Brush Hogging
We cut overgrown fields and pastures with a brush hog on our compact track loader. Tall weeds and saplings up to a few inches thick come down so the land stays open.
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Forestry mulching clears brush and small trees and leaves the ground covered in mulch. We run a compact track loader with a disc mulcher and a second mulching head. The head grinds brush, saplings, vines and buckthorn where they stand. Everything we cut stays on your land as a layer of mulch.
We serve Waukesha and the towns about 40 miles around North Prairie in Southeast Wisconsin. Forestry mulching fits overgrown acreage and wooded home sites. It is often the first step in land clearing around Waukesha. Call or text (262) 527-7619, and we look at the job and put the quote in writing.
Tell us about the land you want cleared or graded and where it is. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.
The mulching head has spinning teeth that cut standing brush and small trees. It grinds the stems into chips in the same pass. The chips fall where the brush stood and form a layer of mulch. The roots stay in the soil, and the topsoil stays where it is.
The head handles thick brush, vines, saplings and small trees, buckthorn thickets included. Mature trees you want kept stay standing, and we mulch the brush around them. Clearing under the trees this way is called underbrushing. Felling large trees is work for a tree service, and stump grinding is a separate trade.
The mulch covers bare soil, so rain is less likely to wash that soil down a slope. On the hills of the Kettle Moraine, the roots left in the ground help hold the slopes too. Over time the mulch breaks down into the soil. Grass and other plants often grow back through it once light reaches the ground.
The Kettle Moraine is glacial country, where wooded hills rise between kettle lakes and wet low spots. Across Southeast Wisconsin, buckthorn fills the understory of oak and maple woods and moves into old fields. Old pasture also goes to box elder and prickly ash when nobody cuts it. Mulching opens that ground back up so you can see into the woods and walk through them again.
On a Lake Country lot, mulching can open a view or a path down to the lake. Wisconsin's shoreland rules protect the plants in a strip at least 35 feet back from the water. Counties can allow a view corridor or the removal of invasive plants there, with conditions. Your county zoning office, or your city or village, says what your lot allows.
Clearing and hauling means the brush is cut and piled, then trucked off or burned. A mulcher does the cutting and the cleanup together. The topsoil stays in place, and the mulch covers it while plants come back.
Mulching fits land you plan to use as it is, with the topsoil and the big trees kept. Woodlots, old pasture, lake lots and hunting land are good examples. On a hobby farm or a horse property, it takes back pasture edges and fence rows.
Building a house is a different job. Where a basement or footings go, an excavation contractor digs the roots out with the soil. Mulching the lot first still helps, because the builder and the surveyor can see the ground. Our site preparation for a new home covers the building envelope and the drive.
Call or text for a written quote. We work about 40 miles around North Prairie across Waukesha County and Southeast Wisconsin.
(262) 527-7619From the first call or text to the finished work, here is how it goes.
Call or text (262) 527-7619, or send the form. Tell us where the land is and what you want done with it.
We look at the land before we price it. The thickness of the brush and the lay of the ground shape the plan.
We put the quote in writing and spell out what it covers. You decide once you have it in hand.
We set a start date with you and bring in the compact track loader. The mulching head grinds the brush and small trees where they stand.
Where the job calls for it, we grade the ground once the brush is down. The land is open and ready for its next use.
Common questions about forestry mulching around Waukesha and the Kettle Moraine. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
We cut overgrown fields and pastures with a brush hog on our compact track loader. Tall weeds and saplings up to a few inches thick come down so the land stays open.
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We mulch honeysuckle and buckthorn out from under your mature trees. The trees stay standing, and you can see and walk through your woods again.
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We mulch common and glossy buckthorn thickets to the ground with a track loader and a mulching head. The woods open up, and the regrowth gets easier to keep after.
Learn MoreThe mulching head cuts brush and small trees and grinds them into mulch in one step. The cleanup is part of the clearing.
The track loader that mulches the brush also grades the ground. One company handles the clearing and the rough pad.
We look at the job first, then put the quote in writing. You see what the work covers before you decide.
North Prairie sits at the center of our service area. Waukesha and the Lake Country towns are inside it, and so are Burlington and Elkhorn to the south.
Forestry mulching cost per acre in Wisconsin from published cost guides: per acre, hour and day ranges, what moves the price and mulching versus hauling.
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How to get rid of buckthorn in Wisconsin: what the DNR and the UW Extension say about cutting, mulching, stump treatment, timing and the follow-up.
Read more →Send us the town and a few words about the land, and we will look at the job. You can also call or text (262) 527-7619.
Tell us about the land you want cleared or graded and where it is. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.