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

Land clearing in Medina is five jobs, and the dead ash decides which one you have.

• Residential land clearing for a house or barn pad, grubbing included.
• Brush clearing and honeysuckle mulching on an overgrown woodlot edge.
• Selective clearing: keep the oaks and maples, take the ash and the understory.
• Tree removal on dead ash as a hazard-tree job, priced per stem.
• Full site clearing to dirt for commercial land clearing services on US 42 and SR 18.

Our land clearing service in Medina runs on residential and commercial properties with insured crews. The land clearing process starts with a free site visit, and on every project the first question is the ground. Dead ash is brittle; the tops come down first. Kettering Brush & Land provides land clearing, stump grinding at $4 an inch, and excavation at $160 an hour. The last hour is cleanup; we leave the site walkable. Not on our list: concrete, wells, septic, house demolition.

Forestry mulching is a land clearing method that uses specialized equipment to grind trees, brush and other vegetation into mulch where they stand. Honeysuckle and brush removal near Medina runs $1,200 to 2,000 an acre by density. Ash over honeysuckle, the local standard, runs $1,800 to 2,600 because dead stems block every pass. The 2 to 4 inch mulch layer holds the clay through mud season.

Honeysuckle resprouts from the crown, so a bush hog alone just prunes it, and it will overgrow a pasture edge in three summers. The mulcher takes the crown with the stems. In areas with dense multiflora rose the crew runs a second pass low. We remove brush; we haul it only if you ask. Dead ash comes down on its own schedule, and the schedule is not posted. So I schedule ash lots for frozen ground, when the big machine reaches every stem without ruts.

The city issued 8 single-family permits in 2025 by the Census Building Permits Survey; the townships around it issued 376. That is where the lot clearing is: a wooded acre in Montville or Granger with a dozen dead ash on it. A half-acre lot is one skid steer day, $2,500; a quarter-acre infill lot in the city is $1,700 flat. A wooded acre with ash is two days plus the stumps, and ten or more we grind by the day.

Site preparation follows: grubbing, rough grading, a swale if the flat holds water. Fourteen years building pads along I-71 taught me frost here runs 32 to 36 inches and till clay heaves a footing poured in a thaw. Our site work stops at the concrete. Commercial development on commercial sites at the I-71 and SR 18 interchange gets the same crews and a county SWCD erosion plan over 1 acre. Property owners who send photos in fall get the February dates.

Land clearing costs in Medina begin at $2,500 for a skid steer day plus transport from Delaware. The 6-acre job above came to $7,800: two days at $3,900 with the ash included.

• Skid steer forestry mulcher, stems to 8 inches: $2,500 a day, transport added.
• 300-hp mulcher, stems to 12 inches: $3,900 a day plus transport. The machine for dead ash.
• Honeysuckle and brush: $1,200 to 2,000 an acre. Ash over honeysuckle: $1,800 to 2,600.
• Full clearing to dirt with stumps: $2,800 to 5,000 an acre. Large acreage clearing goes by the day on the big machine.
• Stump grinding: $4 per inch of diameter, $150 minimum per stump. Grubbing, grading and site prep: $160 an hour with operator.
• Haul-off: $600 to 1,100 per load. Mulched in place is cheaper.

The bill depends on the size of the tract and the month; the same woodlot prices differently depending on site access in February and April. Frozen ground carries no mud surcharge; March and April add a day. Give me the acreage and photos at (740) 729-8625 or through the form; the budget range is in your email before the end of the day.

Inside Medina city limits you cannot burn land-clearing brush, under Ohio EPA rule OAC 3745-19. Out in the townships the pile must sit 1,000 feet from a neighbor's house with written notice to Ohio EPA, and ODNR bans daytime burning in spring and fall. Mulch or haul. Clearing needs no permit; a pad takes the city, or the Medina County Building Department plus a township zoning certificate. Agriculture is exempt from township zoning under ORC 519.21.

The wet flats and Chippewa Lake are isolated wetland country. Fill, not clearing, triggers the Ohio EPA permit; Level 1 covers up to half an acre, and we walk the property, flag it and file with you. The Rocky River headwaters fall to the USACE Buffalo District. USFWS Indiana bat rules: on tracts over 1 acre, trees over 3 inches are cut October 1 to March 31 unless a summer survey clears the site. OUPS 811 before any grubbing; the crew watches for gas pipeline easements and unmarked tile.

Kettering Brush & Land is a land clearing company serving Medina, OH and the surrounding area from Delaware: Brunswick, Wadsworth, Hinckley and Seville, the whole county, and the south end of the Cleveland metro. Land clearing services across greater Cleveland and services throughout northeast Ohio ride one trailer; two days in the Medina area cost less per acre than one. Site conditions change by township: ravines north, wetter toward Seville, lake-plain clay toward Brunswick.

Overgrown land with dead ash on it gets worse every winter, and the cheapest way to clear land here is a frozen February. Send the form with photos, or call (740) 729-8625 with the acreage and the township. I email you a budget range and two dates before the end of the day. No charge for the on-site visit.