Forestry Mulching in Van, TX

Forestry Mulching in Van

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 Van

Van is a small Van Zandt County town on I-20 between Lindale and Canton, best known for the Van oil field that was discovered under it in 1929 and still has pumpjacks nodding in the pastures around town. Hwy 110 runs north from the interstate through Van, FM 314 runs south toward Edom, and the land on all sides is a mix of sandy pasture, post oak and pine woods, and old lease ground that nobody has cleared since the oil boom. It is cheaper than Lindale and Tyler and an easy run to Dallas on I-20, so acreage around Van is moving. I clear homesites and drives for people building out here, mulch understory on wooded tracts off Hwy 110 and FM 314, clear fence lines and reopen lease roads and pipeline rights-of-way on old oil field acreage, and take back pasture that has gone to sweetgum, briars and cedar. The ground is sandy and the brush comes back fast, so I lean on mulching: it clears everything in a pass, leaves chips on the ground instead of bare sand, and costs less per acre than a push-and-burn clear. Per-acre or per-job price, set after I walk the tract 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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