Forestry Mulching in Gilmer, TX

Forestry Mulching in Gilmer

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 Gilmer

Gilmer is the Upshur County seat, about 35 miles northeast of Tyler where Hwy 155, Hwy 271 and Hwy 300 meet, a courthouse town famous for the East Texas Yamboree every October and surrounded by some of the heaviest pine timber in the region. Lake Gilmer sits northwest of town, Lake O’ the Pines is a short drive east, and the hills from Big Sandy up through Pritchett and Union Grove are loblolly and shortleaf pine, red oak and sweetgum on red sandy clay, with a yaupon understory and poultry houses tucked into the clearings. This is timber country first. The tracts I clear around Gilmer are hunting and recreational land, homesites carved out of family timber, pasture that was let go and has come back in sweetgum and pine seedlings, and long fence lines on ranch ground that have grown shut. I underbrush tracts so the owner can walk and hunt them, open homesites and drives while keeping the big pines, mulch sweetgum back off pasture, clear fence rows and lanes, and take out the storm-damaged and beetle-killed pines that lean toward a house or a chicken house. The clay hills gully when they are stripped, so mulching in place is how I work here. One operator, one machine, a per-acre or per-job price set after I walk the land 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

Need forestry mulching elsewhere? See all of my Gilmer services or forestry mulching across Tyler.