Clear my woods — forestry mulching
One machine, one pass. Standing brush, saplings, and small trees ground into a clean mulch layer — no burn piles, no hauling, and your mature trees left standing.
Madison County, Kentucky
Richmond and Madison County give us some of the most varied ground in our service area — open farmland north of town, and steeper, more heavily wooded country as you head toward Berea and the Knobs. We bring a tracked mulcher that handles both.
North Madison County looks a lot like Fayette: rolling pasture, fence rows, and creek-side thickets. South and east of Richmond the terrain gets tougher, with steeper hillsides, thinner soil, and dense mixed hardwood and cedar cover. On that kind of slope, mulching is safer and less destructive than pushing material into piles.
A lot of Madison County acreage is bought for hunting and recreation. That work is usually trails, shooting lanes, and food plot openings rather than wall-to-wall clearing — mulching handles it without opening the whole property up.
One machine, one pass. Standing brush, saplings, and small trees ground into a clean mulch layer — no burn piles, no hauling, and your mature trees left standing.
Bush honeysuckle, multiflora rose, autumn olive, briars, and cedar removed and taken back to open, walkable ground.
Straight, clean corridors mulched right up to the line so new wire or plank fence can go in.
Overgrown fields returned to grazing or hay, and building pads opened up while keeping the trees you want.
Full details on every offering are on our services page, and pricing is broken down in what forestry mulching costs per acre in Kentucky.
Most calls we get from Richmond start the same way: "I need to clear my woods, but I don't want a mess." If the back of your property has grown into a wall of saplings, vines, and deadfall, we can clear your woods in a single pass with a forestry mulcher. We keep the trees you want, grind everything else into mulch on the spot, and leave the ground open enough to walk, mow, or build on.
If you're thinking "I just need someone to clear my brush," that's our most common job in Madison County. We clear brush from fence lines, creek banks, pasture edges, and overgrown lots, with no burn piles to watch and no brush to haul off. Most small Richmond properties are done in a day.
Honeysuckle is the biggest problem we see around Richmond and Berea and Waco. If you want to remove honeysuckle for good, mowing and cutting won't do it, because the roots just send up new growth. We mulch the bushes down to the ground and give you a simple plan to keep them from coming back. See our honeysuckle removal service or our step-by-step guide on how to clear woods and overgrown land.
Clearing woods and brush around Richmond typically costs $1,200–$3,000 per acre, depending on how thick the growth is and how steep the ground is. Call (859) 813-0007 for a free walk-through, Mon–Sat 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
Tell us the acreage, terrain, and what you want the land to do afterward. We'll come walk it with you and give you a straight number.