Brush Removal in Jacksonville, TX

Yaupon, briars, privet and sweetgum scrub cleared off your lot or pasture so you can use it again.

Brush Removal in Jacksonville

Leave a piece of ground alone for three summers in Smith County and the brush owns it. Yaupon fills in head high, greenbriar ties it together, privet and young sweetgum push up through old pasture, and a lot you could once mow becomes a wall. Brush removal is getting that growth off the land and giving it back to you. Around Tyler I handle it two ways: mulching the brush in place, which is fastest and cheapest and leaves a clean layer of chips, or cutting and hauling it where you want the material gone, such as next to a house or on a finished lawn. I clear brush off overgrown lots in town, off acreage people have just bought in Lindale, Van and Chandler, around ponds and barns on ranchettes near Bullard and Whitehouse, and off pasture edges from Canton to Jacksonville. East Texas brush grows back thick and grows back fast, so I also tell you honestly what it takes to keep it down once it is gone.

Brush Removal in Jacksonville, TX

Land clearing in Jacksonville

Jacksonville is the biggest town in Cherokee County, about 30 miles south of Tyler on US-69, the old Tomato Capital with the Tomato Bowl downtown and Love’s Lookout on the ridge north of town looking out over miles of pine. Lake Jacksonville sits southwest of the city, US-79 runs east and west through it, and the land in every direction is deep East Texas timber on steep red clay hills. Cherokee County is thicker and hillier than Smith County: loblolly and shortleaf pine, red oak, hickory, sweetgum, and yaupon as dense as it gets. I clear homesites and drives on acreage off US-69 and US-79, underbrush lake lots at Lake Jacksonville, open up hunting and recreational tracts toward Rusk and New Summerfield, mulch fence lines and lanes on timber tracts, and clear hazard pines around homes before a storm does it. The clay hills here gully badly when they are stripped, so mulching in place is more than a preference. The chip layer holds the slope through the next hard rain, which a bare dozer cut never does. One operator, one machine, priced by the acre or the job after I walk the tract with you.

  • Yaupon, greenbriar, privet, sweetgum and scrub cleared
  • Overgrown lots, lake lots, pasture and ranchette ground reclaimed
  • Brush cleared back from homes, barns, ponds and drives
  • Mulched in place or cut and hauled, priced either way
  • Sight lines, trails and access reopened
  • A realistic plan for keeping it down afterward

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Brush Removal in Jacksonville

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Areas We Cover in Jacksonville

In town or out on a county road: if it’s in or around Jacksonville, I come to your property.

  • Lake Jacksonville
  • Love’s Lookout / US-69 North
  • US-79 East toward New Summerfield
  • US-79 West toward Frankston
  • Hwy 204 toward Rusk
  • Mt. Selman

Common Clearing Scenarios in Jacksonville

The land clearing jobs I see most around here, and how I handle them.

Steep clay hills that gully when bare

Cherokee County land is steeper and heavier than Smith County, and a bare-cleared hillside here washes into gullies after one storm. Mulching leaves a chip layer on the slope that holds the clay, which is why I clear in place instead of pushing and burning.

Lake Jacksonville lots grown shut

Lots around Lake Jacksonville fill in with yaupon and sweetgum down to the water. I underbrush them to open the view and a path to the lake and leave the pines and oaks that shade the lot.

Hunting tracts you cannot see into

Timber tracts toward Rusk and New Summerfield grow solid with yaupon under the pines. I mulch lanes, openings and the ground around a camp so you can hunt the place, and leave the thick cover where you want it.

Brush Removal in Jacksonville: FAQs

Do you come down to Jacksonville and Cherokee County?
Yes. Jacksonville is about 30 miles south of Tyler on US-69 and well inside my area. The acreage between Bullard, Jacksonville and Rusk is a regular part of my work.
My land is steep. Is a mulcher the right machine?
On Cherokee County hills it is the best machine there is. A tracked mulcher handles the slopes and leaves a chip layer that keeps the clay from washing. If a particular slope is too steep to work safely I tell you when we walk it.
How thick is too thick for the mulcher?
Yaupon and saplings are never too thick; that is what the machine is built for. Big pines and hardwoods are dropped and the stumps ground separately. The thicker the growth, the slower the acre, so I price it after seeing it rather than guessing.
What is the difference between brush removal and forestry mulching?
Mulching is one way to remove brush: grind it in place and leave chips. Brush removal is the broader job, which can also mean cutting the material and hauling it off when you want it gone completely. I do both and recommend whichever fits your lot, your budget and what you plan to do with the ground.
Can you clear the brush without hurting the trees I want to keep?
Yes. Clearing the understory while leaving the pines and post oaks standing is the most common request I get. I work around the trees you point out and keep the machine off their trunks and major roots.
How do I keep the brush from coming right back?
Yaupon and sweetgum resprout from the roots, so plan on maintenance: shred or bush hog once or twice a year, or re-mulch every couple of years, and the ground stays open. Where you need it permanently clean, root grubbing by a dirt contractor is the next step after I clear it. I will tell you which your land needs.

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