Clearing a building pad, opening pasture, cutting a driveway, or taking the brush back off forty acres. Describe the tract once and crews that run this work in your county bid on it sealed - no phone tree, no three separate site visits to get three numbers.
Crews here list themselves and bid directly. AXE USA does not clear land and is not a party to the contract you sign.
Three different jobs that get called land clearing on the phone. Bids are only comparable when every crew priced the same one, so pick the finish you actually need before you post.
Everything comes off, stumps included
Trees, brush, and stumps are cut, pushed, and hauled or burned. The ground finishes open and workable, which is what a builder, a septic installer, or a bank appraiser wants to see before anything else starts.
Standing growth becomes ground cover
A drum or disc mulcher grinds standing brush and small trees where they stand and leaves the chips on the ground. One machine, one pass, no burn pile and no hauling - which is usually why it costs less per acre than full clearing.
Ground made ready for what comes next
The finishing work after the timber or brush is gone: raking roots, ripping and bedding, chopping, spot-spraying competition, and shaping drainage so the tract drains where you want it to.
We do not publish a per-acre figure, because any number printed here would be wrong for most tracts. These are the variables a crew prices against - know yours and the bids you get back will be tight instead of hedged.
Per-acre cost usually falls as acreage rises - mobilizing a lowboy, a mulcher, and a crew costs the same whether they clear two acres or twenty. Long, narrow, or scattered pieces cost more than one square block of the same total size.
Thick brush and saplings mulch fast. Mature hardwood with 24-inch butts is a different job: bigger iron, slower going, and stumps that have to be dug rather than pushed. Density matters as much as size - stems per acre is what sets the pace.
Flat and dry is the cheap case. Side slopes, rock, wet bottoms, and creek crossings slow every machine on the tract and can force smaller equipment or a seasonal window when the ground is firm.
What happens to the wood is often the biggest line on the bill. Mulching in place costs the least. Burning needs a permit and a weather window. Grinding, chipping, or hauling to a landfill costs real money per load - ask which one a bid assumes.
A crew needs a way in for a truck and trailer, room to turn, and somewhere to stage. Locked gates, weight-limited bridges, soft field entrances, and neighbors’ easements all add hours before the first tree comes down.
Burn permits, erosion-control requirements, county grading rules, and wetland lines are the landowner’s to sort out on most jobs. A crew that has worked your county will tell you what it usually takes there - confirm it with the county yourself.
If your tract has grown timber on it rather than brush, some of it is probably merchantable. Sawtimber and pulpwood have buyers, and the value of the wood can offset part of a clearing bill - occasionally all of it.
The order matters. Once a dozer pushes a stand into a burn pile, the wood is gone and so is any offset. Post the harvest first, see what the timber draws, then clear what is left. Both requests run on the same sealed board, and both are free to post.
Merchantable volume with real buyers. Worth pricing as a harvest before you pay to have it pushed.
Below merchantable size in most markets. This is what mulching and chipping are for.
No timber value. Straight to mulching, and the cheapest of the three jobs per acre.
Read straight from live crew listings the moment this page loaded - land clearing, forestry mulching, site prep, and chipping. No footprint claim, no map with states colored in for looks.
Counting listed crews
The same sealed mechanic this site runs for timber sales, pointed at clearing work. Free for landowners, and no commission on what you award.
State, county, acreage, what is growing on it, and how a truck gets in. Posting is free for landowners - there is nothing to buy on this page.
Your request goes on the sealed-bid board. Crews working your area bid blind: nobody sees a competing number, including you, until the deadline you set passes.
When your window closes, every bid opens at once with the crew’s own contact details, insurance, and certifications as they reported them.
Compare the numbers, call the crews you like, and contract with whoever you choose. AXE USA takes no commission and is never a party to your contract.
What landowners ask before they post - including the two questions most clearing sites will not answer plainly.
Acreage, county, and what is growing on it is enough to start. Free to post, sealed until your deadline, and you hire whoever you want - or nobody at all.