Forestry Mulching & Land Clearing in Fayette, MO
Boone’s Lick hill country. Cedar and honeysuckle in the draws, ground down on the slope without leaving bare dirt.
Land clearing in Fayette, MO covers the rolling Howard County ground between Glasgow, New Franklin and Armstrong, the timbered draws that feed toward the Missouri River, and the acreage along Highways 5 and 240.
Forestry mulching around Fayette, Missouri clears cedar, honeysuckle and brush from the hill ground of Howard County, between the Missouri River bluffs and the farm country north of town. Growth is ground where it stands and left as mulch on the slope, so there is no bare soil to wash and no burn pile to manage.
Fayette: Hill Ground With a Lot of Draws
Howard County is older ground than the flat till plain to the north. It rolls, it breaks into draws, and the draws grow cedar and honeysuckle thick enough to close a pasture off from itself. Fayette sits in the middle of it. The clearing work here is slope work more often than not, and slope work is where the difference between mulching and pushing with a dozer shows up in the first hard rain.
On a slope, what you leave behind matters as much as what you take off. A dozer leaves bare dirt and push piles; a mulcher leaves the roots in the ground and a layer of ground-up material on top. The ground stays put, the piles never exist, and there is nothing to burn. That is the whole argument for the method in this part of the county.
Fayette is a college town and a county seat, and a fair amount of the acreage around it is owned by people who live in town and keep the ground for the view, the hunting or the eventual sale. Those jobs are about sight lines, keeping a fence line honest and having a lane you can drive rather than clearing for production.
North toward Armstrong and Higbee the ground flattens out and the work turns to fence rows and field edges. South toward New Franklin and the Katy Trail it drops into the river bluffs. Same county, two very different jobs, and it is a short haul from our shop in Salisbury either way.
Services in Fayette
Forestry Mulching
Standing brush, saplings and undergrowth ground down into mulch where they stand. No burn piles, nothing hauled off.
Building Site Clearing
House pads, shop sites, barn sites and access lanes cleared and opened up so your builder or excavator can start on schedule.
Brush Clearing
Fence lines, field edges, ditch banks and pasture reclaimed from honeysuckle, cedar, multiflora rose and volunteer brush.
Trail Clearing
Shooting lanes, ATV and UTV trails, walking paths and access lanes cut through timber at the width you want.
Fire Breaks
Fuel breaks mulched around structures, timber stands and property lines ahead of prescribed burns or fire season.
Small Tree Pulling
Small trees and cedars pulled root ball and all where a stump left behind would be a problem later.
General Land Clean Up
Storm debris, dead falls, old brush piles and the leftovers of a logging job cleaned up and the ground put back in order.
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Fayette FAQ
Common questions from property owners in Fayette, Missouri.
On slope ground, usually yes. A dozer leaves bare soil and push piles that have to be burned or hauled; a mulcher leaves the roots in place and a mulch cover on top, so the ground does not move in the next rain and there is nothing left to deal with.
Our shop is in Salisbury, which is about half an hour north, so Fayette is a short haul and travel is a small part of the quote.
Yes. Opening sight lines, clearing a lane to the back of the ground and taking the brush off the fence lines is common work ahead of a listing, and it is the kind of job that is quick with the right machine.
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