Forestry Mulching in Canton, TX

Forestry Mulching in Canton

Forestry mulching is the right tool for most of East Texas, and it is the machine I run every day around Tyler. A tracked skid steer with a mulching head drives through standing brush, yaupon, briars, saplings and trees up to a moderate diameter and grinds them into chips on the spot. Nothing gets stacked, burned or hauled. The chips lie on the ground as a mulch layer that holds the sandy Smith County soil together, keeps the sun off the dirt so the yaupon is slower coming back, and lets you walk the property the same day. It is how I open up overgrown acreage in Lindale and Mineola, thin the understory on wooded homesites in Flint and Whitehouse, take pasture back from sweetgum around Canton and Athens, and clear trails and fence lines on timber tracts out toward Gilmer and Kilgore. Because there is no burn pile and no dump fee, it is almost always the cheapest way per acre to turn a thicket back into land you can use.

Land clearing in Canton

Canton is the Van Zandt County seat on I-20, 35 miles west of Tyler, and most of Texas knows it for First Monday Trade Days, the enormous monthly flea market that fills the north side of town. The rest of the month it is a quiet courthouse town surrounded by ranch and acreage country along Hwy 19, Hwy 64 and Hwy 243, with Mill Creek Lake on its south side. This is the western edge of the piney woods. The ground is sandy loam and the trees are post oak, hickory and scattered pine, and the brush that takes over a neglected place here is eastern red cedar, greenbriar and sweetgum rather than the solid yaupon of Smith County. I clear homesites and drives for people building around Canton, mulch cedar and brush off pasture that has grown shut, clear fence lines and property lines on ranchettes toward Edgewood, Ben Wheeler and Grand Saline, and open up wooded tracts people bought for the weekend. Cedar is good news for a landowner: it grinds easily and does not grow back from the stump, so a mulched pasture stays clear with a little shredding. One operator, one machine, priced by the acre or the job after I walk the place with you.

• Yaupon, briars, privet, sweetgum and small trees ground in place
• No burning, no windrows, no haul-off cost
• Mulch layer left behind to hold the sand and slow regrowth
• Mature pines, post oaks and shade trees left standing
• Overgrown acreage, homesites, pasture edges, trails and lanes
• The cheapest per-acre way to reclaim brushy East Texas land

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