Get your pasture and fence lines back from autumn olive and multiflora rose. The brush gets mulched into the ground, with no burn piles and no topsoil pushed into a berm.
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A field that's a field again. A fence line you can see and fix. The edge of the woods pushed back where it was eating into the grass. The brush is ground into mulch and left where it stood, so there's nothing to pile, burn, or haul.
Most pasture jobs take two to five days, depending on size and how thick it is. You get a plan and a price before we start.
This is the work for brush that's past what a rotary mower or brush hog can handle: autumn olive clumps in the middle of a field, multiflora rose grown through the fence wire, locust and other volunteer trees thickening the line between two fields.
We use a tracked skid steer with a mulching head. It handles brush and small trees up to about 6 inches across, and up to about 8 inches with more time. It doesn't plow the field or scrape the topsoil.
Pasture reclamation is the whole field. Fence line clearing is just the wire. Tree line pushback is when the woods are moving into the grass. On the walk, we'll show you which patches are woody enough for the mulcher and which are still a mowing job.
Some stumps will try to sprout back. That's normal, and we don't leave you to figure it out. Before the job and again after, we'll go over how to keep regrowth in check, by mowing it with your own equipment or spot-spraying the right herbicide, until grass fills in and crowds the invasives out for good.
River bottoms stay soft after the hills dry out. If the ground would rut, we wait. We also wait out very dry spells, when a hot mulching head in a dry fence row is a fire risk.
Burning isn't much of a backup. Ohio bans most open burning outside town limits from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. in March, April, May, October, and November (ODNR). Mulch doesn't need a burn day.
Hanover Township is in eastern Licking County, east of Newark, with Muskingum County on its east side. The township describes itself as mostly farmland and large-lot homes, with some subdivisions (Hanover Township). That's why most of the work here is pasture and fence lines, not small yards.
Blackhand Gorge State Nature Preserve runs along the Licking River in the township. It's public land, and we don't work in it. Private parcels near it can still drop off into steep wooded banks above the river. On those banks we stay off the steepest ground and out of the water, and we leave the roots in place to hold the soil.
More on how we do it: Forestry Mulching.
Licking County overview: Licking County.
The quote form is on this page. We'll walk the ground with you and price the work before anything starts.
