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

Kettering Brush & Land provides land clearing for lots, acreage and woodlots across the Sunbury area. Residential land clearing in Sunbury is mostly honeysuckle and dead ash around a house site. Commercial land clearing services cover commercial sites along US 36, where commercial development wants a full site to dirt before the pad. Property clearing on a farm woodlot and land improvement on CAUV hay ground use the same machines. Brush removal, tree removal, stump grinding, cleanup, and grading only where the mulcher leaves a rough spot. Excavation, concrete, wells and septic I refer out. Our insured crews work the ground I learned in fourteen years building pads along I-71: silt loam over till clay, wet until it freezes. Most land clearing projects here come down to which machine.

Forestry mulching is a land clearing method that uses specialized equipment to grind trees, honeysuckle and other vegetation into mulch where they stand. The skid steer mulcher takes stems to about 8 inches and runs $2,500 a day. Brush clearing by the acre is $1,200 to 2,000 by density. Honeysuckle resprouts from the crown, so a bush hog alone buys you one summer. The mulcher shreds the crown and leaves a 3-inch mulch layer that holds regrowth down. It is the fastest way to clear areas with dense honeysuckle. A 3-acre honeysuckle woodlot outside Sunbury took our crew a day and a half with the skid steer. $3,800. Honeysuckle holds its leaves into February like it has something to prove. We clear it best that month, on frozen ground. Selective clearing leaves the oak. We remove brush and dead ash, nothing else.

The Census Building Permits Survey shows 35 single-family permits for Sunbury in 2025, a Census estimate, since the village reported zero months. Lot clearing for a new home is one day on a half acre: $2,500 with the skid steer. A quarter-acre infill lot in the village is $1,700 flat. Site prep means site clearing to dirt, stumps out, a rough grade: the site work the builder wants. Site preparation under an acre needs no stormwater plan; at 1 acre the Ohio EPA construction permit and a Delaware SWCD review come in. On a lot in Galena last spring the drainage tile was running at 30 inches, so we grubbed the dry end first. Send the plat with the photos.

Land clearing costs in Sunbury run $1,200 to 5,000 an acre. The spread depends on the size of the stems and what stays.

• Skid steer forestry mulcher: $2,500 a day, transport included within 60 miles.
• 300-hp mulcher: $3,900 a day plus transport.
• Honeysuckle and brush: $1,200 to 2,000 per acre by density.
• Mixed woodlot understory with dead ash: $1,800 to 2,600 per acre.
• Full clearing to dirt with stumps: $2,800 to 5,000 per acre.
• Stump grinding: $4 per inch, $150 minimum per stump. Ten or more, we grind by the day.
• Grubbing: $160 an hour with operator. Haul-off: $600 to 1,100 per 10-yard load.

Frozen ground, December through February, carries no mud surcharge. March and April add a day or we wait. I say that before the price on every project. Large acreage clearing gets cheaper by the acre: 15 acres of pasture on a farm in Knox County ran $11,700 plus transport. Call (740) 729-8625 with the acreage and the photos, and I email you a budget range and two dates before the end of the day.

Burning is out inside Sunbury and Galena corporation limits under the Ohio EPA open burning rule, OAC 3745-19. Outside the village it 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 burning March through May and in October and November. Most lots are mulch or haul. The Kokomo flats hold isolated wetland pockets. Fill triggers the Ohio EPA permit, mulching does not; a Level 1 covers up to half an acre. Clearing on acreage needs no permit. A house pad needs Delaware County Building Safety plus a township zoning certificate. Trees over 3 inches on tracts over an acre come down October 1 to March 31 for the Indiana bat unless a USFWS survey clears the site. OUPS 811 marks the gas pipeline before any grubbing. Tile is not marked.

Our land clearing company serving Sunbury works the Big Walnut and Alum Creek side of Delaware County, OH and the surrounding area. Galena and the Hoover Reservoir lots. The north edge of Westerville. Johnstown across the Licking line, where the Intel traffic runs now. Centerburg and the Knox County farm woodlots I grew up around. Our crews run land clearing services throughout the 60-mile circle, transport included, Columbus metro to the county line.

A free on-site estimate covers the Columbus area and most woodlots across Central Ohio. Our land clearing service in Sunbury starts with photos. Send the form or call (740) 729-8625. I check the soil map myself and email you a budget range and two dates before the end of the day. Residential and commercial properties get the same two numbers. The land clearing FAQs I hear most are below.