Forestry Mulching
We mulch brush, underbrush and small trees in place with a skid steer mulching head and an excavator mulching head. The wood stays on the ground as mulch, so the tract opens up without burn piles or hauling.
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Excavator mulching puts a mulching head on the end of the excavator boom. The machine sits on firm ground and reaches out over the edge. That lets us grind brush down a ditch bank, a canal bank or a creek bank. The tracks stay up top on ground that holds.
We run a mulching head on the excavator as well as the skid steer. The skid steer is the faster machine on open, dry acreage, and that work is forestry mulching. The excavator mulcher works the edges. Pond banks, sloughs and wet pasture bottoms are the usual jobs. So is low ground that would rut under a machine.
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Drainage ditches on farm and pasture ground fill in fast here. Privet, briars and young sweetgum take the banks first. The University of Florida notes that Chinese privet is thickest along stream banks and in low wet spots. Once the banks close over, the ditch slows down and water backs onto the field.
Some landowners call it a ditch and some call it a canal. The bank grows up the same either way. We set the excavator on the field side or the road side and send the head down the bank. The brush is ground in place and the mulch drops where it grew.
This is brush work rather than dirt work. When the channel itself has silted in, digging and reshaping the ditch is a separate pass with a bucket. Plenty of jobs start with mulching the banks so the ditch can be seen before any dirt moves.
Around Monticello the water is never far. Ward Creek and Lloyd Creek run through Jefferson County. The spring-fed Wacissa River drops south through a wide cypress swamp toward the Aucilla. Lake Miccosukee lies in the north of the county as a shallow, swampy prairie lake.
Ground beside that water stays soft for much of the year. Tallahassee averages close to 59 inches of rain a year. June through September is the wet end of it, with thunderstorms most afternoons. A machine working at ground level can cut ruts into a bank like that.
The excavator stays up on ground that holds and reaches the bank instead. That is how we open creek edges, pond banks, sloughs and the wet corners of a pasture. When the pond itself has silted in, digging or cleaning out the pond is the next step.
A mulching head on a boom is a precise tool. The machine can take one stem and leave the live oak beside it. That matters along a fence, around yard trees and on plantation ground where the pines stay.
The Red Hills region between Tallahassee and Thomasville is quail plantation country. It covers about 436,000 acres of managed longleaf pine and old fields. On land like that the aim is usually to open the understory and keep the timber standing. The boom holds the head off a fence, a corner post or a pine trunk while it works.
Long open runs of fence go faster with the skid steer mulcher. Tight corners, wet crossings and steep banks go to the excavator. Both machines do fence line clearing, and we pick the one the ground calls for.
Free, no-obligation estimates across North Florida and South Georgia.
(850) 815-0054From the first call or text to the last load hauled off, here is how it goes.
Call or text (850) 815-0054 with where the property is and what you want done. A rough idea of the acreage helps.
We drive out and look at the ground, the growth and the access for the machines. That visit is the free estimate.
The land decides between mulching in place and a full clear with the debris hauled off. Thick understory usually mulches. Ground going under a building usually gets a full clear with the stumps out.
We haul the excavator and the skid steer in on our own trailers. Clearing, mulching, stump work and load-out run in whatever order the job calls for.
Debris is mulched in place or loaded into the dump truck and hauled off. We leave the ground open and usable, and you look it over before the machines leave.
Common questions about excavator mulching across North Florida and South Georgia. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
We mulch brush, underbrush and small trees in place with a skid steer mulching head and an excavator mulching head. The wood stays on the ground as mulch, so the tract opens up without burn piles or hauling.
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We dig new drainage ditches and clean out old ones so standing water leaves your land. Excavator work on pastures, fields, lots and driveways around Monticello.
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We clear brush, vines and saplings off farm and pasture fence rows so the fence can be seen and worked on. The excavator reaches in from the side and keeps the machine off your wire.
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We dig new ponds and small lakes on private land around Monticello. As a pond contractor we also reshape banks and clean out ponds that have silted in.
Learn MoreWe run a mulching head on the skid steer and on the excavator. The skid steer covers open ground fast. The excavator reaches out over banks and wet spots that will not carry a machine.
Clearing, stump work, ditches and hauling all come from one company. You deal with one phone number from the first cut to the last load off the property.
We work about 40 miles out from town. That reaches Jefferson, Madison, Taylor, Leon and Wakulla counties, plus Thomas, Grady and Brooks counties across the Georgia line. Most of it is farm, timber and plantation land.
We come out, look at the land and tell you how we would run the job. The estimate is free and it comes from your actual ground.
Tell us where the property is and what you want cleared. Call or text (850) 815-0054, or send the form and we will set up a free estimate.
Tell us about the job. We will get right back to you.