Clearing lots, fence lines and overgrown acreage for construction, landscaping and development — selective or full, with the debris managed on site.
Land clearing covers a wide range of work: opening a building envelope on a wooded lot, taking back a fence line that has disappeared into buckthorn and sumac, thinning a woodlot to favour the trees worth keeping, or reclaiming a field that has not been cut in a decade. What they share is that the sequence matters — what comes out, in what order, and where the material goes.
We work selectively wherever it makes sense. Mature, healthy specimen trees are usually worth designing around rather than removing, and leaving a screen along a boundary is often the difference between a finished lot and an exposed one. We will walk the parcel with you, mark what stays, and clear the rest cleanly.
Opening the footprint, driveway line and staging area for new construction, coordinated around the schedule your excavator is working to.
Taking out scrub, invasives and poor-form stems while keeping the trees worth keeping, so the parcel improves rather than simply empties.
Cutting back overgrowth along property lines to give a fencing crew a clear run — and to make the boundary visible again.
Clearing dense understory, brambles and invasive thickets such as buckthorn and honeysuckle that have taken over an unmanaged area.
Removing accumulated deadfall and hangers from a neglected woodlot, which is both a fire and a safety issue on larger parcels.
Material is chipped on site to reduce hauling, with usable timber set aside and the balance removed or stockpiled as you prefer.
If any of these describe your property, it is worth having an arborist take a look — most tree problems get cheaper to solve the earlier they are caught.
Clearing has to happen before excavation, and the order it happens in affects how much soil disturbance and rework you end up paying for.
Overgrown boundaries create disputes with neighbours and make fencing, surveying and mowing far more expensive than they need to be.
Buckthorn, honeysuckle and multiflora rose crowd out native regeneration. Left alone they get harder and costlier to remove every year.
Standing dead timber near a trail, a drive or a boundary is a liability, especially on acreage that sees regular foot traffic.
Paddock, garden, orchard, yard extension — reclaiming a section of overgrown ground usually costs less than owners expect.
A clear corridor is often the prerequisite for everything else on a site, from a septic install to a new service run.
We go over the parcel with you, agree the scope, and flag the trees that stay. Boundaries and any setbacks get confirmed before anything is cut.
We identify wetland buffers, right-of-way limits and municipal requirements that apply, and sequence the work around site access.
Overstory first, then understory and brush, keeping haul routes stable and confining machine traffic to defined corridors.
Chipping, stockpiling or hauling as agreed, stumps ground where required, and a final walk of the cleared area with you.
Too much depends on the parcel for a per-acre figure to be meaningful up front. Light brush on flat, accessible ground is a fraction of the cost of dense mature woodland on a slope with a single narrow entrance. We price after walking the site, and we break the quote down by area so you can stage the work if you would rather do it in phases.
It depends on the municipality, the size of the area and what is on it. Work near wetlands or watercourses, in a designated buffer, or associated with a subdivision generally triggers review, and some towns regulate clearing above a threshold acreage. We identify what applies to your parcel during the estimate.
Not by default. Clearing takes the trees and brush; stump grinding or excavation is quoted separately because whether you need it depends entirely on what is going on the ground afterwards.
Brush is chipped on site, which cuts hauling costs substantially. Chips can be spread, stockpiled for your own use or removed. Merchantable logs can be decked for you or sold on, and the rest is hauled out.
That is the normal way we work. We flag keepers before starting and set machine exclusion zones around their root plates — soil compaction over the root zone is what kills retained trees on cleared sites, far more often than the cutting itself.
