Land Clearing and Forestry Mulching in Bowling Green, OH: Lot, Brush and Honeysuckle Clearing

Land clearing in Bowling Green is farm work more than lot work: a woodlot edge, a fencerow gone to callery pear, a wet field corner. Our land clearing service in Bowling Green covers brush clearing on those edges, residential land clearing for a house pad, selective clearing that keeps the bur oak, commercial land clearing services along I-75, and full site clearing to dirt. Kettering Brush & Land provides land clearing with insured crews on residential and commercial properties, every project the same land clearing process: free site visit, then the machine.

Tree removal on dead ash is its own line. Callery pear gets a cut-stump treatment within minutes or it comes back as a thicket. Stump grinding runs $4 an inch, $150 minimum per stump; ten or more we grind by the day. Excavation is $160 an hour. We leave the site raked; cleanup is in the day rate. We stop short of concrete, wells, septic and demolition.

Callery pear, honeysuckle and brush removal near Bowling Green runs $1,200 to 2,000 an acre by density; woodlot understory with dead ash runs $1,800 to 2,600. Forestry mulching is a land clearing method that uses specialized equipment to grind trees, brush and other vegetation into mulch in place, and on tile-drained ground it is the one method that never touches the tile. The 2 to 4 inch mulch layer keeps the clay from ponding.

Callery pear seeds every old field in the county and will overgrow a fence line in three summers; honeysuckle resprouts from the crown under the oaks. The mulcher grinds crown and stem in one pass; in areas with dense pear we remove brush in two passes. On our jobs in Wood County the fields set the season: frozen ground December to February, after harvest in late October, or before planting if the clay dries. Phragmites in the county ditch stays.

Bowling Green is missing from the Census Building Permits Survey places file, and the county's 101 single-family permits for 2025 is a reporting gap against 319 the year before. A half-acre lot clearing job is one skid steer day at $2,500; a quarter-acre infill lot near campus is $1,700 flat. Frozen ground has no mud surcharge; March and April mean a day for mats or a later date.

Site preparation follows: grubbing, rough grading, a swale. I learned frost depth building pads on I-71, 32 to 36 inches, and I learned what a footing poured into a thaw does by May. We hand off the site work at the footing. The same crews handle commercial development on commercial sites along I-75, with a Wood SWCD erosion plan over 1 acre. Property owners who want a frozen-ground date send the photos in the fall.

Land clearing costs in Bowling Green start at $2,500 for a skid steer day plus transport from Delaware, about 105 miles. The number is in writing before a machine is loaded.

• Skid steer mulcher day, $2,500 plus transport, stems to 8 inches.
• 300-hp mulcher day, $3,900 plus transport, stems to 12 inches.
• Callery pear, honeysuckle and brush: $1,200 to 2,000 an acre. Woodlot understory with dead ash: $1,800 to 2,600 an acre.
• Dirt with stumps out: $2,800 to 5,000 an acre. Large acreage clearing is a day rate.
• Stumps at $4 an inch, $150 minimum. Grubbing, grading and site prep at $160 an hour.
• Hauling at $600 to 1,100 a load; mulched in place beats it.

Out here the bill depends on the size of the woodlot and whether the clay is frozen; one acre is two different quotes depending on site access in January and in April. Send acreage and photos to (740) 729-8625 or the form, and the budget range reaches your email before the end of the day.

No open burning of land-clearing brush inside Bowling Green city limits, under Ohio EPA rule OAC 3745-19. Township lots can burn only 1,000 feet from a neighbor's house, with written notice to Ohio EPA and no daytime fires in ODNR's spring and fall months; in practice brush is mulched in place or hauled. Clearing needs no permit. A pad takes the city, or Wood County Building Inspection plus a township zoning certificate. Farm use is exempt from township zoning under ORC 519.21; a field kept in crop keeps its CAUV.

Drainage is the law of the Black Swamp. Petition ditches run through the county SWCD, and a cleared woodlot cannot block one or cut a neighbor's tile. The Portage River is USACE Buffalo District water. Wet woods can be isolated wetlands; fill, not clearing, triggers the Ohio EPA permit, and we walk the property, flag it and file the Level 1 with you. Tracts over 1 acre with trees over 3 inches are winter work, October 1 to March 31, for the Indiana bat. OUPS 811 before grubbing; we probe for tile or a gas pipeline.

Kettering Brush & Land is a land clearing company serving Bowling Green, OH and the surrounding area from Delaware: Perrysburg, Haskins, Pemberville and Portage, the rest of Wood County, and the Perrysburg area end of the Toledo metro. One trailer carries our land clearing services across greater Toledo and services throughout northwest Ohio; two days in the Bowling Green area cost less per acre than one. Site conditions barely change out here: Haskins and Pemberville are the same tiled clay, and the only question is frost.

Overgrown land on a woodlot edge takes a row of the field every year, and the cheapest way to clear land here is a frozen January after the corn is off. Photos through the form, or the acreage by phone at (740) 729-8625. I email you a budget range and two dates before the end of the day. I do not charge for the on-site visit.