Forestry mulching · Blue Hill, Maine
We clear brush, saplings and small trees with a forestry mulcher that cuts, grinds and spreads everything in one pass, right where it stands. You get no burn piles and no trucks hauling debris off your land, and the trees you want to keep stay standing.
Most clearing on the peninsula isn't about knocking everything flat. It's opening up a house site, a view or a walking path while keeping the good pines, spruce and hardwoods.
Before we start, we walk the land with you and flag the trees that stay. Then the mulcher works the brush and understory around them, so you're left with clean ground under a healthy stand instead of a bare lot.
Flagged trees stay standing
Most jobs fall into one of these. If yours doesn't, ask anyway.
Open up a wooded lot so your builder, surveyor or excavator can get to work.
Cut a new path or reopen an old one that the alders and young spruce have closed in.
Take back grown-in fields from brush and young trees so they can be mowed or grazed again.
Clear walking, ATV and snowmobile trails and keep them open year after year.
Clear out the brush under a stand to open a view or let light in, without clearcutting.
Clean up property lines and knock back buckthorn, bittersweet and other invasives.
Jobs around Blue Hill and the peninsula, in every season.
One machine and one pass. The ground is left covered, not torn up.
We flag what stays and talk through what goes, along with access, wet spots and anything buried.
A spinning drum of carbide teeth grinds standing brush and trees into chips on the spot.
A layer of chips is left on the ground. It holds the soil, keeps erosion down and breaks down over time.
The usual way to clear land takes a crew, several machines and a lot of trucking. Here's how the two compare.
| Forestry mulching | Cut, pile and haul | |
|---|---|---|
| Debris | Ground up and left as mulch | Piled, then burned or trucked away |
| Equipment | One machine | Saws, skidder or excavator, trucks |
| Soil | Covered and protected by the mulch | Often left bare and rutted |
| Trees you keep | Worked around, one by one | Easily damaged by skidding and piling |
| Burn permit | Not needed | Needed if piles are burned |
When it isn't the right tool: mulching grinds stumps down to about ground level but leaves the roots. If you need stumps and roots fully removed for a foundation, septic or a pond, you'll also need an excavator. We'll tell you up front.
We're based in Blue Hill and work across the peninsula and the rest of Hancock County.
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