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

Land clearing in Pataskala splits two ways: a wet woodlot thinned for a house, or a field edge taken to dirt. Kettering Brush & Land provides land clearing for both. Residential land clearing is honeysuckle and dead ash around the house footprint. Commercial land clearing services take commercial sites along SR 16 to dirt, where commercial development follows Intel. We handle brush removal, tree removal, stump grinding, cleanup and rough grading. Excavation, concrete, wells and septic I refer out. Property clearing on a hobby farm and land improvement on CAUV pasture, callery pear out, run the same mulchers. Our insured crews know Crosby clay from the pad years, 14 years building pads along I-71, which taught me to read the soil map first.

Forestry mulching is a land clearing method that uses specialized equipment to grind trees, brush and vegetation into mulch where they stand, and on a Kokomo flat it is the only method that works before June. The skid steer mulcher runs $2,500 a day and takes stems to 8 inches. Brush clearing runs $1,200 to 2,000 an acre; honeysuckle under maple with dead ash runs $1,800 to 2,600. Honeysuckle comes back from the crown; we grind the crown and leave 3 inches of mulch over it. Callery pear resprouts from stump and root; the cut gets treated within minutes or you have a thicket. Selective clearing keeps the oak; we remove brush and whatever ash is dead. Frozen ground floats the mulcher over a flat that would swallow it in April. Three acres of honeysuckle woodlot in Sunbury took us a day and a half, $3,800. Same price here.

Pataskala is not in the Census Building Permits Survey places file, and the county figure of 153 single-family permits for 2025 is an under-count; the county's count is the proxy, and a low one. A half-acre lot is one skid steer day of lot clearing at $2,500; a quarter-acre infill lot is $1,700 flat. Site prep on a flat means site clearing to dirt, stumps out, a rough grade cut to drain; wet site work waits for frost. Site preparation at 1 acre or more brings the Ohio EPA construction permit and a Licking SWCD review. On a lot in Etna last spring the drainage tile was running full at 30 inches, so we grubbed from the high corner. Send the plat.

Land clearing costs in Pataskala run $1,200 an acre for light honeysuckle to $5,000 an acre to dirt. It depends on the size of the stems and how wet the flat is.

• 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 brush: $1,200 to 2,000 an acre by density.
• Woodlot understory with dead ash and callery pear: $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.

No mud surcharge on frozen ground, December through February. March and April on a Kokomo flat add a day or we wait, said before the price on every project. Large acreage clearing drops the rate. The half-acre lot we did in Plain City was one day, $2,500: the common job here. Call (740) 729-8625 with the acreage, or send the form; a budget range and two dates come by email before the end of the day.

Inside the city limits, Ohio EPA rule OAC 3745-19 bans open burning, so lot debris is mulch or haul. In Harrison or Etna Township a pile burns only more than 1,000 feet from a neighbor's house, with written notice to the Ohio EPA district office, and ODNR Forestry bans daytime fire in March, April and May and again in October and November. Kokomo and Crosby flats hold isolated wetlands and vernal pools: the Ohio EPA Level 1 permit is for fill, not for mulch, and an ORAM delineation comes before anything wet is touched. Clearing acreage needs no permit. A pad needs the county Building Code Department plus a township zoning certificate. Trees over 3 inches on more than an acre are an October 1 to March 31 job for the Indiana bat. The gas pipeline is marked by OUPS 811 before the excavator arrives.

Our land clearing company serving Pataskala covers Licking County, OH and the surrounding area. Etna and the I-70 warehouses south. Reynoldsburg and the Columbus metro west. Granville and the Newark area east, where till gives way to sandstone. Land clearing services throughout the Pataskala area are transport included from Delaware; land clearing projects across Central Ohio within 60 miles bill the same.

Our land clearing service in Pataskala starts with your photos and a soil map. Send the form or call (740) 729-8625. Before the end of the day you have a budget range and two dates by email. The on-site visit costs you nothing inside the Columbus area; I walk the property with you and flag the wet third. Residential and commercial properties get the same two dates and soil map. Land clearing FAQs follow.