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

Land clearing in London is farm work near town: a fencerow out so two fields farm as one, a woodlot thinned, pasture reclaimed. Kettering Brush & Land provides land clearing for all of it, plus residential land clearing on a new lot and commercial land clearing services for commercial sites along I-70, where commercial development wants pads. Brush removal, tree removal, stump grinding, cleanup, and grading to rough. Excavation, concrete and septic I refer out. Property clearing for a horse barn and land improvement on CAUV ground, same mulchers. Our insured crews have cleared honeysuckle since 2017; I grew up on a farm in Knox County and spent 14 years building pads along I-71, so a fencerow and a pad both look like Tuesday.

Forestry mulching is a land clearing method that uses specialized equipment to grind trees, brush and vegetation into mulch where they stand, and on the till plain it beats a burn pile every month. The skid steer mulcher takes 8-inch stems and costs $2,500 a day. Brush clearing runs $1,200 to 2,000 an acre; a woodlot understory with dead ash, $1,800 to 2,600. Autumn olive and honeysuckle resprout from the crown, so we grind the crown under a 3-inch mulch mat. Osage orange goes through the big mulcher slow. Selective clearing keeps the bur oak; we remove brush and standing dead ash. Frozen ground is when a fencerow comes out with no rut across the field. The 15-acre fencerow and pasture reclaim we did in Knox County ran three days, big mulcher, $11,700 plus transport.

London issued 88 single-family permits in 2025 in the Census Building Permits Survey, with Madison County at 404. Lot clearing is a half-acre in one skid steer day, $2,500, or a quarter-acre infill lot at $1,700 flat. That was a lot in Plain City last fall: fencerow honeysuckle, two dead ash, one day. Site prep is site clearing to dirt, stumps out, a rough grade across the old tile; the site work after that is the builder's. Site preparation at 1 acre or more brings the Ohio EPA construction permit and a Madison SWCD review. Drainage tile runs under every field at 30 to 36 inches and OUPS 811 does not mark it; stumps come out with the bucket. Send the plat.

Land clearing costs in London run $1,200 an acre for light honeysuckle to $5,000 an acre to dirt. It depends on the size of the stems and the osage orange count.

• 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, autumn olive and fencerow 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.

December to February is frozen ground and 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 runs under $800 an acre. Send the form with the acreage or call (740) 729-8625; I email a budget range and two dates before the end of the day.

No open burning inside the city limits, Ohio EPA rule OAC 3745-19; lot debris is mulch or haul. In Union or Deer Creek Township a fencerow pile burns only more than 1,000 feet from a neighbor's house, with written notice to the Ohio EPA district office, with no daytime burning in March, April, May, October or November under the ODNR Forestry rule. Big and Little Darby Creek are State and National Scenic Rivers; the county enforces riparian setbacks under the Big Darby Accord. Wet spots are isolated wetlands: the Ohio EPA Level 1 permit applies to fill, and we do not fill. Clearing acreage needs no permit. A pad needs the county Building Regulations office plus a township zoning certificate; agriculture is exempt from township zoning under ORC 519.21. Indiana bat rules put trees over 3 inches on tracts over an acre into the October 1 to March 31 window. OUPS 811 marks the gas pipeline before the first fencerow stump moves.

Our land clearing company serving London covers Madison County, OH and the surrounding area. West Jefferson and the Columbus metro east on I-70. The Plain City area north on US 42. Mount Sterling south. South Charleston west, where woodlots get bigger. Land clearing services throughout the London 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 London starts with photos of the fencerow and ends with my email. Send the form or call (740) 729-8625. The budget range and two dates come back before the end of the day. On-site visits are free in the Columbus area; I walk the property with you and find the tile ahead of the crew. Residential and commercial properties get the same two numbers, farm or lot. Land clearing FAQs below.