Land Clearing and Forestry Mulching in Canal Winchester, OH: Lot, Brush and Honeysuckle Clearing

Kettering Brush & Land provides land clearing in Canal Winchester on three kinds of ground: creek-bottom lots, converted farm fields, and the warehouse edge toward Rickenbacker. Residential land clearing is a half-acre with box elder and honeysuckle. Commercial land clearing services take commercial sites along US 33 to dirt, where commercial development wants a pad by spring. Brush removal, tree removal, stump grinding, cleanup, rough grading. Excavation past rough grade, concrete and septic we refer out. Property clearing for a hobby farm and land improvement on CAUV hay ground, same mulchers. Our insured crews learned bottom clay the hard way, 14 years building pads along I-71, where April set the schedule.

Forestry mulching is a land clearing method that uses specialized equipment to grind trees, brush and vegetation into mulch and leave it as a mat on the ground. In the bottoms that mat holds the bank while grass comes in. At $2,500 a day the skid steer mulcher handles stems to 8 inches. Brush clearing by the acre runs $1,200 to 2,000; honeysuckle under box elder with dead ash runs $1,800 to 2,600. Honeysuckle resprouts from the crown, so we grind the crown and leave the mat 3 inches deep. Box elder sprouts from a stump; we grind those low. Selective clearing keeps the sycamore; we remove brush and standing dead ash. It is the cheapest way to clear areas with dense honeysuckle, and on frozen ground it leaves no rut in the bottom.

Canal Winchester issued 62 single-family permits in 2025 in the Census Building Permits Survey, most on the Franklin side. Lot clearing for one of those is one skid steer day on a half-acre, $2,500; a quarter-acre infill lot is $1,700 flat. Site prep on a bottom lot is site clearing to dirt with the stumps out and the swale left open; that is the site work before the pad. Site preparation at 1 acre or more brings the Ohio EPA construction permit and an SWCD review from whichever county you are in. On a lot in Lithopolis last fall the drainage tile ran at 32 inches and we found it with the bucket. Send the plat with the photos.

Land clearing costs in Canal Winchester run $1,700 for an infill lot to $5,000 an acre to dirt. It depends on the size of the stems and what leaves.

• Skid steer mulcher, stems to 8 inches: $2,500 a day, transport included within 60 miles of Delaware.
• 300-hp mulcher, stems to 12 inches: $3,900 a day plus transport.
• Honeysuckle and brush: $1,200 to 2,000 an acre by density.
• Bottom woodlot understory with dead ash: $1,800 to 2,600 an acre.
• To dirt, stumps out: $2,800 to 5,000 an acre.
• Stump grinding: $4 an inch, $150 minimum per stump. Ten or more, we grind by the day.
• Excavator grubbing: $160 an hour. Haul-off: $600 to 1,100 per 10-yard load.

Frozen ground, December through February, has no mud surcharge. March and April in the bottoms add a day or we wait, said before the price on every project. Large acreage clearing drops the rate: 15 acres of pasture on a farm in Knox County ran three days, $11,700 plus transport. Call (740) 729-8625 or send the form with the acreage, and I email a budget range and two dates before the end of the day.

Open burning is banned inside the corporation limits under Ohio EPA rule OAC 3745-19. Debris is mulch or haul. Out in Madison or Bloom Township a pile burns only more than 1,000 feet from a neighbor's house, with written notice to the Ohio EPA district office, with ODNR Forestry's daytime ban running March through May and again in October and November. Walnut Creek and its bottoms fall under the USACE Huntington District for anything in the channel. Wet pockets on the Kokomo flats are isolated wetlands, and only fill, not mulch on top, brings the Ohio EPA Level 1 permit. Clearing acreage needs no permit. A pad needs the county building department on your side of the line, plus a township zoning certificate. October 1 to March 31 is the Indiana bat window for trees over 3 inches on tracts over an acre. OUPS 811 marks the gas pipeline before any grubbing.

Our land clearing company serving Canal Winchester works Franklin County, OH and the surrounding area on both sides of the Fairfield line. Pickerington and Lithopolis east. Groveport and the Rickenbacker warehouses west, inside the Columbus metro. Carroll down US 33 where the farm woodlots start. Land clearing services throughout the Canal Winchester area are transport included from Delaware, and land clearing projects across Central Ohio within 60 miles bill the same way.

Our land clearing service in Canal Winchester begins with photos of the lot and ends with my email. Send the form or call (740) 729-8625. A budget range and two dates come before the end of the day. The on-site visit is free across the Columbus area; I walk the property with you and flag the wet corner. Residential and commercial properties are quoted the same way, two numbers. The land clearing FAQs are below.