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

Kettering Brush & Land provides land clearing for lots, acreage and woodlots straight from the yard here. Our land clearing service in Lebanon covers four kinds of work. Brush clearing and honeysuckle removal with the mulcher. Selective clearing that keeps the oaks and takes the junk underneath. Full site clearing to dirt for a pad, stumps out, rough grading done. Tree removal and stump grinding on tight lots. Residential land clearing is most of it. Commercial land clearing services on commercial sites along SR 63 take more days, and residential and commercial properties get the same insured crew. We do not pour concrete, drill wells or set septic. A professional land clearing service tells you what the ground will carry this week. Frozen, mud or dust, pick one.

Forestry mulching is a land clearing method that uses specialized equipment to grind trees, brush and vegetation into mulch where they stand. The stems are mulched in place, and the two to four inch layer holds the clay through spring rains. Honeysuckle is the main customer near Lebanon. It resprouts from the crown, so a bush hog buys you one summer. Callery pear and tree-of-heaven get a cut-stump treatment within minutes of the cut or they come back fivefold. It will overgrow a fencerow in three summers and has changed the landscape along SR 48. I've cleared it every winter since 2017. In areas with dense pear we run the 300-hp machine. I have run a mulcher in every month Ohio has. December is the only one that never argued.

The city issued 43 single-family permits in 2025 by the Census Building Permits Survey; the growth sits in Turtlecreek and Clearcreek townships, 611 in unincorporated Warren County. Lot clearing for a build is a half-acre a day with the skid steer, $2,500, or $1,700 flat on a quarter-acre infill lot in Lebanon or Mason. Site preparation for the pad means stumps out, roots raked, rough grading for drainage away from the footprint, OUPS 811 called 48 hours ahead. On our jobs in Turtlecreek Township we find unmarked tile with the bucket at about 30 inches. Fourteen years building pads along I-71 taught me frost goes 32 to 36 inches here, so a winter pad gets cleared now and dug later. Commercial development along SR 63 is the same site work, bigger footprint.

Land clearing costs in Lebanon run $1,200 to $5,000 an acre depending on site conditions and what you want left.

• Skid steer forestry mulcher: $2,500 a day, transport included within 60 miles, stems to 8 inches.
• Dedicated 300-hp mulcher: $3,900 a day plus transport, stems to 12 inches.
• Honeysuckle and brush removal, mulched: $1,200 to 2,000 an acre, thin stands low and thickets high.
• Mixed woodlot understory with dead ash: $1,800 to 2,600 an acre.
• Full clearing to dirt with stumps: $2,800 to 5,000 an acre.
• $4 per inch of diameter for stump grinding, $150 minimum; we grind ten or more by the day.
• Dozer or excavator grubbing and excavation: $160 an hour with operator.
• Hauling what cannot be mulched runs $600 to 1,100 per 10-yard load.

Burning is out inside city limits under the Ohio EPA open burning rule, OAC 3745-19, so most lots here are mulch or haul. Outside corporation limits the pile needs 1,000 feet from a neighbor's house and written notice to the Ohio EPA, and ODNR bars daytime burning March through May and in October and November. Clearing needs no permit on acreage; a pad needs a Warren County Building Department permit plus a township zoning certificate. Disturb an acre or more and the NPDES construction permit applies, with a stormwater plan the Warren SWCD reviews. I wrote those in the pad years. Wet pockets can be isolated wetlands: clearing is fine, fill triggers the permit, and we walk the property and flag it with you first. Streams run to the USACE Huntington District. Trees over 3 inches on tracts over an acre are cut October 1 to March 31 for the Indiana bat.

We run land clearing services across Warren County from this yard, transport included within 60 miles. Mason estate woodlots, Springboro acreage on the Montgomery line, Maineville lots above the Little Miami, Waynesville fencerows toward Caesar Creek Lake. Across Greater Cincinnati and the rest of Southwest Ohio the same crews cover five more counties; the Cincinnati metro pages list each one. The Lebanon area is home ground, so a one-day job gets the earliest open date. Large acreage clearing on a farm takes the big machine and a week; property clearing on an estate lot takes a day. Commercial clearing for commercial properties in Lebanon runs the same way. Land improvement for a pond or pasture, same machine, different map.

Send the form with photos of your lot and a rough acreage, or call (740) 729-8625. I email you a budget range and two dates before the end of the day. The free site visit covers anything within 60 miles; that is the land clearing process until we leave the site. Insured crews, prices in writing, the mud day and the bat window stated before the number. Every project.