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

Land clearing in Johnstown runs from a 2-acre woodlot to 40 acres of pasture going to a pad; Kettering Brush & Land provides land clearing at both ends. Residential land clearing takes honeysuckle and dead ash off a lot, oaks left. Commercial land clearing services take commercial sites along US 62 to dirt, where commercial development is following Intel north. Brush removal, tree removal, stump grinding, cleanup: ours. Rough grading: ours. Excavation, concrete and septic I refer out. Property clearing for a horse farm and land improvement on CAUV pasture, same mulchers. Our insured crews have cleared honeysuckle since 2017; before that I spent 14 years building pads along I-71 on this till.

Forestry mulching is a land clearing method that uses specialized equipment to grind trees, brush and vegetation into mulch where they stand, and it is how pasture here gets reclaimed without a burn pile. Skid steer mulcher: stems to 8 inches, $2,500 a day. Brush clearing is $1,200 to 2,000 an acre; honeysuckle under oak with dead ash, $1,800 to 2,600. Multiflora rose and autumn olive resprout from the crown, same as honeysuckle, so we grind the crown and leave a 3-inch mulch mat seedlings cannot push through. Selective clearing keeps the oak; we remove brush and standing dead ash. Frozen ground is when a woodlot floor takes a machine without a mark. The 15-acre pasture reclaim we did on a farm in Knox County, one county north, ran three days with the big mulcher, $11,700 plus transport.

Johnstown is not in the Census Building Permits Survey places file, and the Licking County figure of 153 single-family permits for 2025 is an under-count; the county's count is the proxy. Lot clearing: one skid steer day, $2,500, for a half-acre; $1,700 flat for a quarter-acre infill lot. The 3-acre honeysuckle woodlot we did on a lot in Sunbury ran a day and a half, $3,800. Site prep on rolling ground is site clearing to dirt, stumps grubbed, a rough grade that follows the fall; the site work goes faster here. At 1 acre or more, site preparation picks up the Ohio EPA construction permit and a Licking SWCD review. Drainage on rolling ground runs to the creek, not to tile, so stumps grub clean. Send the plat.

Land clearing costs in Johnstown run $1,200 an acre for light honeysuckle 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, multiflora rose and brush: $1,200 to 2,000 an acre by density.
• 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 from December through February means no mud surcharge. March and April add a day or we wait, said before the price on every project. Large acreage clearing drops the rate: at 15 acres the big mulcher is cheaper by the acre. Give me the acreage by form or at (740) 729-8625 and I email a budget range and two dates before the end of the day.

Open burning is banned inside the city limits under Ohio EPA rule OAC 3745-19, so lot debris is mulch or haul. In Monroe or Jersey Township a brush pile burns only more than 1,000 feet from a neighbor's house, with written notice to the Ohio EPA district office, and only after 6 p.m. during ODNR Forestry's restricted months, March through May, October and November. Raccoon Creek headwaters fall under the USACE Huntington District; the wet swales feeding them are isolated wetlands, and it is fill that needs the Ohio EPA Level 1 permit, not mulching. Clearing acreage needs no permit. A pad needs the Licking County Building Code Department plus a township zoning certificate; agriculture is exempt from township zoning under ORC 519.21. For the Indiana bat, trees over 3 inches on tracts over an acre are scheduled October 1 to March 31. OUPS 811 marks the gas pipeline and power 48 hours out.

Our land clearing company serving Johnstown covers Licking County, OH and the surrounding area. New Albany and the Columbus metro edge south on SR 161. Alexandria and Granville east toward the Newark area. Sunbury west across the Delaware line. Land clearing services throughout the Johnstown 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 Johnstown starts with photos and the acreage. Send the form or call (740) 729-8625. A budget range and two dates land in your email before the end of the day. An on-site visit is free across the Columbus area; I walk the property with you and mark the wet swale. Residential and commercial properties, two numbers each, no difference. Land clearing FAQs below.