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

Land clearing in Marysville is fencerows first. Kettering Brush & Land provides land clearing that takes an osage orange hedgerow out to the root so a field farms as one. Residential land clearing on a Jerome Township lot and commercial land clearing services for commercial sites along US 33, where commercial development follows Honda, share crews. Brush removal, tree removal, stump grinding and cleanup are ours, rough grading too. Excavation, concrete and septic we refer out. Property clearing for a horse operation and land improvement on CAUV pasture, same mulchers. Our insured crews learned flat till clay in the pad years, 14 years of warehouse pads along I-71. It drains the same here: slowly.

Forestry mulching is a land clearing method that uses specialized equipment to grind trees, fencerow brush and vegetation into mulch in place, and on this ground it beats a dozer every month but January. Stems to 8 inches go through the skid steer mulcher at $2,500 a day. Brush clearing by the acre runs $1,200 to 2,000; a woodlot understory with dead ash runs $1,800 to 2,600. Honeysuckle resprouts from the crown; we grind the crown and leave a 3-inch mulch mat. Osage orange is harder than the teeth. We grind it low and slow, and treat the stump that morning. Selective clearing keeps the bur oak in a farm woodlot; we remove brush only. Frozen ground, December to February, is when a fencerow comes out without a rut across the field.

Marysville is not in the Census Building Permits Survey places file, because the county building department issues every permit, cities included; the county count of 595 single-family permits for 2025 is the proxy. Lot clearing runs $2,500 for a half-acre, one skid steer day, and $1,700 flat for a quarter-acre infill lot. That was the job on a lot in Plain City last fall: fencerow honeysuckle, two dead ash, a day. Site prep is site clearing to dirt, stumps out, tile flagged, a rough grade; the builder takes the site work from there. Site preparation past 1 acre brings the Ohio EPA construction permit and a Union SWCD review. Drainage tile runs under every field at 30 to 36 inches, so stumps come out with the bucket. Send the plat.

Land clearing costs in Marysville 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 stays.

• 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 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, by the day.
• Excavator grubbing: $160 an hour. Haul-off: $600 to 1,100 per 10-yard load.

December through February, frozen ground, no mud surcharge. March and April add a day or we wait; that comes before the price on every project. Large acreage clearing drops the rate: 15 acres of fencerow and pasture on a farm in Knox County ran three days, $11,700 plus transport. Send the acreage with the form or call (740) 729-8625, and my email with a budget range and two dates goes out before the end of the day.

Open burning is banned inside the corporation limits under Ohio EPA rule OAC 3745-19. Lot debris is mulch or haul. In Jerome or Millcreek 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, and never 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. in March, April, May, October or November, ODNR Forestry hours. Big Darby Creek is a State and National Scenic River with clubshell and riffleshell mussels; the county enforces riparian setbacks on the bank. Wet spots are isolated wetlands; mulching them is legal, filling them takes an Ohio EPA Level 1 permit. Clearing acreage needs no permit. A pad needs the county building department plus a township zoning certificate; agriculture is exempt from township zoning under ORC 519.21. On wooded tracts over an acre, trees past 3 inches come down inside the Indiana bat window, October 1 to March 31. OUPS 811 locates the gas pipeline; tile we locate ourselves.

Our land clearing company serving Marysville covers Union County, OH and the surrounding area. Plain City on the Madison line south. Milford Center west. Richwood north. Dublin and the Columbus metro down US 33. Land clearing services throughout the Marysville 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 Marysville starts with photos of the fencerow and ends with my email. Send the form or call (740) 729-8625. You have a budget range and two dates by email before the end of the day. On-site, the visit is free anywhere in the Columbus area; I walk the property with you and find the tile first. Residential and commercial properties, farm or pad, same email. Land clearing FAQs below.