Overgrown ground does not stay the same, it gets worse every season. Honeysuckle fills in, fence rows swallow the wire, dead limbs build up in the canopy, and what was a usable acre becomes a thicket you cannot walk through. When undergrowth takes over and the canopies of your trees are full of dangerous dead wood, call on Central Kentucky Tree Service to reclaim that land for productive use. We have been doing land clearing in Lexington, KY and across Central Kentucky since 2003.
Bush honeysuckle, which is the single biggest problem on Central Kentucky property. It shades out everything underneath it, holds moisture against fences and outbuildings, and spreads from every untouched corner. Clearing it is most of what the word overgrown means around here.
Fence rows grown up with hackberry, locust, multiflora rose and autumn olive to the point where the fence cannot be seen, let alone maintained.
Pasture and paddock edges where the tree line has crept in and taken usable grazing, or where dead limbs hang over ground that horses use.
Building pads and lots that need clearing and leaving level and workable before construction starts.
Storm debris fields where a line of trees came down across a property and the whole area has to be cleaned up at once rather than tree by tree.
Back acreage on residential property that was mowable a decade ago and is not now.
Central KY Tree Service has cleared land for agricultural areas, horse farms and residents with large back yards throughout Lexington and the Central Kentucky area. Rather than harm the environment, we help by limiting overgrowth near urban areas and keeping native wildlife out of harm’s way.
Overgrown property can be cleared and used for other purposes.
We walk the property with you first, because clearing is as much about what stays as what goes. Good mature trees usually get kept and cleaned up rather than taken out, and that decision is much cheaper to make before the equipment starts than after. We mark what stays, agree the boundary of the work, and quote it.
Then the crew clears the brush, takes the trees that were marked, chips what can be chipped on site, and hauls off what cannot. Stumps get ground if you want the ground mowable afterward, which you can read about on our stump grinding and stump removal page. What you should be able to do when we leave is drive a mower or a tractor across it.
Clearing is easier and usually cheaper in the dormant season. The leaves are off so the crew can see the property and what is worth keeping. The ground is firm enough for equipment without rutting. Nothing is nesting. And honeysuckle, which holds its leaves long after the native trees drop theirs, is the easiest thing in the woods to find and pull out in December.
Reclaiming ground for productive use is different from clearing a building lot. On a horse farm the priorities are a clean, safe fence line, no dead limbs over the paddock, no toxic volunteers coming up in grazing areas, and ground that goes back into grass rather than back into brush. We plan that work around what the ground has to do afterward.
You can rely on a company that has been in business since 2003, maintains a steady crew using safe, modern equipment, and carries all appropriate licensing and insurance requirements. Clearing work brings machinery onto your property for days at a time, so that last part is not a formality, and we will send the certificate before anyone starts.
How is this priced? By the property, after we have walked it. Acreage alone does not tell you much when one acre is head high honeysuckle and the next is open with six mature trees.
Can you leave the wood? Chips, yes. Tell us where you want the pile.
Do you do the stumps too? Yes, and on a clearing job it is worth deciding up front, because it changes whether the ground is mowable when we finish.
How long does an acre take? Entirely dependent on what is on it. A lightly overgrown acre and a heavily wooded one are not the same job and we will not pretend otherwise until we have seen it.
Just need a few trees out? That is tree removal rather than clearing, and it is quoted differently.
We clear overgrown land for farms, horse properties, builders and homeowners in Lexington, Nicholasville, Wilmore, Georgetown, Versailles, Midway, Frankfort, Lawrenceburg, Paris, Cynthiana, Winchester, Mount Sterling, Richmond and Berea. Call 859-333-7246 for a free on-site quote.