Forestry Mulching in Flint, TX

Forestry Mulching in Flint

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 Flint

Flint is the unincorporated country southwest of Tyler along Old Jacksonville Highway (FM 2493), Hwy 155 and FM 346, and it is where South Tyler is growing fastest. Gresham on the north end runs straight into the city, Noonday is just down the road, Lake Palestine is a few minutes west, and the south end of Loop 49 has put all of it within an easy drive of town. The result is that wooded tracts that were pasture or timber for generations are being carved into acreage homesites, and every one of them has the same yaupon understory under the pines and post oaks. I spend a lot of my year in Flint. I open house pads and drives on new lots off FM 2493 and FM 346, mulch understory on tracts so the owner can walk them, clear the lots on the east side of Lake Palestine along Hwy 155 so there is a view, take down dead pines before a storm does it, and clear fence lines for the small horse places that are everywhere out here. The soil is deep sand, which makes mulching the right call: a chip layer keeps a fresh clearing from washing down the slope toward the lake. One operator, one machine, a per-acre or per-job price set after a walk.

• 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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