Trees, brush, and vines growing along fence rows make fences impossible to maintain and expensive to replace. Forestry mulching clears a clean corridor along your existing or planned fence line, giving you full access without tearing up the ground.
Fence lines in central Ohio take a beating. Every year, honeysuckle pushes further into the wire. Multiflora rose sends thorny canes through the mesh. Tree saplings grow up through the fence and eventually lift it off the ground. Within a decade, a fence row can disappear entirely under a wall of brush ten feet deep on either side.
This isn't just a cosmetic problem. Overgrown fence lines can't be inspected, repaired, or tightened. Livestock push through weak spots you can't see. Property boundaries become disputed because nobody can find the fence anymore. Posts rot and break under the weight of vines, and by the time you realize the fence needs work, you're looking at a complete tear-out and rebuild.
For farmers and rural property owners in Knox, Licking, and Morrow counties, overgrown fence rows are one of the most common and most frustrating maintenance headaches. Clearing them by hand with chainsaws and loppers is brutal, slow work — especially when you're fighting multiflora rose thorns the entire time.
Fence line clearing is for farmers, ranchers, and rural landowners who need to install new fencing, repair existing fences, or simply regain access to their property boundaries. It's also for property owners preparing for a survey or resolving a boundary question who need the fence row visible and accessible.
Whether you're running cattle in Morrow County, keeping horses in Licking County, or just maintaining a property boundary fence on a residential lot in Knox County, we can clear the corridor you need. Most fence line jobs involve clearing 10 to 20 feet on one or both sides of the fence to give you room to work and maintain the line going forward.
We run the skid steer parallel to the fence line, clearing a corridor as narrow as 8 feet or as wide as you need. The mulching head grinds brush, saplings, vines, and small trees right down to the soil, leaving a clean strip of mulch along the fence row. We can work on one side of the fence or both.
For existing fences that are still standing, we clear up to the fence on your side without damaging the wire or posts. If the fence is already down or will be torn out, we can clear right over the top of it — the mulching head handles old wire and T-posts without issue, grinding everything in its path.
If you're planning new fence installation, we clear the full corridor to give your fence crew clean, level access. No stumps to dig around, no roots to fight, no brush to cut before they can start setting posts. Your fence installer shows up to a clear path and gets straight to work, which saves you money on their labor too.
Clearing fence rows by hand is some of the worst work in land management. You're crawling through thorns, cutting one stem at a time, dragging brush out to a pile, and dealing with poison ivy the whole way. A crew of two can clear maybe 200 feet of heavy fence row in a day, and they'll be sore for a week.
Our mulching head clears that same 200 feet in about 30 minutes. There's no brush to pile, no thorns to fight, and no follow-up clearing needed. The mulch left behind suppresses regrowth along the fence line, so you're not fighting the same brush again next year.
Compared to hiring a dozer to push the fence row clear, mulching leaves the ground intact. A dozer rips out root balls and topsoil, leaving trenches and bare dirt that erode quickly on central Ohio's slopes. Mulching grinds everything at ground level and leaves a stable, walkable surface. Your fence crew can drive posts the same week we clear the line.
Fence line clearing is one of our most straightforward services. You tell us how many linear feet of fence line you need cleared and how wide you want the corridor. We'll estimate how long the job will take based on the density of the brush and the terrain.
Most fence line jobs in our five-county service area take one to two days. We arrive, walk the fence row with you to confirm the plan, and start clearing from one end to the other. If you have corner posts, gates, or specific trees you want to keep along the line, we work around them.
When we're finished, you'll have a clean, mulched corridor from end to end. Many of our customers schedule fence line clearing a week or two before their fence installer arrives, so the whole project moves quickly. Others just want to be able to see and access their boundary again — and that's a perfectly good reason too.
You'll have a clear, accessible corridor along your entire fence line. The brush, vines, and saplings that were swallowing the fence are ground into a flat layer of mulch. Existing fence posts and wire that were salvageable are exposed and accessible for repair. If the fence was beyond saving, the corridor is clean and ready for new installation.
The mulch along the fence row will suppress regrowth for the first season, and a once-a-year pass with a brush mower will keep the line clean for years to come. You'll be able to see your property boundary clearly, inspect fencing from a distance, and maintain it without a machete.
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