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

Land clearing in North Canton is a township woodlot job nine times out of ten. Our land clearing service in North Canton covers residential land clearing for a house pad in Jackson or Plain township, brush clearing on fencerows gone to autumn olive, selective clearing where you keep the oaks, commercial land clearing services on Whipple Avenue, and full site clearing to dirt. On residential and commercial properties alike, Kettering Brush & Land provides land clearing with insured crews, and the land clearing process on every project opens with a free site visit and a written range.

Dead ash is priced as tree removal, its own line, because the tops let go before the saw reaches the trunk. For stump grinding figure $4 an inch and a $150 minimum per stump; ten or more and we grind by the day instead. Excavation is $160 an hour. Cleanup is built into the day, and we leave the site raked. Concrete, wells, septic and demolition are not ours.

Honeysuckle, autumn olive and brush removal here runs $1,200 to 2,000 an acre by density; woodlot understory with dead ash runs $1,800 to 2,600. Forestry mulching is a land clearing method that uses specialized equipment to grind trees, brush and other vegetation into mulch where they stand. Nothing leaves the lot, and the 2 to 4 inch mulch layer holds soil that blows in August and floats in April.

Autumn olive resprouts from the crown and will overgrow a fencerow in two summers, honeysuckle likewise under the trees. The mulcher gets the crown, which is the point; in areas with dense olive we remove brush in two passes. We cleared 15 acres of fencerow and pasture on a farm in Knox County, multiflora rose and autumn olive, three days on the big mulcher, $11,700 plus transport. A Lake Township fencerow is the same plant list and the same bill. Muck is the one ground I will not put a machine on in spring.

The city issued 14 single-family permits in 2025 by the Census Building Permits Survey; Jackson, Lake and Plain townships carry most of Stark County's 350 unincorporated starts. On a half-acre, lot clearing is a single skid steer day, $2,500; a quarter-acre infill lot in the city is $1,700 flat; a wooded township acre with ash is two days and the stumps. There is no mud surcharge on frozen ground; mud season, March and April, adds a day or we hold the date.

Site preparation follows: grubbing and rough grading. Building pads along I-71 for fourteen years taught me that frost sits at 32 to 36 inches and that a footing poured in a thaw is poured twice. Our site work ends at the concrete. The same crews handle commercial development on commercial sites along I-77, with a county SWCD erosion plan over 1 acre. January belongs to property owners who sent photos in October.

Land clearing costs here start at $2,500 for a skid steer day plus transport from Delaware, about 110 miles. Range first, in writing, then the trailer.

• Skid steer mulcher, $2,500 a day, stems to 8 inches. Transport added.
• 300-hp mulcher, $3,900 a day plus transport, stems to 12 inches.
• Autumn olive, honeysuckle and brush: $1,200 to 2,000 an acre. Understory with dead ash: $1,800 to 2,600.
• Full clearing to dirt with stumps: $2,800 to 5,000 an acre. Large acreage clearing: day rate.
• Stump grinding at $4 an inch with a $150 minimum per stump. Grubbing, grading and site prep at $160 an hour.
• Haul-off at $600 to 1,100 a load; mulched in place saves it.

What you pay depends on the size of the tract and when we come; an acre is priced one way depending on site access in January and another in April. 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.

No open burning of land-clearing brush inside the city limits, under Ohio EPA rule OAC 3745-19. 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, so most brush is mulched in place or hauled. Clearing needs no permit. A pad takes the city, or the Stark County Building Department plus a township zoning certificate. A working farm is exempt from township zoning, ORC 519.21.

Nimishillen Creek drains to the Tuscarawas and the USACE Huntington District; the muck north of town drains to a different district, and I check before any fill. Muck pockets are isolated wetland country: fill, not clearing, triggers the Ohio EPA permit, Level 1 to half an acre, and we walk the property, flag it and file with you. For the Indiana bat, trees over 3 inches on a tract over 1 acre come down October 1 to March 31. Drainage on old fields means unmarked tile; OUPS 811 before grubbing, and we probe for tile or a gas pipeline.

Kettering Brush & Land is a land clearing company serving the city and its townships from Delaware: Hartville, Uniontown and Louisville, the rest of Stark County, and the north half of the Canton metro. We run land clearing services across the Canton area and services throughout northeast Ohio on one trailer; two days in the North Canton area cost less per acre than one. Site conditions change at the muck line: Uniontown is muck and tile, Louisville is plateau clay.

Overgrown land on a township woodlot gets a bracket thicker every summer, and the cheapest way to clear land here is a frozen January. 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.