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

Land clearing in Wadsworth is more pasture reclaim than lot work, priced by the acre. Our land clearing service in Wadsworth covers brush clearing on fencerows and old fields, residential land clearing on wooded acre lots, selective clearing in oak-hickory woodlots, and commercial land clearing services on SR 94, with full site clearing to dirt where a pad is going. Kettering Brush & Land provides land clearing with insured crews on residential and commercial properties alike.

The land clearing process is the same on every project: free site visit, written range, then the machine the ground carries. Tree removal on dead ash is a separate line; the tops drop before the trunk is touched. Stump grinding is $4 for every inch of diameter, $150 minimum a stump, and a lot with ten or more we grind on a day rate. Excavation is $160 an hour. We leave the site raked; cleanup is in the day rate. We stop short of concrete, wells, septic and demolition.

Honeysuckle, autumn olive and brush removal near Wadsworth runs $1,200 to 2,000 an acre by density, and oak-hickory 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, so a reclaimed field is ready to mow the same season. The 2 to 4 inch mulch layer keeps the clay from washing in April.

Multiflora rose is the only fence in Ohio that builds itself. It roots where the canes touch, autumn olive resprouts from the crown, and both overgrow a bush-hogged field in two summers. The mulcher takes crown and cane together. 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. Same plants, same bill here. In areas with dense rose we remove brush in two passes.

Wadsworth reported two months of 2025 permits to the Census Building Permits Survey with no single-family starts in them, so the Census estimate stands in and the county count of 430 is the proxy. The lots we clear here are a wooded acre in Sharon Township or a half-acre at the city edge. Half an acre of lot clearing is one day of skid steer, $2,500; a quarter-acre infill lot is $1,700 flat. No mud surcharge on frozen ground; March and April add a day or we wait.

Site preparation follows: grubbing, rough grading, a swale where the clay holds water. Fourteen years on I-71 pads: frost goes 32 to 36 inches here, and a footing poured into thawing clay heaves by May. We hand off the site work at the footing. The same crews handle commercial development on commercial sites at I-76, with a county SWCD erosion plan over 1 acre. Property owners who want January send photos early.

Land clearing costs in Wadsworth start at $1,200 an acre for light brush and $2,500 for a skid steer day, plus transport from Delaware. The range is in writing before the trailer moves.

• Skid steer mulcher: $2,500 for the day, stems to 8 inches, transport from Delaware added.
• The 300-hp machine: $3,900 for the day plus transport, stems to 12 inches.
• Autumn olive, rose and brush by the acre: $1,200 to 2,000. Woodlot understory with dead ash: $1,800 to 2,600.
• To bare dirt with the stumps out: $2,800 to 5,000 an acre. Large acreage clearing is a day rate.
• Stumps: $4 an inch of diameter, $150 minimum each. Grubbing, grading and site prep: $160 an hour with operator.
• Hauling: $600 to 1,100 a load. Mulched in place costs less.

The bill depends on the size of the field and the month; the same acre prices differently depending on site access in January and April. Call (740) 729-8625 with the acreage and photos, and the budget range is in your email before the end of the day.

No open burning of land-clearing brush inside Wadsworth city limits, under Ohio EPA rule OAC 3745-19. Township burning needs 1,000 feet from a neighbor's house, written notice to Ohio EPA and ODNR's night-only hours in spring and fall, so nearly everything is mulched in place or hauled. 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.

Wet pockets in the old pasture can be isolated wetlands; the Ohio EPA isolated wetland permit is triggered by fill, not by clearing; a Level 1 covers up to half an acre, and we walk the property, flag the wet ground and file it with you. The creeks here drain to the Tuscarawas and the USACE Huntington District. Indiana bat season runs October 1 to March 31, and trees over 3 inches on a tract over 1 acre wait for it. Drainage on old fields means unmarked tile; OUPS 811 is called before grubbing and we probe for tile or a gas pipeline.

Kettering Brush & Land is a land clearing company serving Wadsworth, OH and the surrounding area from Delaware: Medina, Norton, Rittman and Doylestown, the Medina area townships, and the south edge of the Cleveland metro. Land clearing services across greater Cleveland and services throughout northeast Ohio share one trailer; two days in the Wadsworth area cost less per acre than one. Site conditions change at the plateau edge: Rittman and Doylestown are tiled farm ground, Norton is ridge.

Overgrown land on the plateau gets a density 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. I email you a budget range and two dates before the end of the day. The on-site visit is free.