Clearing overgrowth and turning brush into usable mulch to clean up, maintain and open up your property.
Mulching clears standing brush and small timber and leaves it on the ground as a mulch layer, instead of a pile that has to be burned or trucked off the property. On a lot of jobs that is both the cheaper answer and the tidier one.
There is no windrow to deal with, no burn permit to wait on, no disposal cost, and the job is finished the day the machine leaves rather than weeks later when someone comes back for the debris.
The mulch layer holds the ground together while the roots are still in it, which means far less erosion than open clearing on a slope. It suppresses regrowth for a while, and it breaks down into the soil over a few seasons.
For pasture reclaim, trail corridors and general property maintenance, that is exactly what you want: open ground you can walk and see across, with the soil left intact.
Mulching is not always the right call, and we would rather say so than take the easier job. If you are building on the ground, the stumps and root mass still have to come out, and mulching only handles what is above the surface.
The rule of thumb: mulching for maintaining, opening up and reducing fuel, full land clearing for anything that is going to be built on or dug into. Tell us what the ground is for and we will point you at the right one.
Mulching suits ground you want opened up but not opened. Where that applies changes with the terrain and with what is growing on it.
Bench and riverside acreages, where the regrowth is alder and willow on ground you would rather not break open. Leaving the mulch layer and the root mass in place holds a bank together through spring runoff in a way that open clearing does not, and along the rivers that is not a small consideration.
Conifer regrowth and ladder fuels around buildings on hillside lots, which is the classic wildfire interface case. Mulching gets the fuel on the ground and out of the canopy without exposing a slope above a house to erosion, and that combination is the reason it is usually the right tool here rather than a full clear.
Long work. Fence lines, property lines and trail corridors across large parcels, where the sheer length means hauling debris off makes no economic sense at all. Reclaiming pasture that has gone to brush falls in the same category, as long as the ground is not going to be dug into afterwards.
Also working Witset, Quick, Hazelton and Round Lake, and the rest of the valley in between. If your property is somewhere not on this list, call and ask, the answer is usually yes.
Brush, undergrowth and small standing timber. Anything larger, and anything with a stump that has to come out of the ground, is a land clearing job rather than a mulching one.
It suppresses regrowth for a while, because the mulch layer sits over the ground and breaks down into it across a few seasons. The roots are still in there though, so for ground you need permanently open, clearing is the answer.
On most jobs, yes. There is no windrow to build, no burn permit to wait on, no disposal cost and no second trip for debris, and the job is finished the day the machine leaves rather than weeks later.
That is one of the places it works best. The mulch layer and the intact root mass hold the ground together, so there is far less erosion than open clearing above a driveway or a house.
Yes, and it is one of the better tools for it, because the fuel comes down without the soil being opened up. Tell us when you call that fuel reduction is the goal and we will plan the work around the buildings rather than the property line.
