site prep

Pole barns, shops, homes and drives: clearing, grubbing and rough grade that hands your builder a ready pad.

Site prep →
Operator's view over a clearing job from the machine cab

Fencerow reclaim

Growth mulched tight to the wire, trunks freed, the farm's lines given back.

Fencerows →
Aerial of Indiana farmland with wooded creek corridor and cleared parcel

Not sure which you need?

Describe the ground and what it should become — the walk-through sorts mulch-it from clear-it, free.

Acreage quote →
— 03 / Why the machine changed the math

No burn piles. No haul convoy. One pass.

The old way took a dozer, an excavator, a burn crew babysitting piles for a month and trucks hauling the rest. A drum mulcher does the whole job in one pass and leaves the ground covered instead of raw — mulch that holds soil, chokes regrowth and composts in. Light-to-moderate growth clears at conversation speed; you can watch a view come back before lunch.

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Drum mulcher head chewing through brush, chips flying
— 04 / How a job runs

Walk it, price it, clear it

The walk-through.
Anything past a couple acres gets walked in person, free — density, terrain, drains and wetlands, keep-trees flagged with you. Guessing acreage work from the road is how people get burned by change orders. We don't guess.
The written number.
Per-acre for uniform ground, by-the-job for mixed parcels, must-do separated from nice-to-do so you can phase. Our quotes hold.
The machine work.
Keep-trees preserved, edges cut clean and intended-looking, mulch left as ground cover or windrowed — your call, decided before the first pass.
The handoff.
Walkable immediately, mowable after a season, or pad-ready for the builder — with regrowth options priced so the honeysuckle doesn't win round two.
Central Indiana farmland patchwork with wooded corridors from above
— 05 / Coverage

Based in Whitestown, working the radius

This work is county-scale, not town-scale. Boone County first, then the ring around it.

Boone CountyHendricks Co.Montgomery Co.NW Hamilton Co.
— 06 / Questions

Acreage work, answered

What does land clearing cost per acre in Indiana?
Forestry mulching typically runs $1,500–$3,000 per acre in central Indiana — light brush at the low end, dense cedar and honeysuckle with 6-inch stems at the top. Traditional clearing with grubbing and haul-off costs more per acre but leaves construction-ready dirt. Parcels past a couple of acres get walked in person before we commit a number, and our numbers hold.
What's the difference between forestry mulching and land clearing?
Mulching grinds everything standing into a ground-cover layer that stays — one machine, no burn piles, no haul trucks, done fast. Traditional clearing removes material and roots for buildable ground. Mulch for reclaiming land and views; clear where something's being built.
Do I need a permit to clear my land?
On most private ground in our counties, no — clearing your own brush and trees needs no permit. The exceptions worth checking: regulated drains and their easements, designated wetlands, and floodways. Building-site work rides your building permit. We flag all of it on the quote walk.
How many acres can you clear in a day?
Light-to-moderate brush mulches at one to three acres a day depending on density and terrain. Heavy stems slow the pace. That day-rate math is why per-acre pricing improves with parcel size — mobilization is the fixed cost.
Can you clear fencerows without wrecking the fence?
That's a specialty — see the fencerow page. We mulch the growth tight to the wire, drop the trunks the wire grew into, and work off the fence line rather than through it.

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What should your ground become?

Pasture, building site, view, walkable woods — tell us and we'll price the path.

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